Israeli Army panel for opening combat roles to women
An Army-appointed commission has recommended letting women into the military`s last all- male bastions, extending equal opportunities to front-line infantry, armoured corps and special forces, media reported recently.
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Jerusalem: An Army-appointed commission
has recommended letting women into the military's last all-
male bastions, extending equal opportunities to front-line
infantry, armoured corps and special forces, media reported
recently.
The military said the draft report by a panel of
officers and academics was a tool for long term-planning and was meant
to "maximise the abilities of the women for the overall
benefit of the armed forces." It did not have details of the
report's recommendations.
Israel Radio reported that the commission, set up by
the head of the Army's Human Resources Department, proposed
that women no longer be excluded from any unit because of
their gender, and that men and women drafted for Israel's
compulsory military duty should serve for the same length of
time.
At present men are usually conscripted for three
years and women for two. Arabs and ultra-orthodox Jews are
exempted.
Retired General Yehudit Ben-Natan, who headed the
now-defunct Women's Corps, said she had long championed total
integration of women in the military and rejected arguments
that women should be kept out of the frontline because they
might be hurt, taken prisoner or forced to work in
uncomfortably confined spaces with men.
"The heart and soul of the Army is combat and if we are
in the Army we need to be at its heart," she told the radio.
Let there be tanks with all - female crews and all - woman
missile batteries, because we can do it and we must stop
allocating duties by gender.
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