Within six years: 160% increase in the service of women combatants in the IDF | Israel Today

In a discussion held at the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, it was revealed that women make up 18% of the IDF's fighting force • MK Michaeli: "The IDF will be able to advance after looking at women as human beings"

• IDF fighters, last year (photographers have nothing to do with the article)

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  Yehuda ben Itach

The number of women in combat roles in the IDF has increased by 160% in the last six years, this was revealed today (Tuesday) in a discussion on "Comparisons of rights and obligations of women and men in the IDF" in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

According to Brigadier General Amir Vadmani, head of the IDF's Planning and Personnel Division, the process of integrating women into the IDF is constantly increasing, and that today women make up 18% of the fighting force. He also said that the number of clerks in the army has dropped by 25%. Another pilot of women fighting in the Armored Forces. "A committee has also been set up, headed by the commander of the Land Forces, to examine each position in the IDF and its other physiological requirements - it will formulate its recommendations and submit the findings to the High Court in April 2021," he said.

The hearing was also attended by Moore Lidani, one of the petitioners to the High Court requesting to open Women's Cruises Day, who said that the purpose of the petition is “not to accept discounts and lower the bar, but to prove that we can contribute in such places as well.

51% of the population can contribute, these are 51% who lower their self-belief. "

She was joined by MK Merav Michaeli (Labor), who attacked the IDF's conduct on the issue: "Today all modern armies are bypassing him and he is lagging behind with pathetic and pathetic arguments. "Right for the job, and not by reproductive organs and gender. It is necessary to look at women as human beings, and then the IDF will be able to advance into the modern era."

MK Hauser summed up the discussion by saying that the IDF should continue to operate without discrimination between women and men.

"The IDF must strive to allow every man to reach his full potential in military service, a woman as a man.

"The committee calls on the committee headed by the commander of the land arm to examine their opening to the service of women of all IDF professions, in the spirit of these things," he said.