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Following the petition: A team led by a general will examine the integration of women in elite and infantry units
The chief of staff informed the Supreme Court that the commander of the land arm, Major General Joel Strick, will head the team, which will examine the issue through experiments and medical research. This is in response to a petition by four candidates for security service to allow them to differentiate and enlist in the closed units for women. The recommendations - in a year
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- Joel Strick
Amir Bohbot
Thursday, August 13, 2020, 12:30 p.m.Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi announced today (Thursday) to the Supreme Court that he has appointed the commander of the Land Forces, Maj. Gen. Joel Strick, to head a team that will examine the IDF women's service as fighters in elite units and infantry battalions. The IDF emphasized that the decisions made so far were based on operational effectiveness and optimal utilization. They added that 87% of all IDF positions are open to women and that there are more than 3,200 combatant girls in each year of enlistment. The decision to examine the issue was first published in Walla! NEWS.
Along with Strick, Brigadier General Eliezer Toledano, Chief Medical Officer and other officers the IDF has not yet uncovered, were appointed to Kochavi. Kochavi instructed the commander of the ground arm to take a broad approach to the range of positions and thoroughly examine the positions subject to trials, medical studies with emphasis on physiology Personnel planning and development of commanders and reservists, including similar studies in foreign armies. It is estimated that teamwork will be completed in a year and submitted to the chief of staff and then to the High Court.
According to IDF data, in 2019 6,000 women served in combat roles. The number has risen gradually in recent years since 2014, when only 2,500 women served in such positions.
Four candidates for security service in the IDF petitioned last May against Defense Minister Bnei Gantz and Chief of Staff Kochavi demanding that they be allowed to differentiate and enlist in elite units such as Squadron 13, the General Staff Reconnaissance Unit, the Cherry Undercover Unit, infantry battalions and other units currently closed to women. . In the petition, the girls sought to explain why the same combat roles in elite units and elite units are closed to women, not on a sorting basis, and even argued that the military's arbitrary decision is a wrongful thing that violates the principle of equal opportunity and the law.
Last month it was published in Walla! NEWS that the Chief of Staff has instructed to conduct staff work that will examine the integration of women in combat roles in the General Staff Reconnaissance and the IDF (Special Task Engineering Unit). Sources involved in the matter said that "surprises" appear in the move, which will also examine the service of women in combat teams. In tanks in the Armored Corps.
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The IDF is examining: Integration of women in combat roles in the General Staff Reconnaissance Regiment and other units
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Kochavi (Photo: IDF Spokesman)In the Air Force, Maj. Gen. Amikam Nurkin promotes and accelerates a reverse trend from the land arm and encourages women to differentiate into a pilot course and other arrays. Just this year, Nurkin decided to appoint the first test squadron since the corps was founded, and the first combat squadron to be the "mighty" aircraft squadron.
