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THE JEWISH NEWS
Giving Women A Shot
As Combat Trainers
BOAZ DVIR SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
I
n the Israel Defense Forces,
many female soldiers and of-
ficers serve as trainers in
combat units. But the female
troops never took part in actual
fighting, only training.
This is about to change. The
IDF recently started training
women to fight in combat. The
army's border patrol unit has
been teaching 30 female soldiers
to shoot machine guns, storm
buildings and survey land, ac-
cording to Yediot Aharonot.
Those who will successfully
complete the course will go on
real missions along the borders.
If this experimental project
works out, the IDF border patrol
unit will recruit 150 more female
soldiers for the next course,
Yediot Aharonot reports.
So far, the course has been
working out better than expect-
ed, the commander told Yediot
Aharonot.
"In the beginning, we thought
this would fail. But now, it is
clear that it is a success story,"
the commander said, noting that
the female soldiers have been
shooting with 87 percent accu-
racy — about the same as the
men.
"The women are at the level,
or even higher, than the men, at
least when it comes to subordi-
nation," he said. "It's easier to
train them than the men."
The women love it. Twenty-
one-year-old Jessica, who re-
cently moved to Israel from the
United States, told Yediot
Aharonot, "I didn't want to
spend two years of my life as a
receptionist in an office. This is
the best place for women in
the army. I am handling the
weapons very well, and I feel as
strong as a man."
Maybe stronger ...
Killer Mermaids
In the 1970s, for the first and
last time, the IDF placed 10 fe-
male soldiers in its most difficult
course — the frogmen's tortur-
ous basic training.
Eight of the women made it
— a far higher success rate than
the men. Four of them went on
to serve in non-combat, but dan-
gerous missions in the Red Sea,
according to Yediot Aharonot.
Officially, the IDF decided to
stop inducting women in the
course because the 1979 peace
treaty with Egypt lessened the
pressure on this elite unit, re-
ducing the number of positions
it had to fill, according to Yediot
Aharonot.
So the frogmen never again
had to share the glory of be-
longing to this highly exclusive
group with the "nymphs of the
sea," as they called the frog-
women, according to Yediot
Aharonot.
"It was a wonderful course,
but in retrospect, I would not re-
peat it, because it was very dif-
ficult," frogwoman Dorit Ronan
told Yediot Aharonot. "It insult-
ed the [male] fighters that we
were doing what they were do-
ing — it diminished their pres-
tige."
The hardest part of the
course, however, was not deal-
ing with chauvinism. It wasn't
the 20-hour days of non-stop
training in and out of the water.
It was not knowing when the
course would end.
Unlike other IDF courses, this
one has no set time frame. It can
go on for months, according to
Yediot Aharonot.
Nevertheless, all the women
except for Ms. Ronan, who now
lives in the United States, said
they would have done it again.
Interestingly, they never went
scuba diving after leaving the
IDF.
Never Going Back
Galia Boneh may never re-
turn home from Africa.
The 21-year-old anthropology
student recently went on a six-
month University of Minnesota
program in Kenya. But she has
adjusted so well to life with a lo-
cal tribe that she plans to stay
several more years, possibly for-
ever, she told Yediot Aharonot.
"God only knows how I will be
able to leave this place one day,"
Ms. Boneh said.
She has quickly learned their
language and is working with
the children, helping to cook and
sew and doing whatever it takes
to convince the tribe that despite
her skin color, she fits in.
So far, her efforts are paying
off. She has been officially adopt-
ed by the tribe.
She told Yediot Aharonot that
she has never been happier. "I
have changed so much that
sometimes I can't remember
how I used to be." ❑
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