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Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel

LC control no.n 80009942
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingIsrael. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel
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Variant(s)I.D.F.
IDF
Israel. Army
Israel. Defence Army
Israel. Defence Forces
Israel Defense Forces
Israel. Defense Forces
Israel. Ejército
Israel. Jaysh al-Difāʻ al-Isrāʼīlī
Israel. Tsahal
Israel. Tseva haganah
Israel. Tzahal
Israel. Zahal
Israel. Ẓeva Haganah le-Israel
Israeli Defense Force
Israeli Defense Forces
Tsahal
Tzahal
Zahal
צבא
צבא הגנה לישראל
צה׳׳ל
ישראל. צבא הגנה לישראל
ישראל. צבא ההגנה לישראל
Israel. Tzva haganah le-Yisraʼel
See alsoComponent of merger: Haganah (Organization)
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Beginning date1948
Associated countryIsrael
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found inPearlman, M. The army of Israel, 1950.
Pàil, M. Min ha-Haganah li-Tseva haganah, 1979: t.p. (Tseva haganah) t.p. verso (Zahal (I.D.F.) [in rom.]) p. 13 (Tsahal)
Encyc. Judaica, 1971 (Israel Defense Forces; Hebrew, Ẓeva Haganah le-Israel, abbr. Ẓahal)
al-Awāmir al-ʻaskarīyah al-Isrāʼīlīyah, 1986: v. 1, p. 29 (Jaysh al-Difāʻ al-Isrāʼīlī)
Tzahal, c2006.
Presence of openly gay soldiers in IDF does not undermine unit social cohesion, 2010: p. 1 (Israeli Defense Force (IDF)) p. 2 (Israeli Defense Forces)
Britannica online, February 28, 2023 (Haganah, (Hebrew: "Defense"), Zionist military organization representing the majority of the Jews in Palestine from 1920 to 1948; By order of the provisional government of Israel (May 31, 1948) the Haganah as a private organization was dissolved and became the national army of the state. Its name is perpetuated in the official name of the Israeli armed services, Tzva Haganah le-Yisraʼel ("Israel Defense Forces"))
Wikipedia, February 28, 2023 (Haganah (Hebrew: ההגנה = ha-Haganah, lit. The Defence) was the main Zionist paramilitary organization of the Jewish population ("Yishuv") in Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and its disestablishment in 1948, when it became the core of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF); on May 28, 1948, less than two weeks after the creation of the state of Israel on May 15, the provisional government created the Israel Defense Forces, merging the Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi)