Newly released Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit smartly saluted his commander in chief Tuesday after he set foot on Israeli soil for the first time in five years. “Hello, Gilad,” Prime Minister ...

Gilad Shalit was a 19-year-old enlisted man guarding an Israeli army post when Palestinian militants attacked his tank, killed the two men he was serving with and took him prisoner. Since then ...

That is exactly what happened last week in Israel. In 2006, a 19-year-old from northern Israel named Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas in a cross-border raid. Two Israeli soldiers were killed in ...

July 2005 - Begins his military service with IDF’s tank corps. June 25, 2006 - Shalit is captured by Palestinian militants. June 28, 2006 - Israel launches a military incursion into southern ...

Next month will mark ten years since Gilad Shalit was released from his Hamas captors. "The State is the one who gave me hope. I knew I was going to be released a week before it happened," Shalit ...

Gilad Shalit was a 19-year-old enlisted man guarding an Israeli army post when Palestinian militants attacked his tank, killed the two men he was serving with and took him prisoner more than five ...

Gilad Shalit was "in better shape than what we had feared," Zvi Shalit reportedly added. In the television interview, Shalit said he found out a week ago that he was to be released.

A lawmaker from the haredi Orthodox Shas Party said Gilad Shalit should have spent his first Shabbat of freedom not at the beach but praying in synagogue. Gilad Shalit’s release from more than ...

Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held captive for the past five years, had been reached. The exact timing of the actual exchange is still unclear, but could be as soon as next week. As Joel ...

Former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit wrote in an open letter that all Israelis should demand that the United States free jailed spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard. Israeli officials have said ...