For the first time, the Israeli military has allowed women to work as fighters in the 669th Special Rescue Unit, against the background of a petition filed by four Israeli female soldiers with the Supreme Court at the end of 2020.
Six years after her predecessor gave the first green light, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi has agreed to include women in combat duties in the select Israeli Air Force, the 669th Special Rescue Unit.
“The Air Force will open its doors to women to choose combat roles in Unit 669, thus enabling better use of human capital in the military,” an Israeli army spokesman said. Within the scope of the discussions that took place after the screening of a professional staff for
It is noteworthy that the 669th Israeli Air Force unit for medical evacuation, formed in 1974, is considered one of the Israeli special forces.
It is a unit composed of highly trained and highly qualified fighters in special forces tactics, as well as soldiers with a high level of medical training, and takes 18 months to train, and the soldiers in the unit enlisted for an additional 16 months of service. . in addition to the mandatory 30 months.
Although it is a military unit, it also performs duties related to civilians. The duties of this unit include: rescue of stranded military forces from the battlefield, evacuation of the wounded from the battlefields, rescue and evacuation of wounded civilians in tour areas and nature trails throughout Israel, rescue of naval personnel stranded on warships, commercial or civilian vessels, and Remembrance operations .perform. Aerial inspection of suspicious sites.
Source: ynet + jerusalem post
Source: Arabic RT
