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 Manpower head: Not all combat positions suitable for women

A record breaking 1,000 women drafted into combat positions this summer

IDF Caracal soldier

To help reduce abortions, IDF to offer 'day-after pills' to soldiers

The abortion process is costly for the IDF, which spent NIS 4 million on the abortions of last year.

Women in the IDF

Meet the women of the IDF who are tipping the scales of the old boys club

Three senior female officers in the Home Front Command’s Medical Department spoke to the ‘Post.’

Lt.-Col. Merav Shavi-Sultan

Senior rabbis slam IDF over issue of female trainer

Calls for apology after MKs and army criticize religious soldiers who had been ordered to look away

An Israeli soldier wears phylacteries as he prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City February 22, 2012.

Record number of women volunteer for combat units

The number has more than doubled in three years.

Female soldiers in an IDF artillery unit distribute weapons to their unit.

First-ever female tank commanders make IDF history

“There is potential here for girls who really want to work for the defense of the state.”

History is made with first four female tank commanders in IDF history

200 National-Religious rabbis denounce IDF over 'liberal agenda'

The rabbis oppose religious men serving in close quarters to women, seeing it as contravening a religious lifestyle and even as endangering their religious identity.

IDF soldiers take part in battlefield maneuvers in preparation with potential war in the north.

Amid social change, can the IDF remain the 'People’s Army?'

A round-table discussion with Prof. Yuval Shany, Maj.-Gen. Orna Barbivai and Prof. Amichai Cohen.

Soldiers from the Nahal Haredi unit, the ultra-Orthodox battalion in the Israel Defense Forces

Four sons and misogyny

Misogyny is a disease that must be cured.

Male and female soldiers remember the fallen at a Remembrance Day ceremony on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl

Petition calls on gov't to fire rabbis who object to women in combat roles

Video released by Female Combatants Forum calls on rabbis to apologize or be fired.

Female combat soldiers in the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion train in urban warfare.