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Kobiety w izraelskiej armii – trudy codzienności
Women in Israel Defense Forces – daily problems

Author(s): Magdalena Pogońska-Pol
Subject(s): Military history, Social history, Gender history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: woman in army; Israel army; conscription; combat units

Summary/Abstract: In the years before Israel’s establishment, later during the War of Independent (first Arab- -Israeli war 1948), women fought with men in the paramilitary units (Haganh, Irgun). In 1949 Knesset passed the Security Service Law. In this document women service was determined to non combat rules. The paper analyzes women position in the Israeli army, rules of conscription to the army, breakthrough in the army related to Alice Miller case (1995) and then new challenged to the IDF-women in combat units.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 102
  • Page Range: 199-212
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish