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Or Ben-Yehuda in April 2024. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Oct. 7: Book excerpt

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'We created a defensive line that cut off Hamas's attack'

‘We’re not breaking’: The untold heroics of the female fighters who held off Hamas at Sufa

By Tal Schneider

In her new book, 'Israel’s Women Warriors,' ToI correspondent Tal Schneider tells the stories of women who played an outsized yet largely unsung role in defending Israel during the October 7, 2023, terrorist onslaught. In this exclusive excerpt translated into English, Or Ben-Yehuda of the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion takes control as an army outpost is overrun, with the fates of fellow soldiers, and several communities, on the line