Israeli Civil Defense Use of M1 Carbines

I just came across this picture, which led me to more. I'll attach more pictures Tomorrow. Most all the pictures have no caption.

This one shows a Israeli kindergarten teacher carrying an M1 carbine while taking the kids on a field trip to the local art museum.

The information I've found stated that various civilian defense forces now use the carbine after it had been phased out by Police and non-front line IDF support units.

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We talked about this a couple years ago too, it sounds like the ones carrying them now are more like a neighborhood watch sort of group. We have a member here that was IDF or some offshoot...he was talking about it. Wonder why she couldn't get the mag pouch any further down...

Even a suicide bomber doesn't really want to get shot, even by accident. I have no doubt she would shoot.

It is part of their doctrine.
Join the Army and get trained, for one day you may need to call on that training to save lives!! Every Isreali citizen bears arms and for good reason, noone can live in peace in that region!

If you ever get time to read up on the Palestine Conflict, us Brits have a lot to answer for!!
British Gunboat diplomacy at its best:rolleyes:

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Working with countries of the area since the mid-nineties I must say that I really like Israel and the way they can live and cope with the horrible situation they are in.
What I can not understand is the hatred against them in the western world, but that would draw us into politics, which shall stay out in order to stay all friends.
Armed citizens are not so common if you stay in cities or at least far away from settlements, from the borders to the Palestinian territories and from the most exposed Kibbutzes. There are actually very few armed people, military personnel, armoured vehicles and so on. You really don't recognise the place if you only know it from the TV news.
I actually have always felt quite safe there.
Once I even crossed the land border between Jordan and Israel for a little "mistake" made by my Jordanian customer and had a striking experience. It was like passing from a place in shambles into Switzerland.
If you also consider that I had just been kept under a "soft" form of arrest in Jordan because of a wrong stamp on my passport (put by a donkey at the airport at 3AM who was reading a magazine, as shown from the cameras of the immigration booth). 6 hours without anybody speaking any understandable language (and I speak quite a few) and with a very discreet armed guard always in sight and my passport just being taken from a place to another and then back and forth again.......
Once through the border, the Israelis were very curious to understand why an Italian businessman was entering Israel from a land passage and not by air.
I have been very skilfully questioned by 4 different people for at least one hour, my luggage dissected and, at the end of the ordeal, welcomed to Israel.
Never learned so much in a single business trip, but the most important lesson has been: never listen to your local customers in countries around Israel when you need to go to Israel. Do the things the simple and safe way. Take a damned plane!:madsmile:

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https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=53435&page=1

Note: By clicking on the link, you may see a picture you've seen before. I'm following up trying to show use of our carbine by other nations.

Here is the link I pulled the picture from. It will show other arms, so you have to sift thru to see the M1 carbines.

Photos | The IDF Carbine

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While I can usually find beauty in women from any country for some reason the women from Israel have some sort of earthy beauty that cannot be equaled anywhere else.

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Originally Posted by browningautorifle

We talked about this a couple years ago too, it sounds like the ones carrying them now are more like a neighborhood watch sort of group. We have a member here that was IDF or some offshoot...he was talking about it. Wonder why she couldn't get the mag pouch any further down...

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I remember some of those old threads too, Jim. I have that same picture of the teacher on the field trip with her class - but without the IDF image affixed to it. It looks like it's easy to confuse the use of M1 Carbines in Israel with the "AR" type Carbines. I think this might be one of the older threads you were thinking of: https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=15885 - Bob

jonnyc, That was the member...

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While I can usually find beauty in women from any country for some reason the women from Israel have some sort of earthy beauty that cannot be equaled anywhere else.

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I wouldn’t throw away the Lebanese, my friend...

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jonnyc, That was the member...

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Yup, that was me. I reread my previous posts on the subject and wouldn't add or delete anything.
And Bruce.....it's all about the guns.

The Neighborhood watch is "Mash Az." They are a volunteer arm of the police, and are essentially a neighborhood watch with guns. I have many photos of Carbines in Israel, but they are stuck in photobucket. I'll pull them when I have time, and move them to IMGUR so I can post here. If you think about it, the M1 Carbine is a natural for the job, since it was designed as a PDW for US troops who were not assaulting enemy positions. A testimony to its effectiveness is that it went from being a PDW to an offensive arm by the end of the war, and through into Vietnam.

Soooo many beautiful women....ah I mean weapons, weapons in Israel. Just look at those women caring A1, M4, 30 cal. carbines. A man can't go wrong there now can he.

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Originally Posted by Bruce McAskill

Soooo many beautiful women....ah I mean weapons, weapons in Israel. Just look at those women caring A1, M4, 30 cal. carbines. A man can't go wrong there now can he.

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Unless he crosses one of those gun toting women!!!

""Mash Az."" It's actually Mish"Az, actually spelled like that in the original Hebrew, and it stands for Mishmar"Ezrachit, or Civilian Guard. The "ch" in Ezrachit has that throat-clearing guttural sound.