Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Chapters: Infantry of Israel, Israeli Combat Engineering Corps, Golani Brigade, Military Police Corps, Givati Brigade, Nahal, IDF Caterpillar D9, Education and Youth Corps, Armored Corps, Duvdevan Unit, Infantry Corps, Ordnance Corps, Yahalom, Paratroopers Brigade, Field Intelligence Corps, Kfir Brigade, Puma armored engineering vehicle, Logistics Corps, Artillery Corps, Adjutant Corps, Medical Corps, C4I Corps, Caracal Battalion, General Corps. Excerpt: The Military Police Corps of the Israel Defense Forces (Hebrew: ¿¿, Heil HaMishtara HaTzva'it) is the Israeli military police and provost. The military police serves the Manpower Directorate during peace time, and the Technological and Logistics Directorate during war. The military police is a brigade-sized unit of about 4, 500, headed by Brigadier General Meir Ohana. It is responsible for various law enforcement duties, including aiding IDF commanders in enforcing discipline, guarding the military prisons, locating deserters, investigating crimes committed by soldiers, and helping man the Israeli checkpoints in the Palestinian territories. Some of the above activities have contributed to the corps's deteriorating public image over the years. The corps puts an emphasis on discipline and follows the principle of A Choice in Life, which says no to traffic accidents, narcotics, alcohol, suicide and improper use of weapons. Notrim (Ghaffirs)-special policemen, 1937The IDF's Military Police Corps traces its roots to a Jewish youth paramilitary organization called Notrim, founded in 1936. It was legal under British Mandate law, unlike its many counterparts such as the Haganah. Its original purpose was to defend and police Jewish yishuv localities during the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. In 1937, the organization was given permission to expand, due to lack of British manpower allocated for defending Jewish villages in Palestine. During World War II, the Notrim became part of the Jewish Brigade, where it grew and became more known among the Palestinian Jewish public. Many new recruits joined the organization, where they went through a filtering process where it was decided what unit they were to be placed in. In 1944, an order was given by the Haganah to create its own military police in the Jewish Brigade, and the task was given to a captain therein, named Daniel Lifshitz (later Danny Magen). Lifshitz and three sergeants from the brigade who served at a base near Cair