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Military Organization; pre-1948 right-wing terrorist organization
     
    fashla, fashlot (pl.) slang for “blunder”
     
    FLIR forward-looking infrared; a night-vision system for aircraft and helicopters
     
    FOSH (Plugot Sadeh) Field Companies; organized by Hagana in 1937-1938
     
    GADNA (Gdudei Noar) Youth Battalions; a paramilitary organization for youths run by the IDF
     
    gafir, gafirim (pl.) Jewish police officer working for the British authorities
     
    Galil Israeli-made assault rifle
     
    garin, garinim (pl.) “cores” of NACHAL youths earmarked for new settlements
     
    gesher ha-glilim roller bridge used in the 1973 October War to cross the Suez Canal
     
    GHQ general headquarters
     
    Gush Emunim Bloc of the Faith; a group of extreme right-wing nationalist Jews in the Occupied Territories
     
    hachshara, hachsharot (pl.) PALMACH training group
     
    HAGA (Hagana Ezrachit) Civil Defense Organization
     
    Hagana Defense; the Jewish self-defense force in Palestine before 1948
     
    hagana merchavit territorial defense
     
    Ha-shomer The Guard; the second Jewish self-defense organization in Palestine after Bar Giora
     
    Histadrut Labor Federation
     
    IAF Israel Air Force
     
    IAI Israel Aircraft Industries
     
    IDF Israeli Defense Force
     
    KABA (Kvutsat-echut) Quality Group; a system of classifying recruits by quality
     
    KABAN, KABANIM (pl.) (ktsin beriut nefesh) mental health officer
     
    Kfir Lion Cub; the Israeli-built light fighter-bomber
     
    kibbuts, kibbutsim (pl.) communal settlement where all property is held in common
     
    kippot sruggot literally, “knitted yarmulkes”; the nickname for right-wing nationalist orthodox Jews
     
    Knesset the Israeli parliament
     
    kofer ha-yishuv the Yishuv ’s ransom; the tax imposed by the Jewish community in Palestine in 1929
     
    Lavi Young Lion; the Israeli-built fighter-bomber that never flew
     
    LECHI (Lochame Cherut Yisrael) Israel’s Freedom Fighters; a pre-1948 right-wing terrorist organization
     
    LIC low intensity conflict
     
    Likud Unity; the right-wing political party that has dominated Israel during most of the years since 1977
     
    Maarachot Campaigns ; the IDF’s periodical (monthly)
     
    maarav, maaravim (pl.) ambush
     
    MABAT (Mifalim Bitchoniyim) Defense Plants; an arms-manufacturing subsidiary of IAI
     
    MADAS, MADASit (fem.) Madrich Sport; a physical training instructor
     
    maoz, meozim (pl.) bunker
     
    MAFCHASH (Mifkedet Kochot Ha-sadeh) ground forces headquarters
     
    MAFDAL (Miflaga Datit Leumit) National Religious Party
     
    MAPAI (Mifleget Poale Erets Yisrael) Workers’ Party of the Land of Israel; ancestor of the modern Labor Party
     
    mateh staff
     
    MATKAL (Mateh Klali) General Staff
     
    mechdal oversight
     
    Merkava Chariot; an Israeli-built tank
     
    milchemet brera “war of choice”; the biblical term sometimes used in modern Israel to describe a war in which it took the initiative
     
    mirdaf, mirdafim (pl.) pursuit
     
    Mishmar Ha-gvul Frontier Guard
     
    Mispenot Yisrael Israeli Shipyards
     
    mistanen, mistanenim (pl.) infiltrators
     
    Moav (Moab) long-range UAV reportedly being considered by the IDF for combating surface-to-surface missiles
     
    MLRS multiple rocket launching system
     
    MOS military occupation specialty
     
    moshav different types of communal settlements in which the land, but not agricultural implements, are owned in common
     
    Mossad Institution; Israel’s foreign secret service
     
    NACHAL (Noar Chalutsi Lochem) Fighting-Pioneer Youth, the army’s corps of pioneers in uniform
     
    NAGMASH, NAGMASHim (pl.) ( nose geyasot meshuryan ) armored personnel carrier
     
    NAGMASHA, NAGMASHot (pl.) ( noset geyasot meshuryenet ) heavy armored personnel carrier on tank chassis
     
    NCO noncommissioned officer
     
    NILI (Netsach Yisrael Lo Yeshaker) Israel Will Live Forever; Jewish espionage ring in Palestine during World War I
     
    noter, notrim (pl.) Jewish police officer working for the British