Tag Archive for Caracal Battalion

| September 8, 2015
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IDF Unit Picked to Fight Invading ISIS Horde Mostly Female Warriors

 

IDF’s famed Caracal Battalion has been trained to be the 1st to engage ISIS infiltrators from Sinai, which consists of 70% female combatants that will ‘shame & dishonor’ their attackers, closing any path to ‘Paradise’.

By Israel Today Staff

 

How and when will the burgeoning ISIS forces in Sinai act against Israel? For the past year this question has troubled the Israeli intelligence community, which has struggled to provide a satisfactory answer.

The reason it is difficult to get a firm read on the situation is that this particular branch of ISIS is operating in a compartmentalized and largely unorganized manner in a huge open desert with the support of local Bedouin smugglers. Continue Reading »

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| October 22, 2014
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2 IDF soldiers wounded on Israel-Egypt border

Large Israeli forces sweeping the area to eliminate possible terrorist infiltration from the Sinai.

Unrelated: 5 IDF soldiers injured when their jeep flips over nearby.

 

Two soldiers were wounded on Wednesday in a shooting incident near the border with Egypt, the Israeli military confirmed.

Wounded soldiers being evacuated to the Soroka Medical Center, Be'er Sheva.

Wounded soldiers being evacuated to the Soroka Medical Center, Be’er Sheva, October 22, 2014.- Photo: Eliyahu Hershkovitz

The two were soldiers from the mixed Caracal infantry battalion, one of them a female company commander. They were evacuated by helicopter to the Soroka Medical Center, Be’er Sheva.

Large forces were immediately mobilized to the area, near Azuz. Continue Reading »

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| May 30, 2014
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PHOTO ALBUM: IDF Female combat soldiers mark end of training with 20k march

The IDF’s Caracal Battalion is a combat infantry battalion charged with patrolling the Israeli-Egyptian border and composed of both Jewish & Arab, male & female soldiers.

Israeli soldiers of the Caracal battalion carry their comrade on a stretcher. (Reuters)

 

Israeli soldiers of the Caracal battalion carry their comrade on a stretcher. (Reuters)

Israeli soldiers of the Caracal battalion help their comrade. (Reuters)

 

Israeli soldiers of the Caracal battalion carry their comrade on a stretcher. (Reuters)

 

An Israeli soldier of the Caracal battalion rests after finishing a 20k march. (Reuters)

Israeli soldiers of the Caracal battalion rest after finishing a 20k march.

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