IDF Women

Inside the IDF’s female field intelligence unit spying deep inside Syria – exclusive

Commander hints that the IDF is not leaving Syria any time soon, despite US-sponsored talks

ISRAELI/SYRIAN border fence near IDF Position 720 at the Israel-Syria-Jordan tri-border.
 IDF's women Operational Hummer Driving Instructors seen at a gas station in the northern town of Katsrin, Golan Heights on February 8, 2024.

The women shaping Israel's front line strategy against Iran: Inside the IDF's war bunker

 (L) STAFF SGT. NOA COHEN, 21, was wounded on Oct. 7, 2023.

Wounded IDF soldiers: ‘At this home, we choose life’

 Female combat paramedic soldiers, September 24, 2024.

Knesset c'mtee to discuss female soldiers' rights, haredi IDF integration


IDF's Air Defense Division to get 1st female deputy battalion commander

"There are no limits to what you can do if you set your mind to it," said U.S. Army Maj. Mary Thorton.

Maj. Mary Thorton, Executive Officer 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment.

International women's day: honoring Israel's true superwomen

Amazing women, who despite disabilities caused by tragedy stretch the boundaries of their capabilities, make the world seem a better place.

Maytal Wax (left) and Einat Malka

MKs in uniform to salute women of the IDF

"Our army is the army of the people... in which everyone should be equal."

MKs (L-R) Sharren Haskel (Likud), Merav Ben-Ari (Kulanu) and Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin (Zionist Union)

Four female soldiers heading to Armored Corps’ officer training

The soldiers are part of a pilot program by the IDF to integrate women into the corps.

Israeli female soldiers walk in front of a tank during an exercise at the end of their tank instructors course at Shizafon base

Co-ed army service in Israel

It’s time for the people’s army to listen to the voice of the people, and not just to the voice of extremists.

Women in the IDF

Effort under way to block funds for helping religious girls to enlist

The campaign involves high-school girls getting photographed with a message calling on the Education Ministry “not to interfere” with their education.

Women in the IDF

About misogynistic pronouncements

The news is far from entirely progressive and this struggle will not simply be linear. But clearly, we are in a new phase. Pathetic pronouncements by threatened men are a sure sign of that.

The IDF's new coed combat units are the result of a long struggle for the integration of women into fighting roles in the army

National-religious leaders say hardline rabbis ‘disconnected’

The rabbis claim that the IDF is an inappropriate place for religious women owing to their proximity to young men and argue that women in the armed forces is forbidden by Jewish law.

Women in the IDF

La place des soldates remise en question

Les propos très controversés sur les femmes dans l’armée tenus par certains grands noms du mouvement national-religieux pourraient présager d’une nouvelle guerre des cultures

Des soldates de Tsahal en 1969

Young women to Shaked: Protest Rabbi’s campaign against female IDF service

"We are surprised and disappointed that you allow a public official to use his public status in order to work against the legitimacy of women’s service in the IDF and against female equality."

Ayelet Shaked