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Women's Turn
Turn To Fly
In Israeli Skies

BOAZ DVIR SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

t. Alice Miller, who, through
a legal battle, forced the Is-
raeli air force last year to al-
low women to become pilots,
failed recently to qualify for the
pilot course. But her effort paved
the way for 13 women to try out
for the course, according to
Maariv.
Seven of the women recently
completed the grueling try-out
week and qualified for the two-
year course, Maariv reports.
Ms. Miller, an immigrant from
South Africa, was not even al-
lowed to participate in the try-
out because a psychologist who
examines the candidates deter-
mined that she is "overly ambi-
tious," according to Maariv.
The seven women who made
it face one of the most difficult
courses in the world. To become
the first female pilots in the Is-
rael Defense Forces, they will
have to do most of the same
things the men do, Maariv re-
ports.
The try-out commanders gave
the women, who made up a unit
and stayed in a separate tent,
two breaks — they allowed them
to take three showers (the men
take only one — at the end) and
they let them carry lighter loads,
Maariv reports.
The men were impressed.
One male participant gained
respect for the women when he
saw them completing the diffi-
cult hill-climbing exercise, he told
Maariv.
"It's a murderous exercise," he
said. "It's a tall, 40-degree hill.
You have to go up and down with
a stretcher on which there are
three sand bags. The main prob-
lem is that you don't know when
you will be able to stop. The com-
manders decide. I looked at the
girls and I couldn't believe that
they did it ... In the beginning, I
thought that we, the guys, would
have to push them, but as the ex-
ercise continued, and as it be-
come more difficult, not one of the
girls broke down. On the con-
trary, I saw a few of them grab-
bing the hands of guys who were
about to break and pushing them
up the hill."

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Returning A Favor

An Israeli pilot who was a
POW in Lebanon in 1982 re-
cently returned a favor to his cap-
tive.
No, Aharon Achiaz did not
take Ahdal Tzfdi hostage. In-
stead, he wrote a letter of rec-
ommendation to a military judge
in the West Bank on behalf of the
Palestinian, who was convicted

of stealing a car in Israel, Yediot
Aharonot reports.
Reading how well Mr. Tzfdi
treated the Israeli pilot during
the Lebanon War, the judge de-
cided to give a light sentence to
the thief, who is now an officer in
the Palestinian Authority police,
Yediot Aharonot reports.
The Palestinian officer will
spend a month in jail and pay a
$250 fine, according to Yediot
Aharonot.

I Want My STV

All Pinchas Ovdia wanted to
do was "expand his horizons" by
watching science programs on
television, Yediot Aharonot re-
ports.
But the 29-year-old prisoner
did not get his wish. The Haifa
Regional Court recently rejected
his request for cable television,
saying that the two regular chan-
nels are enough, Yediot Aharonot
reports.

Back Behind Bars

Ohed Kamin was recently re-
leased from prison, where he
served three months for tax eva-
sion. But the 43-year-old busi-
nessman may end up there again
soon.
He has no intentions to pay
taxes, he told Yediot Aharonot.
"If I start paying taxes, I will be-
come a participant in the corrupt
activities of the government and
I will lose my free spirit."
A follower of Ayn Rand, author
of The Fountainhead and Atlas
Shrugged, Mr. Kamin told Yediot
Aharonot that his rebellion
against the state includes more
than just tax evasion. He also re-
fused to serve in the Israel De-
fense Forces and has sent a letter
to the government asking to re-
move his name from the list of
citizens.
"I also owe the bank money, on
purpose, so that I could enter into
a conflict with it," he told Yediot
Aharonot. "One of the things we
have to fight here is the bank sys-
tem, through which the govern-
ment skins the citizens."
In Israel, the government is
a majority partner in most of the
banks. We could only imagine
what Ayn Rand would have said
about this. ❑

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