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IDF presents: 3 new female pilots
Yossi Yehushua
Published: 22.12.05, 09:02
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1. Great examples!
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (12.22.05)
I had the privilege of working during the mid '70s in a business where one of the women pilots from the War of Liberation was a partner. Israel was lesser for letting decades go by without allowing women to become pilots.
2. high heels at the pedals... hmmm
richard Hitchings ,   methil   (12.22.05)
Hmmm hard to imagine this, are they pretty?? Maybe they macho types lezies,... Hmmm perhaps
3. to 2
excuse me?   (12.22.05)
is this the only function women can have, be pretty and wear high heels?? and even if this is so, it can be combined with special skills like excellent flying. show some respect.
4. Great news
hiram ,   tel aviv   (12.22.05)
I find this remarkable that in a world traditionally devoted to men ( sometimes machistic men ! ) women have found their way to the top. Women are ALSO excellent pilots in the civilian world ( airlines) so why not at the controls of a fighter plane ? If they have made it through the "top gun" equivalent in IAF, they must be DAMN good....as we know how difficult is the position of women in a traditional middle east society ( including Israel )...I am glad for them....The selective world of fighter pilots is no more a "men only" affair and it is the way it should be...
5. Good on them!
Robert Goldman ,   cooper city Florida   (12.22.05)
Good to see this! Now I just wonder if they are as hot as the other girls in the IAF?;-)
6. Kol hakavod banot!! :D
Yakir   (12.22.05)
7. Go get 'em, girls!! *ROAR*
Michael Steiner ,   EU   (12.22.05)
8. Mazal Tov! Mazal Tov!
Roger ,   USA   (12.22.05)
G-d bless Israel and all defenders of Israel!
9. Air Pirates in skirts and heels
richard Hitchings ,   methil   (12.22.05)
Look guys ... this is the truth... These young ladies have no business being in a IDF skirt and at the same time flying bombing missions to flatten Palestinian resistance... Often Mistakes are made...and so they kill People on the ground who they may regret they kill..... They are just air pirates in Skirts and heels... further more this is not what being a young lady is about..... They should be home having barins and looking after their man....
10. Richard M's love life
Gil ,   Tel Aviv   (12.22.05)
must be pretty poor if this is his how he relates to the opposite sex.
11. Good news, but the air force is overrated, and over-budgeted
Tahl ,   Israel   (12.22.05)
Training dozens of new pilots each year costs a fortune to the Israeli taxpayers, at a time when the importance of a mighty air force, in the new political and security situation in the region - is at an all-time nadir. We no longer face potential annihilation from neighboring countries, like we did in '67 and '73, and we no longer need to pull out massive strikes in Lebanon like in the 80s and 90s. There isn't any country we're going to bomb anytime soon, certainly we won't engage in such an adventure against Iran, alone. The airforce's main task these days is to intercept aircrafts which might potentially be a threat to Israel, like 11/9, intercept suspicious vehicles in Gaza and the West Bank, and also serve as a deterrent. For this, we do not need - 50? 100? new air force cadettes each year. Think of the millions that could have gone to buy medication to the needy. As for the story here, kol hakavod to these women, they earned their place fairly. But one needs to keep in mind - if women can be air force pilots, then why not Golani and Givati fighters as well, exactly like the male fighters? Why only train for the creme-de-la-creme? Equality is all-or-nothing.
12. Richard, you're a jerk...
Yakir   (12.22.05)
The IDF doen't take people (doesn't matter what gender) who don't fit into their work. Plus, these ladys chose by themselves to do this. A good friend of mine from tel-aviv (female) is just right now in the idf pilot course. She's so strong, mentaly, personally and whatever, that you would look like a stupid ant next to her. You realy should go to israel meet some real people... it's israel dude, not some other country ;-) oh yea, im proud and arogant, before you reply
13. Yak... stay cool dude
richard Hitchings ,   methil   (12.22.05)
Tell yer pal to give me a call and I ll talk her out of it Proud arrogant no prob with me I make a point of being the same
14. Kol hakavod Hayalot!
(12.22.05)
Fly safe, you make us proud!
15. What a talkback. Brave women and a "male"
Bunnie Meyer ,   Santa Monica, CA   (12.23.05)
chauvenist dingbat. Richard needs a burly dyke with a sharp knife to show him something he has never seen, the other end of that useless thing.
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