search and rescue

Dog Unit sees missing persons increase during coronavirus crisis

IDU Commander: 'We're stepping up training, readying more rescue teams, as well as continuing searching for missing people.'

IDU continues missing person search despite coronavirus crisis

Search crews continue to spearhead search for 24 year old Asaf Brooke, who went missing on March 11; Search today focused on open areas.

Breakthrough?

Day 18 in search for Meshulam Zusha Brandwein in Judean Desert

Breakthrough find of Zusha's shirt, pants, belt, parts of his guitar. Family suspects Zusha kidnapped or killed by Arabs who last saw him.

'Rambo' enters building where Barkan terrorist barricaded self

Search dog combs building in which Barkan terrorist barricaded himself. Shots heard from building and Rambo emerges wounded, but alive.

Resourceful lost couple leave message in desert sand

Couple lost in Negev in dangerous heat make SOS signal out of stones to allow rescue aircraft to find them.

Police still searching for missing truck driver

Police, rescue units, continue search for truck driver who went missing during flash flood.

Dog Unit volunteer saves Beit Shemesh man's life

Exhausted, fasting volunteers forego rest, food, holiday celebration to search for man given up for dead, but who now recovers in hospital.

Israeli rescue team fails to find Canadian man missing in Peru

Foul play suspected. 'The Israelis are fairly certain that they didn’t find him because someone doesn’t want us to find him.'

Why this Filipina is fighting for Israel

IDF Soldier from Philippines to be honored for distinguished service, joined IDF after army rescued her grandmother

Bodies of two of the missing found in Kinneret

Search teams find two bodies, continue searching for third.

Watch: 669 to the rescue

"Anyone who saves one life, has saved a world" - IDF rescue unit 669 works daily to save injured soldiers and civilians.

Two Israelis missing in Argentina rescued

Search and rescue teams locate pair of Israeli tourists after they failed to return from trek along lagoon in Ushuaia.

IDF resumes search for missing soldier Guy Hever

Divers searching in Golan water reservoirs. Senior IDF official says there is no new information on his whereabouts.

Watch: Soldiers of IDF's Elite Unit 669 Finish Their Training

First-person footage shows new recruits to elite search and rescue unit complete training on land, sea and air.

Nepal: Searches for Missing Or Assraf Continue

Assraf family hopes for second shot of good luck for missing son in Nepal who also survived shrapnel injuries during Protective Edge.

Elderly Man Discovered at Last Minute with Hypothermia

An elderly man from central Israel is in serious condition after getting lost, spending the entire night outside.

IDF Sends Rescue Team to Ghana

The IDF's Home Front Command sent a rescue team Thursday morning to Accra, Ghana following the collapse of a six-story mall.