Topic: Caracal battalion

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

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)

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 IDF combat soldier (photo credit: 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

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)

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