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Each year, 1,500 female soldiers are drafted into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). [5] Women were employed in full combat roles during the 1947–1949 Palestine War; incidents involving the abuse of female soldiers' corpses by Arab troops led to the Israeli cabinet's decision to withdraw women from frontline combat [4] until 2000, when the ...
She was among four female soldiers to be returned to Israel on Saturday as part of the first phase of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Two hundred Palestinian prisoners were released in return.
As noted by the director of the Australian Defense Association, Neil James, this was most likely the first time in history that a female armored unit participated in a war. [3] Israel has made use of its female soldiers, including Israeli female tank crews, as a public relations tool in the Israel–Hamas war. Their involvement in combat is ...
Elinor Joseph (Arabic: آلينور جوزف, Hebrew: אלינור ג'וזף; born 1991 in Jish, Israel) is an Israeli-Arab soldier who has served with the Caracal Battalion of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) since 2010. She became the first Arab woman ever to serve in a combat role in the Israeli military. [1]
Four female Israeli soldiers, who had been held in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, are released by Hamas militants as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal, in Gaza City, on Jan. 25, 2025.
Hamas has handed over four female Israeli soldiers, while 200 Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons have been released in the second such exchange under the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. Karina ...
Beret doffing ceremony at Masada. The 33rd "Caracal" Battalion (Hebrew: גדוד קרקל) is an infantry combat battalion of the Israel Defense Forces, one of the three fully combat units (alongside the 'Lions of Jordan Battalion' and the 'Cheetah Battalion') in the Israeli military's Paran Brigade that are composed of both male and female soldiers. [2]
The four Israeli soldiers released were taken from Nahal Oz base near the border with Gaza when Palestinian militants overran it, killing more than 60 soldiers there. A fifth female soldier in ...