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The Israel Dog Unit (IDU)
Saving Lives in Israel with Service Dogs, Drones and More!
Search & Rescue and Security
The Israel Dog Unit (IDU) is a national civilian canine corps that specializes in Search and Rescue and Security operations using service dogs, drones, foot patrols, ATVs and horses, while employing cutting-edge, proprietary technologies to find, rescue and protect Jewish lives. We operate in both urban and wildland settings to locate missing persons stranded in even the harshest environments. We integrate seamlessly with all civilian and government agencies, including the police, army and other emergency services, such as MADA, ZAKA, Hatzala, Yedidim and more.
Michlelet Magen Eretz Yisrael, the IDU’s state-of-the-art national headquarters and training campus is located in Kfar Tapuach, where dogs and handlers drill daily to update and hone their skills, and drone operators are instructed at both fundamental and advanced levels in deploying the latest technology to locate missing persons. Many of our volunteers reside on the Tapuach base, available 24/7 year-round to respond to any contingency.
In addition to the unit’s main base and training center in Kfar Tapuach, the IDU also maintains a second facility in the Galilee, adjacent to Tzfat and Mount Meron, further enhancing its ability to respond immediately to any emergency that might arise.
A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE
However, a stroll about the unit’s campus in Tapuach reveals more than just volunteers, staff and a regular cohort of curious visitors. Lone soldiers and new olim to Israel can also be found there, all of whom find time to contribute meaningfully to the betterment and smooth running of the IDU’s indispensable life-saving operations.
Beyond its long inventory of professional achievements, the Israel Dog Unit also prides itself on the success it has logged in turning numerous at-risk youth into mature and responsible citizens who excel as both dog handlers and drone operators – many of whom have moved on from the unit to build successful careers and families, spurred on by the discipline, experience and grit they learned from the IDU’s demanding daily regimen.
The unit also conducts free dog shows for individuals with special needs, as well as children whose families are victims of Arab terror or who have been orphaned as result of the most recent conflicts in the State of Israel.
OUR PARTNERS AND COLLEAGUES
The IDU’s rapid response teams are on call to deploy immediately upon request from the Israel Police, the IDF, the Fire Department or families of missing persons who require critical assistance in locating their loved ones.
They also respond to urgent requests for security relief, and have an established record of tracking and disabling terrorists before they’re able to claim innocent lives.
The unit’s distinguished history and reputation are built on the close ties it maintains with its local strategic partners as well as colleagues and experts from around the world, relationships that the IDU regularly leverages to offer seminars and workshops in dog training, first aid, tracking, fieldcraft and self-defense.
If you want to become a part by volunteering, donating, subscribing to our newsletter or receiving missing person alerts, please click on the appropriate links, or —
Send an email to mikecanine@gmail.com
Or call:
In Israel — 054-487-6709
In the USA — 1-917-299-2270
If you wish to report a missing person, call our HOTLINE at — 054-487-6709.
To view recommendations and testimonials from the Israel Police, Fire Department, IDF or from actual missing persons and their families, please contact us (as listed above) or click HERE.
To see a list of missing persons yet to be found, click HERE.
DONATIONS
If you can't volunteer, please help sponsor the training and life-saving operations of the IDU – Israel's lead SAR unit.
To read or watch recent news and headlines on IDU operations, please click on the links below:
36 hours with the Israel Dog Unit:
ILTV Special on the IDU:
IDU Exercise With Special Forces:
Itamar Schlesinger found after 2 years of searching:
Yeshiva student found dead in Yarkon River:
Search for Jewish woman in the North continues:
Man found dead in Haifa by IDU dog-handler:
IDU rescues two Jewish girls from their Arab father:
Last Wednesday, two 15-year-old girls (with Jewish moms and Arab fathers) went missing from their Haifa dormitory. The IDU succeeded in rescuing the girls and returning them to their mothers' custody before they entered into the Arab village of Silwan, where one of the fathers resides.
IDU trains with IDF Special forces:
IDU helps find and rescue two missing people, one near Meron, the other in Beth Shemesh:
Great I24 TV special on the IDU:
IDU exhibition for Shomron school:
IDU holds dog show for special needs kids:
Israel Dog Unit holds special needs exhibition ahead of Yom Kippur:
On Tuesday, the Israel Dog Unit (IDU), a nonprofit specializing in working dogs, organized a heartfelt event for children with special needs in advance of Yom Kippur.
IDF seeks cooperation from IDU to train Hilltop Youth in canine security skills and more:
Terrorist from Kfar Yona apprehended after 3 day man-hunt, IDU plays central role in his search and capture:
IDU Tracking Course:
IDU holds a dog show for hundreds of special needs children in Kiryat Malachi:
IDU renews searches for multiple missing people in Zefat caves and forests:
Bnai Akiva joins IDU in search for Yoram Fleeter:
Friday night rescue in Jerusalem:
The Israel Dog Unit (IDU), a nonprofit organization specializing in working dogs for search and rescue, successfully located a missing woman at risk after an all-night search operation last Friday night in Jerusalem.
Knesset advances historic bill to aid families of missing people:
Rescue dogs search for victims at Iranian missile strike scene
The Israel Dog Unit is working with other emergency services to detect any Israelis trapped under the
rubble from the Iranian missile strikes in central Israel.
Great channel 14 interview with Yekutiel. It is Hebrew but dog performance needs no words- attached:
see attached video.
Video from yesterday's rubble site:
Another video showing the dog work and the incredible damage:
IDU dog on the site, indicating for a trapped missing victim:
