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N12 presenter blasts Israeli war hero for objecting to female fighters in Gaza

 
 Former Israeli politician and Brigadier General Avigdor Kahalani poses for a picture in the Valley of Tears, Golan Heights, northern Israel, September 20, 2022.  (photo credit: David Cohen/Flash90)
Former Israeli politician and Brigadier General Avigdor Kahalani poses for a picture in the Valley of Tears, Golan Heights, northern Israel, September 20, 2022.
(photo credit: David Cohen/Flash90)

Yom Kippur War hero Avigdor Kahalani was confronted about his past comments criticizing the role of women in the Israeli military.

Channel 12 News reporter Adva Dadon and Yom Kippur War hero Avigdor Kahalani had an on-air confrontation regarding women’s army service on Saturday. 

In an interview with Kahalani, Dadon showed him a Channel 12 broadcast about female soldiers in tanks who fought against Hamas terrorists during the October 7 surprise attack, and challenged him about his past comments criticizing the role of women in the Israeli military.

“The role of a woman is to be a mother, to bring children into the world,” Kahalani had stated to Galey Israel Radio in 2016. “After the traumas of war, she would be totally different.”

He also told the radio station that tanks were not the right place for women.

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Kahalani commented on the confrontation with Dadon in an interview with the radio station on Sunday.

"I do not retract my words: I repeat them and say accept them" he said. "Bravo to the tank women who fought—they sit on the border line, they have a defensive role and that's fine. [But] why aren't tanks with girls currently being brought into Gaza? Everyone understands what I understand.

Israeli female soldiers walk in front of a tank during an exercise at the end of their tank instructors course at Shizafon base (credit: RONEN ZVULUN / REUTERS)
Israeli female soldiers walk in front of a tank during an exercise at the end of their tank instructors course at Shizafon base (credit: RONEN ZVULUN / REUTERS)

"I don't think a girl can do less than a man, but I was in Israel's wars, I saw the sights and I know how they return from the battlefield. If she wants [to go], there is no problem: Let the army decide,” the highly decorated war hero said.


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“I have been happily married for 57 years to the same woman and all those who try to laugh at me are married a second and third time. I have a lot of respect for women, but don't take it to the misogynistic side," he said: "I have compassion."

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