The Israel Defense Forces plans to create a new women-only border defense platoon later this year specifically for religious female soldiers who want to serve in a fighting unit but are concerned about serving alongside men.
The plan was first revealed by the Kan news broadcaster and was confirmed to The Times of Israel by the IDF.
The first conscripts will be drawn from women enlisting into combat troops this coming March. The unit will be established within an existing, otherwise mixed-gender border defense unit, the military said.
Idiotic plan
ReplyDeleteFrom a military, security, humanistic perspective, this is a totally lunatic plan, with great danger to the women, and also people behind them. When they take a male soldier hostage, they give him food, a football until there's a deal. Chas v shalom, a woman hostage, she will bear several Arab children, and never be released.
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