Nahal Brigade

About two years have passed since the day the Moyal family's heart was broken, when Shaul, a father of 10, fell in battle in southern Lebanon. His son Yehuda was drafted a few months later, and last week he closed a circle: he recited Kaddish at the spot where his father was killed, in a video that went viral. "I am continuing his path," he says in a special interview. "He chose to be at the...

After losing two friends in the battles in Gaza, the fighters of the "Retek" platoon of the 932nd Battalion are dealing with another tragedy: the death of their friend Uriel Gethon, who took his own life due to PTSD. The friends reveal their feelings of guilt, anger, and frustration with the military mental health system and warn: "The army needs to start seeing those who are alive."

Just 3 months after operating in the northern sector, the 931st Battalion of the Nahal Brigade is holding a tense sector in Judea and Samaria. Between arresting wanted persons and locating weapons, the battalion went out for an intensive exercise in Nahal Kana: "Simulates Lebanon in the best way." The new battalion commander, Lt. Col. N., in a special interview about dealing with the threat of...

As part of our special report series, we accompanied new recruits joining the Kfir and Nahal brigades. "The feeling when you see people ready to give their lives to protect the country, and how much desire and will they have—you don't find that in any other country, it's only in Israel," said Itay, who is enlisting in the Kfir brigade.

Hundreds of new recruits are joining the Nahal Brigade today, whose soldiers have operated on the Gaza and Lebanon fronts since October 7 and suffered heavy losses. The brigade commander welcomed the new arrivals: "You are arriving during a historic period."