Back Israeliese Verdedigingsmagte Afrikaans الجيش الإسرائيلي Arabic جيش الدفاع الإسرائيلى ARZ Fuercies de Defensa d'Israel AST İsrail Silahlı Qüvvələri Azerbaijani Израелски отбранителни сили Bulgarian ইসরায়েলি সেনাবাহিনী Bengali/Bangla Tsahal Breton Forces de Defensa d'Israel Catalan ھێزەکانی بەرگریی ئیسرائیل CKB
The Israel Defense Forces (shortened: IDF) (Hebrew: צבא ההגנה לישראל) 
Tzva HaHagana LeYisrael (help·info)), "Army for the Defense of Israel", known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym צה"ל, (Tzahal), is the name of Israel's military forces. It includes the Israel Army, Israel Air Force and Israel Navy.
Since 1967, it 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]
- ↑ Mahler, Gregory S. (1990). Israel After Begin. SUNY Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-7914-0367-9.
- ↑ There are a wide range of estimates as to the size of the Israeli nuclear arsenal. For a compiled list of estimates, see Avner Cohen, The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's bargain with the Bomb (Columbia University Press, 2010), Table 1, page xxvii and page 82.