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Between January 1, 1950 and December 31, 1960, 1671 Israeli soldiers and other defense personnel lost their lives; of these, 51 were women. Of the 51 female military casualties, 30 were born in Eretz-Israel and 21 were born abroad. The article examines the lives and deaths of these female military casualties. Special focus is given to those who were immigrants and went through the dialectic process of assimilation versus alienation. In addition to examining the entire body of female military casualties and their collective profile, the article charts the differences between the native and immigrant female military casualties of the 1950s in a number of sectors: ethnicity, education, youth movement membership, army service branch, age at the time of death, date of death, cause of death, and methods of commemoration.
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089584
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Mediating mechanisms between the Religious-Zionist (or "national-religious") sector of Israeli society and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been discussed in scholarly publications. The focus of this essay is Jewish female soldiers from this social segment who choose to be drafted through the garin program conducted in three midrashot. The program combines traditional Jewish religious study in midrashot, women's study academies (batei midrash) with full military service, usually in the IDF's education corps. The garin program and the midrashot they originate from serve as mediating structures, assisting students during their military service. This essay describes the garin program. It also discusses why young religious women opt to join the IDF through such a program and what advantages this course of service offers to both recruits and the IDF. In its conclusion, the article notes that the garin program may be indicative of two phenomena worth further investigation: 1) the IDF as still embodying the consociational form that was once more evident in Israeli politics and 2) the growing "civilization" of the IDF rather than militarization of Israeli society.
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