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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former solider Gilad Shalit recently met with the families of several Israelis kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 and shared with them how he endured five years as a hostage of the Gaza-ruling ...

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 ...

Newly released Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit began his first full day as a free man by taking a stroll Wednesday with his mother. And he had a big smile on his face. “Gilad feels good,” his dad ...

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.

Looking pale, thin and emotional, Gilad Shalit was reunited with his family Tuesday after more than five years in captivity. Now he faces what is likely to be a bewildering few days, weeks and ...

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 ...