Posts Tagged: Recruitment
Israeli Army Revamps Screening for Recruits to Make Better Matches, Factor in Resilience and Skills
The Israeli army is revamping the way it tests and screens soldiers for enlistment, embarking on a new path to increase motivation and minimize dropouts. “Any...
Why Religious Terrorist Groups Are Often the Hardest to Defeat
Religious terrorist organizations, primarily Islamist groups, are far more likely than other ideologically-motivated groups to launch and fight a sustained insurgency, a new study shows. Most...
How Hezbollah Recruits Palestinian Terrorists
A lot of attention has been devoted to the Islamic State's use of the Internet to inspire or direct international terrorist attacks. But little has...
Why Hezbollah Truly Threatens Israel
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah recently issued a new threat to Israel's cities and sensitive sites, boasting of his terror organization's ability to hit targets deep...
Radical Muslim Inmates Rule UK Prisons
One group of radicalized Muslims dominates the UK prison system, Britain's Ministry of Justice found in a study of prison gangs released earlier this month. The...
Hamas’ Shameful Conscription of the Media
Israel on Wednesday formally designated Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas' main media outlet, as a terrorist organization. Israeli authorities revealed last month that Hamas recruiters posing as journalists...
A Budding West Bank Hamas Cell Sought to Cause Major Bloodshed
Israel's Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency recently announced that it had broken up an extraordinarily dangerous secret terrorist network that Hamas was building in the...
Belgium Fights Islamic Terror, While the UK Enables It
Of late, most of Europe has focused its counter-terrorism efforts on handling the potential jihadi returnees from Syria and possible radicals hiding among migrants from...
Shin Bet Investigation Exposes Depth of Turkey’s Hamas Support
Hamas is operating freely on Turkish soil, gathering terrorist finances and looking for ways to upgrade the capabilities of its armed wing in Gaza, an Israeli...
Iran’s Ongoing Attempt to Set Up a West Bank Terrorist Outpost Exposed
Israeli security forces have uncovered a significant Iranian attempt to infiltrate the West Bank -- and use it as a base for launching terrorist attacks...
Expensive ‘Bride Price’ May Offer Another Lure to Jihad
Some men join dating sites when looking for a wife. Other men join terror groups. In many North African, Middle Eastern and Asian countries, bride price -- a...
Converts and Jihad
Muslim converts have long been especially valued by recruiters for Islamist terror groups. "Their ability to operate freely in Europe, Asia and North America without...
Converts and Terrorist Recruitment: The Real Jihadist Threat
Most people can tell you who the potential jihadists are -- especially the ones in Europe and the US. You can point them out in a group:...
Women Represent a New Threat in ISIS’ Strategy
This is Laura Hansen's story. It may also be the story of the future of Islamic terrorists in the West. Born and raised in the quiet Dutch...
