Last week, a video was posted on website 0404 where a soldier was documented trying to load a tank shell as part of an armored combat pilot. The video was taken during the concluding exam, showing that the soldier needed 38 long seconds to load the shell. An armored officer interviewed in the article said that if the fighter takes more than 15 seconds to load a shell - the tank will be destroyed.
I succeeded for six months in a very intense Border Patrol, when I was eventually deployed in various companies. I went through a tough service in the most difficult areas of Border Patrol during the Second Intifada, from East Jerusalem to Hebron. I had an interesting and meaningful service, and I think women make a big contribution to the Corps. They bring with them professionalism, responsibility, and a proper approach to dealing with a civilian population in the friction areas, especially with women. It was one of the good and important decisions I made in my life, and I believe combat service is not only a contribution of the warrior or warrior to society and the state, but also the contribution of the military to the rest of the warrior or warrior's life.
But I have great reservations about the stubborn desire to combine combat in all units and at all costs. A true feminist is not willing to accept different threshold conditions than those acceptable to men, but seeks to meet similar threshold conditions. She does not have to agree to put a bench in the wall task in the officer course track examiner, nor to take down two cartridges from the vest, as the Boundary Commander has determined in discussing the physical damage done to the Karkal Battalion fighters. And what about the fact that a liberated warrior is bound for another 20 years of reserve and a warrior is not?
When all of this data is added to the set of considerations, a distorted snapshot is obtained. If there is a need for fighting women in some units, full equality in the threshold conditions must also exist. Would women recruiting for war positions agree to accept the entire package, just like the men?
In 1995, women began to engage in combat roles with the understanding that physical examinations of Palestinian women at checkpoints were needed. Border Police was the first corps to integrate women into these positions, and today it already allows fighters to integrate into all units of the corps, from detective units to undercover and undercover units, in real equality. Border Corps has a real need to integrate women in these sectors, and the conditions of admission are almost identical Of the men.
Of course, it is also important to mention the physiological differences between women and men, and the physical damage caused by intense training and service. Lifting of shells, carrying heavy loads, beret and maggot and mortar journeys, hour shifts with ceramic warp and vest - all of these will have many years of implications for the warrior's health, and these should also be taken into account by the IDF.
And another thing to conclude - combat service is not a judo circle, and it should not provide an experience of self-actualization to anyone recruiting or recruiting. The army has to carve the value of victory on its flag, and that is all that should be before the chief of staff's eyes when he thinks of equality for women. Whoever accepts the challenge and stands up to it - the honor deserves it.