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Alongside its longstanding security challenges, the state of Israel has also been grappling in recent years with an intense controversy over the service of women
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 7:00 AM
Women's affairs adviser to the IDF chief of staff, Brig. Gen. Gila Kalifi-Amir, practices shooting. (Photo: IDF/Wikimedia)
"Alongside its longstanding security challenges, the state of Israel has also been grappling in recent years with an intense controversy over the service of women in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The dispute recently came to a boiling point with the amendment of the “Joint Service Order,” which sets out guidelines for women’s military service alongside Orthodox men who observe, inter alia, religious restrictions on interacting with their female fellow-soldiers.
The IDF is one of the only armies in the Western world in which women are drafted to military service by law. Women have served in the Israeli army ever since its establishment in 1948. At first they served mainly in administrative jobs or as instructors in a variety of fields, but they gradually moved into operational positions due to both a shortage in combat soldiers and demands of Israeli feminist groups. According to
Haaretz, the number of female combatants has more than doubled in recent years. In 2012, 3 percent of women in the IDF served in combat positions. Four years later, in 2016,
the percentage more than doubled to 7 percent—and it will likely continue to rise.
A major milestone came in 1995, ..."