IDF Women

Equality NGO Forum Dvorah slams hesder yeshivot boycott over women's integration in tank units

Forum Dvorah, an Israeli women's rights NGO, criticized hesder yeshivot for boycotting the IDF Armored Corps over a pilot program involving women tank units.

Female IDF soldiers work on a tank; illustrative.
DF armored forces at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. January 01, 2024.

Editor's Notes: High Court ruling on women in tanks deepens religious divide in IDF - comment

THE EXHIBIT ‘Observation/The Field Observers of the Gaza Sector’ by Talya Lavie is currently on display at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art gives voice to the female observers of Oct. 7

Maj.-Gen. Amikam Norkin, former Israel Air Force commander, awards Esti Solomon the Above and Beyond medal for the program to integrate haredi women into the air force.

Under the radar: The program bringing ultra-Orthodox women into the IDF


IDF: Women won't serve in the Armored Corps

Military says decision was made several months ago due to the need of "significant increase in manpower and infrastructure."

Tank commanders in the IDF

IDF Manpower head: Not all combat positions suitable for women

A record breaking 1,000 women drafted into combat positions this summer

IDF Caracal soldier

To help reduce abortions, IDF to offer 'day-after pills' to soldiers

The abortion process is costly for the IDF, which spent NIS 4 million on the abortions of last year.

Women in the IDF

Meet the women of the IDF who are tipping the scales of the old boys club

Three senior female officers in the Home Front Command’s Medical Department spoke to the ‘Post.’

Lt.-Col. Merav Shavi-Sultan

Senior rabbis slam IDF over issue of female trainer

Calls for apology after MKs and army criticize religious soldiers who had been ordered to look away

An Israeli soldier wears phylacteries as he prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City February 22, 2012.

Record number of women volunteer for combat units

The number has more than doubled in three years.

Female soldiers in an IDF artillery unit distribute weapons to their unit.

First-ever female tank commanders make IDF history

“There is potential here for girls who really want to work for the defense of the state.”

History is made with first four female tank commanders in IDF history

200 National-Religious rabbis denounce IDF over 'liberal agenda'

The rabbis oppose religious men serving in close quarters to women, seeing it as contravening a religious lifestyle and even as endangering their religious identity.

IDF soldiers take part in battlefield maneuvers in preparation with potential war in the north.

Amid social change, can the IDF remain the 'People’s Army?'

A round-table discussion with Prof. Yuval Shany, Maj.-Gen. Orna Barbivai and Prof. Amichai Cohen.

Soldiers from the Nahal Haredi unit, the ultra-Orthodox battalion in the Israel Defense Forces

Four sons and misogyny

Misogyny is a disease that must be cured.

Male and female soldiers remember the fallen at a Remembrance Day ceremony on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl