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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

female soldiers

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier operates surveillance cameras in an undated photo. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 19, 2024, 8:51 pm
‘Their voice’: New forum of slain surveillance soldiers’ families demands Oct. 7 probe
Group joins calls to form state commission of inquiry, says resignations ‘will not absolve’ those who failed to prevent massacre of female troops at Nahal Oz base
By ToI Staff
Shira Albag, mother of hostage Liri Albag, speaks during a conference of the Female Municipal Leaders' Forum in Ganei Tikva, June 14, 2024. (Screen capture: Ynet, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 15, 2024, 1:06 am
Citing rescued hostage, captive soldier’s mom says women were held as slaves
Mothers share accounts of their children’s captivity at conference, with one saying girls forced to clean and cook
By ToI Staff
Hamas terror suspects, caught during Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and during the ongoing IDF operations in Gaza, seen at a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 27, 2024, 10:42 am
Jailed Nukhba terrorists regularly sexually harass female guards, soldier says
A female reserve soldier details lax security at terrorist detention facility and sexual harassment she has experienced
By ToI Staff
Female IDF combat soldier (Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
May 12, 2024, 8:54 pm
Fighting and dying alongside men for decades, female soldiers finally get their due
Women Warriors site gathers stories and info about female troops killed in line of duty, as group hopes to memorialize fallen and inspire more integration in combat roles
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with female combat battalion commanders, March 8, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
March 8, 2024, 6:50 pm
Gallant says Gaza war proves women can fill more military positions
Defense minister meets with female combat battalion commanders in honor of International Women’s Day, says their contribution to war effort will shape IDF for decades
By ToI Staff
Female members of IDF armored forces at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza, January 01, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)
March 3, 2024, 8:37 pm
Equal but different: The specific health considerations of female combat soldiers
While serving on the front lines against Hamas alongside their male IDF comrades, women must contend with the medical realities of their biology
By Renee Ghert-Zand
This image grab from a handout video released by the Israeli army on February 29, 2024, shows Gazans surrounding aid trucks in Gaza City. (IDF via AFP)
March 1, 2024, 2:10 pm
Daily Briefing Mar 1: Day 147 – Chain of events of deadly stampede in Gaza unraveled
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on disaster surrounding aid convey, terrorist shooting in Eli killing two; health reporter Renee Ghert-Zand on women in war, man-made testicles
By ToI Staff
Soldiers are seen monitoring surveillance cameras at a command center at the IDF's Re'im camp in southern Israel, November 5, 2023 (Israel Defense Forces)
February 26, 2024, 4:51 pm
Parents protest IDF decision to move surveillance soldiers nearer to Lebanon border
Amid concerns of a potential attack by Hezbollah in similar vein to Hamas on October 7, mother says she would prefer to see her daughter in military prison but alive
By ToI Staff
Female soldiers during training, in an undated photography published by the military on June 7, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 6, 2023, 9:03 pm
IDF sees surge in female conscripts seeking combat roles since start of war with Hamas
Massive rise in women asking to join border defense, artillery, border police, search and rescue and other units; in first, two women pass selection for elite 669 rescue unit
By Emanuel Fabian
A female IDF combat soldier inside a tank (screenshot: Channel 12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 26, 2023, 1:03 am
Female IDF tank crews ran down dozens of Hamas terrorists on October 7
Channel 12 interviews soldiers from all-woman company within mixed-gender battalion who say there was no time for fear or hesitation, battled terrorists for 17 hours
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A mother holds a baby, with a bottle of breast milk at foreground. (Pilin_Petunyia/iStock by Getty images)
October 10, 2023, 10:12 pm
Health Ministry issues directives for national breast milk bank during war
Priority will be given to babies whose mothers are dead, injured, missing, kidnapped, or serving in IDF reserves; nursing moms urged to donate
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Mazen Al-Qaadi at Ramon Prison. (Courtesy)
October 2, 2023, 7:32 pm
Prisoner in suspected sex scandal is Mazen Al-Qadi, convicted in 2002 terror attack
Al-Qadi, 43, named as Palestinian prisoner with whom 5 guards are said to have had intimate ties at Ramon Prison; he aided terrorist who killed 3 Israelis in Tel Aviv
By ToI Staff
An undated photo of Nafha and Ramon prisons in southern Israel. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
September 30, 2023, 11:29 pm
Female prison guards, officials to be questioned over alleged sex scandal
5 guards suspected of having intimate relationships with Palestinian terror convict at Ramon Prison; IPS officials reportedly suspected of being in the know
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: View of Gilboa Prison, near the Jordan Valley, December 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 29, 2023, 2:47 pm
Female soldiers no longer to guard security prisons amid suspected sex scandal
Soldier serving as guard allegedly had intimate relationship with prisoner jailed for deadly terror attack; other soldiers also suspected of inappropriate contact with him
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative: Female soldiers in the army's infantry instructors course take a water break during an exercise on November 19, 2007. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 24, 2023, 10:16 am
Report: Female soldiers barred from singing at IDF base due to religious troops
IDF says it is investigating report, which comes amid spate of instances where women have been discriminated against to accommodate sensitivities of religious Jewish men
By ToI Staff
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