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History of the Israel Defense Forces

This article covers the founding and history of the Israel Defense Forces. Through 2005 the opening quoted the IDF's mandate "to protect the inhabitants of Israel and to combat all forms of terrorism which threaten daily life." Today the opening carries none of that founding mandate; the word survives eight times in the body. A reader today learns only that the IDF's history is intertwined with the Haganah's, and not that combating terrorism was written into the IDF's own stated founding purpose.
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The history of the Israel Defense Forces is intertwined with history of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 .1 The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were formed following the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948 to "defend the existence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the state of Israel" and "to protect the inhabitants of Israel and to combat all forms of terrorism which threaten daily life". The predecessors to the IDF were the Haganah (in particular, its operative detachment, the Palmach ) and the British armed forces, in particular the Jewish Brigade that fought as part of the British army during World War II . After the establishment of the IDF, the two Jewish guerilla armies, the Irgun and Stern gang came under control of the IDF. But they were allowed to operate independently in Jerusalem until the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war after which they eventually disbanded.2

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  • The first Arab–Israeli war 1,705 characters
  • The 1956 Sinai campaign 1,652 characters
  • The 1967 Six-Day War 2,284 characters
  • The 1968–1970 War of Attrition 797 characters
  • The 1973 Yom Kippur War 3,041 characters
  • 1982 Operation Peace for Galilee 1,633 characters
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