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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a meeting with his Greek counterpart Nikos Panagiotopoulos, in Athens, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
June 7, 2023, 5:23 pm
Rejecting criticism, Gallant says female and male IDF fighters ‘one and the same’
Defense minister says women involved in country’s defense at all levels, after conservative voices denounced mixed service following killing of man and woman together in guard post
By ToI Staff
Labor party leader Merav Michaeli attends a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 6, 2023, 8:06 am
Labor leader slams TV channel for implying impropriety by soldiers killed at post
Critics have accused Channel 14 panelists of suggesting incident on Egyptian border was a partly a result of inappropriate relations between male and female soldiers
By ToI Staff
Soldiers of the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion prepare for a night hike during training, near the border with Egypt, September 3, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 21, 2019, 8:07 pm
Netanyahu defends female troops after Smotrich blasts mixed-gender units
PM praises servicewomen as transportation minister claims men and women serving together weakens IDF
Soldiers take part in a ceremony marking the creation of the new Faran Brigade in the Israel Defense Forces, which will defend the Egyptian-Israeli border, in November 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 28, 2018, 1:42 pm
In reshuffle, army forms new Faran Brigade to defend Israel-Egypt border
IDF closes the Sagi Regional Brigade, replacing it with a unit tasked with both training soldiers and deploying them along the border as part of streamlining effort
By Judah Ari Gross
Soldiers from the mixed-gender Lions of the Jordan Valley Battalion take part in an exercise in the Tze'elim army base on February 5, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
March 11, 2018, 1:19 pm
Arguments rage over IDF’s inclusion of women, but co-ed ‘Lions’ have a job to do
Politicians, rabbis question army’s PR strategy of touting female soldiers; for those women and the men who serve with them, however, the opinions are irrelevant
By Judah Ari Gross and Video by Luke Tress
Illustrative photo: Soldiers in the mixed gender Cheetah Battalion participate in a squad exercise in southern Israel on November 16, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)
September 26, 2017, 5:59 pm
Soldier to be jailed for 27 months for raping female comrade
As part of plea deal, serviceman from IDF’s mixed-gender Bardelas combat unit must also pay victim NIS 8,600
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative. Handcuffs in a courthouse. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)
May 25, 2017, 9:08 pm
Military Police arrest soldier suspected of raping female comrade
Suspect served in the same unit as the alleged victim; sexual assault said to have occurred in her barracks
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbi Yigal Levinstein teaching a lesson in 2013. (Screen capture: YouTube)
May 3, 2017, 4:27 pm
Pre-army yeshiva head who denigrated women goes on leave
Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, filmed saying military service drives female soldiers ‘crazy,’ asks students not to contact him
By ToI Staff
File: The Caracal Battalion, which is made up of male and female combat soldiers fighting side by side, during a training session in November 2007. (Yoni Markovitzki/IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)
November 20, 2016, 6:21 am
Women increasingly join the fight in Israel’s army
In five short years, women’s participation in combat roles will jump from 3% of female enlistees to 9.5%, but barriers remain
By Michael Blum
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