Israel's military is called the Israel Defense Forces (shortened: IDF) (Hebrew: צָבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל) Tzva HaHagana LeYisrael^ⓘ), "Army for the Defense of Israel". It is known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym צה"ל, (Tzahal). It includes the Israel Army, Air Force, and Navy.

Since 1967, the IDF has had a close relationship with the United States.^[1] The IDF is believed to have maintained nuclear weapons, possibly possessing between 80 and 400 nuclear warheads.^[2]

The army has the following corps:

Ground Arm

• Infantry Corps
  • 1st Golani Brigade
  • 35th Paratroopers Brigade
  • 84th Nahal Brigade
  • 89th Commando Brigade
  • 900th Kfir Brigade
  • 933rd Givati Brigade
• Armored corps
  • 7th Sa'ar Armored Brigade
  • 188th Barak Armored Brigade
  • 401st Ikvot HaBarzel Armored Brigade
  • 460th Sons of Light Armored Brigade
• Artillery Corps
• Combat Engineering Corps
• Combat Intelligence Collection Corps

• Official website Archived 2020-09-27 at the Wayback Machine (in English)

  Official website (in Hebrew)

• BBC: Israel undercover
• Israeli Weapons Archived 2018-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
• Statistics about IDF ratio of thwarting suicide bombing attacks Archived 2004-03-31 at the Wayback Machine (link to DOC file)
• Defense-Update Online Magazine
• Haaretz report: "From 40 attacks per quarter to 5 attacks per quarter":English Archived 2004-04-20 at the Wayback Machine - Hebrew Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine - Graph 1: Thwarted attacks (yellow) vs successful attacks (red) - Graph 2: Suicide bombing within the "green line" per quarter .
• War Online - military analysis and military history of the Middle East, especially IDF (in Russian and English)
• The Israeli Military and Israel's Palestinian Policy: From Oslo to the Al Aqsa Intifada Archived 2006-08-14 at the Wayback Machine U.S. Institute of Peace, December 2002
• Israel Military Forum Archived 2018-03-20 at the Wayback Machine