Female israeli soldiers

Defense Ministry treating 82,400 wounded soldiers and veterans, up 22,000 since start of war

Out of the new additions, 58% are being treated for mental health concerns.

A military helicopter evacuating wounded IDF soldiers from the Gaza Strip to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, May 15, 2024; illustrative.
 There is a high demand for combat roles among women in the November-December 2023 draft

New IDF record: Over 5,000 women recruited for combat roles last year

 A female IDF soldier stands in front of a tank.

IDF observers faint from overheating at Eilat base due to power outage amid heat wave

 Footage of IDF soldier spit and threatened by Jerusalem man.

Man arrested for threatening, spitting on female soldier in Jerusalem


Why must women choose between feminism and Zionism, but not any other ‘ism’?

There are many countries and movements throughout the world that treat women as second-class citizens. Israel is not among them.

‘AS THE only democracy in the Middle East, Israel’s legal guarantee of rights has meant that women play crucial roles in all aspects of Israeli society.’ Gold Meir during the 1973 war.

Israeli Pride Times Two: LGBT and female combat soldiers

"It’s all about a person’s ability, not gender or sexual orientation.”

The Israeli Pride Times Two event at Beit HaChayal

Two IDF soldiers rescued after straying into Palestinian village

There were no reports of injuries.

Israeli border police in the West Bank city of Hebron April 24, 2016

IDF denies Kaminer conscientious objector status

Until 2004, the IDF’s policy was to recognize more women than men as conscientious objectors.

TAIR KAMINER is serving a sixth term at Military Prison No. 6.

Center Field: To the father of the female soldier stabbed in the neck near Rachel’s Tomb

Last week, our daughter came home from guard duty during a family party, looking perfectly natural yet dressed anomalously in combat fatigues and lugging an M-16.

A female soldier has mud applied to her face for camouflage in this photo from an IDF Instructors course in 2006.

Or Lachayal delivers thousands of Purim packages to IDF soldiers

The packages included various snacks and candies with a personal message for each solider, costing some NIS 500,000.

Or Lachayal delivering "mishloach manot" purim packages to soldiers

Bayit Yehudi Knesset candidate says IDF not a place for women

The issue of women serving in the army has become a point of contention within the national religious community that Bayit Yehudi represents.

A religious woman and a female soldier pray at the Western Wall.

Security and Defense: IDF’s female operations officers on the watch

In the midst of rising West Bank violence, the IDF’s female operations officers work to keep attacks in check.

Operations officer Lt. Hila Sharabi’s Binyamin territorial brigade has also seen a clear spike in the number of violent incidents

10% of US-Israelis in IDF become officers

The report says a large majority of American immigrants in the army serve in combat units.

Lone soldiers who study at Yeshivat Hakotel take a break from training at their base.

The human spirit: The woman in the Puma

There is a small group of exceptional females that are being counted on to keep our soldiers alive from injury on the battlefield to the hospital.

A female soldier has mud applied to her face for camouflage in this photo from an IDF Instructors course in 2006.