March 13, 2016
6:36 am

A soldier from the Lions of the Jordan Battalion participates in an exercise on June 8, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

New combat positions for women in the IDF, same old obstacles

As the army makes strides in increasing gender equality, both physiological and cultural barriers keep female officers from the General Staff

By Judah Ari Gross

July 6, 2015
3:54 pm

Men and women soldiers of the Caracal battalion, November 2007. (Yoni Markovitzki/IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

IDF shaves four months off men’s mandatory service

Army about-face includes less training time, change in physical requirements for combat troops, more women in combat

By Times of Israel staff

May 19, 2015
4:26 pm

The IDF has long had female tank instructors, as photographed on January 1, 2013, but it will not allow women soldiers to fill combat roles in the armored corps (Cpl Zev Marmorstein/ IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Army makes U-turn on letting women serve in tanks

IDF says it is rolling back a plan to integrate female soldiers into armored corps, citing physical challenges and close quarters of vehicles

By Mitch Ginsburg

October 23, 2014
1:17 pm

Police and rescue personnel at the scene where several people were injured when a car crashed into a Jerusalem Light Rail station, on October 22, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Derailed in Jerusalem

The press expresses its horror and outrage over the killing of a 3-month-old baby in a terror attack and declares, once and for all, that yes, a third intifada is here

By Joshua Davidovich

May 29, 2013
6:52 pm

The Caracal battalion, which is made up of male and female combat soldiers fighting side by side, during a training session in November 2007. (photo credit: Yoni Markovitzki/IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Gantz says no girls in Golani

Chief of staff supports female fighter pilots but doesn’t see women joining infantry brigades en masse

By Aaron Kalman

January 24, 2013
1:16 am

Panetta opens US military combat roles to women

Hundreds of thousands of front-line roles, elite units, to open up to female warriors; in Israel, women serve in range of posts

By AP and Times of Israel staff

September 24, 2012
2:17 pm

A female combat soldier (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Heroes past and present

Israel’s G.I. Jane recalls her battle, Ehud Barak mulls a second disengagement, and what we can learn from 1973 about today’s standoff with Iran

By Ron Friedman

September 24, 2012
12:45 pm

Female soldier hid behind bush during Sinai attack, sparking kidnapping fears

IDF searched for missing unit member for over an hour after fierce engagement at border

By Stuart Winer

September 24, 2012
10:51 am

This file photo shows female soldiers preparing for a march near Ein Yahav in southern Israel in 2006 (photo credit: AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Border shootout proves mettle of mixed-gender IDF unit

The Caracal battalion, comprised of 60 percent women, patrols the volatile Israeli-Egyptian border

By Tia Goldenberg

Topic: Caracal Battalion