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 IDF WOMEN at an armored forces staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza, earlier this year.

How Israeli women balanced heroism and home during the Israel-Hamas war

By LIAT KULIK
IDF female combat soldiers.

Empowered women: Female IDF trailblazers mark historic achievements in defense

 A female IDF soldier stands in front of a tank.

Religious women break barriers in new IDF combat soldier unit

 Female combat soldiers from combat intelligence operate in southern Lebanon, November 18, 2024.

Historic first: Female Israeli combat soldiers deploy in Lebanon

IDF female combat soldiers.

These women are the first IDF tank crew preventing drug smuggling along Egyptian border

 SKYLARK MINI UAVs can be easily deployed by hand in the field.

IDF tactical intelligence unit's new commander breaks glass ceiling on the frontlines

By ERIC NARROW
 Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meeting with female combat commanders to discuss "dramatic changes" in the IDF, March 8, 2024.

Gallant says 'dramatic change' coming in integrating more women in IDF combat roles

Israeli soldiers of Caracal battalion

Isaac Herzog: Women must have influence at all levels of decision-making

 There is a high demand for combat roles among women in the November-December 2023 draft

Less than 50% of Israeli men believe women are capable of being combat soldiers

IDF female combat soldiers.

Support for female combat soldiers dependent on sector, study finds

 ELEANOR SELA (left) and Ayelet Menahemi.

Filmmakers speak about adapting the saga of the female tank crew for the movies

 Former Israeli politician and Brigadier General Avigdor Kahalani poses for a picture in the Valley of Tears, Golan Heights, northern Israel, September 20, 2022.

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

 There is a high demand for combat roles among women in the November-December 2023 draft

Two Israeli women to enter elite Air Force unit training

 IDF female and male soldiers are seen operating in the Gaza Strip on November 19, 2023

WATCH: IDF's first mixed-gender battalion operates in the heart of Gaza

 TRAINING EXERCISE to identify a halala

The IDF women's 'hevra kadisha', an act of true loving kindness

By TOBY KLEIN GREENWALD
 Israeli soldiers and rescue forces seen at Mount Harif military base in the southern Negev desert, close to the border with Egypt, on June 3, 2023

Israel's Druze threaten to cut ties with IDF after young woman drafted

Women will soon be able to serve in the Israeli Air Force's elite  669 Search and Rescue Unit as well as the Yahalom combat engineering unit.

Women headed for IDF’s prestigious Sayeret Matkal?

 IDF Cheif of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi looks on as the writer receives a citation of excellence for his reserve duty, shaking hands with Brig.-Gen Benny Ben Ari, commander of the Reserve Forces Corps, at a ceremony earlier this year.

Nothing must be allowed to take us away from the sacred duty to serve in the reserves - opinion

By ITAMAR DAVID MAYSHAR