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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: September 17, 2007 |
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The IDF is to review an internal report slated for submission that proposes broad changes regarding the roles of female soldiers, offering equal opportunity to serve in all army units, including elite commando wings, according to Haaretz.
The commission is suggesting the IDF no longer exclude women from any unit because of their gender, and that men and women drafted for compulsory military duty should serve for the same length of time.
"The heart and soul of the army is combat and if we are in the army we need to be at its heart," retired general Yehudit Ben-Natan, who headed the now-defunct Women's Corps, told the radio. "Let there be tanks with all-female crews and all-woman missile batteries, because we can do it and we must stop allocating duties by gender."
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