IDF Women

Captain Ella trades desk for the field as IDF's new Arab spokesperson

Lt. Col. Ella Waweya, aka ‘Captain Ella,’ was recently named as the next army spokesperson for the Arab world

Head of the Arabic media desk at the IDF Spokesperson Unit Major "Captain" Ella Waweya; highest ranked Arab Muslim IDF soldier. 20.7.2024.
 There is a high demand for combat roles among women in the November-December 2023 draft

Women's integration into IDF 'disaster': Rabbis send letter to Netanyahu demanding intervention

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich arrives to a conference of the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon in Jerusalem, December 25, 2025

Smotrich doubles down on refusal to enlist daughter, claims IDF is 'no place for women'

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (RZP) speaks at a Religious Zionist Party press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 16, 2026.

Finance Minister Smotrich says he won't educate his daughter to enlist in the IDF


Women given green light to serve in combat roles in elite IDF 669 unit

Unit 669 is one of the four special forces of the IDF. An estimated 90% of the positions in the IDF are now open to women.

Israeli soldiers of Caracal battalion

Boston family’s four daughters serve as lone soldiers in IDF

The Boston family will now see their youngest daughter join the elder three daughters, who are 24, 23 and 20 years old and serve in prestigious positions in the IDF.

 Captain A, Private Y, Private A, Lieutenant O.

Israel's first female IDF chief West Bank prosecutor

Lt.-Col. Ophira Alkabetz held the position from November 2019 until September, prosecuting terror trials, struggling to uphold Palestinian minors’ rights and prosecuting Palestinian NGO officials. 

 OPHIRA ALKABETZ, former IDF chief West Bank prosecutor.

Gilboa Prison Pimping Affair: A symptom of a larger problem?

The pimping affair’s reentry into the spotlight has caused some to question the way young women are treated upon their entry into mandatory service.

 Gilboa Prison

First woman to command an IAF flight school squadron

The first woman squadron commander in the IAF's prestigious Flight School entered her new role on Wednesday, marking yet another broken glass ceiling for women pilots.

 Major Y' prepares to take off with a pilot from her squadron, the 106th Squadron.

IDF officer arrested for allegedly spying on female soldiers

Lt. Col. Dan Sharoni is accused of taking photographs of female soldiers without their knowledge.

Soldiers from the IDF’s “Red Unit”

Orli Markman to be third female IDF Maj.-Gen. ever

Orli Markan is set to become the third female maj.-gen. in the IDF after she was appointed as president of the military court of appeals.

 (Left) Maya Goldschmidt (Right) Orli Markman

Meet Israeli female soldiers operating drones along the Lebanese border

IDF maintains that such operations, which Lebanon regularly complains about, are necessary to track Hezbollah’s hostile activities.

 An IDF combat soldier is seen surveying the sky

Soldier awarded certificate for promoting unit, IDF on TikTok

A Military Policewoman received a certificate on Tuesday for promoting Israel on her TikTok account, which had amassed 1.7 million followers, more than the IDF spokesperson or the prime minister.

THESE SOLDIERS are being trained to become Military Police correction officers.

IDF’s 'Red Unit': All-female unit challenging troops before they go to war

When they aren’t busy drilling with troops who can be from the elite Shayetet 13 to troops from the Golani or Paratrooper brigades, the women of the Red Unit are busy studying Israel’s enemies.

Soldiers from the IDF’s “Red Unit”