Four female tanks that killed about fifty terrorists/Amir Bohbot
At the beginning of the week, a few days before International Women's Day, you could hear another glass ceiling in the IDF shattering. Lt. Col. G was appointed to be the first commander of an air force base, breaking another path in the history of women's service in the IDF. War of Iron Swords, that scatters shards of shattering glass when it comes to the integration of women in combat roles: the tankmen, the female soldiers, the doctors and paramedics, the MGB fighters and much more, have been proving for five months that their bravery, resistance and determination is no less than that of the men who fight alongside them on the battlefield.
And the observant and counter-intuitive who saw with their eyes what the men missed.
Not only the female combatants were discovered on October 7.
Also the bravery, resilience and determination of the civilian women on the home front: the kibbutznik grandmothers, the brave women and girls who returned from Hamas captivity with their heads held high, the mothers, sisters and daughters who are fighting for their 134 loved ones who are still kidnapped in Gaza, including 19 abductees, the thought of whom makes this year's International Women's Day especially sad and gloomy .
Before equality, women have a right to security, and the country that abandoned them to hell must do everything to get them back.
We will not be equal until they are back.
Also the women of the military men who keep the house alone when the country is mobilized on two fronts are revealed in all their bravery, resistance and determination, or the mothers of the Otaf and the North who were displaced and became overnight refugees in their country, and the volunteers who open a kitchen every week to cook huge meals for the soldiers.
In such a long war, and in general, national security is so much more than an army and armaments, and depends no less on the civilian resilience in the home front, and on all these lioness women.
While the glass ceilings are breaking in the IDF, regression is evident in politics. Fighting inside the Gaza Strip/official website, Tal Shalu
Between the trailblazing fighters, the brave hostages and the spouses who carry the burden, this is probably the most female war in Israel's history, but the voice of Israeli women is hardly heard at the top of the fateful decision-making.
The War Cabinet is about the purity of the male sex only.
The political and security cabinet officially has one woman, Miri Regev, and two other observers, Yifat Shasha Biton and Gila Gamaliel, but it is also known as the cabinet of leaks, with most major decisions being made first in the limited forum of the prime minister and his associates, the defense minister, and the two former chiefs of staff
All the heads of the security organizations that appear before them on a regular basis, the Chief of Staff, the head of the Shin Bet, the head of Mossad, the police commissioner, are men
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The same goes for the official and unofficial delegations that are sent between the capitals of the region in the negotiations for the release of the abductees. And all the advisers around the Prime Minister. Apart from the military secretary's briefer and chief of staff, hours and hours of discussions are held in the presence of men only.
Even if you don't care about women's representation or equality, after October 7th it's mostly a recipe for groupthink and groupthink.
And all this in the most religious government ever, one third of which excludes women and another third fights the women's organizations as a permanent goal.
A government in which there are only two female CEOs, out of more than 30 ministries, a government that disbanded the Authority for the Status of Women. A government whose Minister of National Security distributes weapons indiscriminately and denies budgets from organizations to prevent the murder of women, and whose Minister for the Status of Women scolds the Knesset for Knessets from the opposition and social activities instead of combining forces with them for the sake of women and the prices they pay in the war.
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The most feminine war in Israel's history.
Yochaved Lifshitz who was released from Hamas captivity, in October/Reuven Castro
Even before October 7, Israel was on a downward trend in all gender and equality indicators, and the war, according to the assessment, will only deepen the gaps.
In the political arena, the hottest commodity the day after will be generals, such as Yair Golan who was born on October 7th to the position of the uncrowned leader of the left bloc.
If Golan does become the head of the left in the next elections, the entire political map will consist of party leaders, without a presidency.
In other words, the women will not be present at any forum of future coalition leaders.
And so, while in the IDF the glass ceilings are breaking, in politics there is a regression: they are only getting further and further away.
And yet, the shattering ceilings in combat and in the chain of command in the IDF are an opportunity to mark goals for the future.
10-20 years ago, no one dreamed that women would fight inside Gaza, and here they are doing it.
Perhaps in a decade, the head of the National Security Agency, the head of the Mossad, maybe even a minister of defense can be appointed here?
Israel was one of the first countries in the world to have a prime minister, Golda Meir, who is also the only one to this day, and one of the only two foreign ministers, alongside Tzipi Livni. In the last decade, a wave of female leadership has swept the world, with prime ministers, foreign service, and yes, also the security and defense service at the time of need. And for those who believe that this does not capture Israel's multitude of security threats, it remains only to add that men without a military background such as Moshe Arens and Amir Peretz The Ministry of Defense and the annals judge them in the meantime as not bad defense ministers.
Mia Regev who returned from captivity, in a speech at the Knesset this week/Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel
The Deborah Forum, which works for the integration of women in the fields of foreign affairs and defense and unites hundreds of senior women involved in the field, recently conducted a survey that examined whether the Israeli public is ready to accept a woman in the position of Minister of Defense.
The findings show that the majority of Israelis do not think that this will happen in the near future, but also that the majority of Israelis think that a woman in the position of Minister of Defense would be no less good in the position of a booster.
In the survey, conducted through Dialog in an online panel, a representative sample of 510 respondents was asked when they thought there would be a defense minister in Israel.
A third - 33% - replied that she would never be a defense minister, only 21% thought it could be within a decade, another 20% gave it about 15-20 years.
In gender segmentation, by the way, the women were even more pessimistic than the men.
When will there be a woman security minister in Israel?/Walla! system, without
When will there be a woman security minister in Israel?/Walla! system, without
If there is already a woman minister of defense, the survey continued, will she be better or less than a man?
About half of the sample answered that there is no difference, 29% that it would be better, 22% - that it would be less good.
Overall, 78% of respondents thought that a female defense minister would perform as well or better than a man.
The Deborah Forum believes that the bravery of female fighters published on October 7th can be the basis for changing the public's perception of a woman in the position of Minister of Defense, and that the significant reserve service of women and the climb up the ranks and positions in the IDF and the Mossad will break through more security and political glass ceilings on the way to the 14th floor in Kirya. "In order for her to be a defense minister in Israel in about 10 years - we need to start talking about it now," says the forum's CEO, Ofra Ash.
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