Elinor Joseph is the first female Arab combat soldier in the IDF:“This will always be my home”
Elinor Josef is the first Arab female to serve in a combat unit in the Israeli Army.
“Look at the beret,” says Elinor, smiling from ear to ear, showing off the bright green beret that she earned after completing the trek which is part of her combat training in the Karakal Battalion. Her excitement is accompanied by a new historical precedent, since Elinor is the first Arab female combat soldier in IDF history.
Cpl. Elinor Joseph was born and raised in an integrated neighborhood of Jews and Arabs in Haifa, but attended a school in which all her classmates were Arab. She later moved to Wadi Nisnas, an Arab neighborhood where she currently lives.
Despite the fact that she would always wear her father’s IDF dog-tag around her neck from when he served in the Paratrooper’s Unit, she never thought she would enlist. “I wanted to go abroad to study medicine and never come back,” she said.
To her father it was clear that she would enlist in the IDF, as most citizens in Israel do. This was something that worried her very much. “I was scared to lose my friends because they objected to it. They told me they wouldn’t speak to me. I was left alone.”
Read more: IDF official site.
My comment:
Israel is often accused of being a racist state.
This young Arabian female is another proof, that the Jewish state treat their Arab minority with fairness and respect.
Welcome to service for human rights and freedom, Ms. Elinor Joseph. May God of Israel and His Messiah Jesus protect you and save you. Amen.
So that’s what’s under the burka’s, dang
Dear Ed.
Shalom.
I feel that was a cheep comment. This female is a sign of the mosaic of Israel. Israels first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion told the Arabs in Israel, please stay. And help us to build a Jewish homeland, where Jews, Muslims and Christians can live in peace.
Today, there a 2 million Arabs living inside the state of Israel, with full citizenship.
By the name of this female, I can say she most likely is an Arabian Christian (many nominal Arab Christians live inside Israel).
So where is the need to defame her with a question about an Islamic burka?
Please say sorry in your heart, Ed, and ask Jesus to forgive you.
Depends how you read it. It was more of a cut on Burkas than anything. But also noticing she is very attractive, that’s no crime. But Burka’s from what I’ve read are not scriptural at all in christianity. And being as Muhammed had a catholic wife I wonder if the similarity between burka’s and a nuns habit is a coincidence. I’ve read other places they use rosary beads as well. The bible says not to use repetition when you pray. Which makes sense because he is the living God, and not like talking to a tree.
Hey man, Isn’t a bit hypocritical to feature her in one of your articles. In another article you described how scriptures say God does not like women to dress in mens clothes and vice versa. Now, sure in the spirit we are all the same in christ but clothing is worldly and carnal. I don’t know why God cares what people wears but apparently he does?
Dear Ed.
A uniform is not “mens clothes “. It is battle equipment. Repent, dear brother Ed. Israel would not have existed today, if not both Jewish men and women had fought seven wars for her survival. Your comment is disgraceful.
A surgical female doctor, also has to dress properly, or an armed police woman. You have to be dressed for the occasion. To be a combat soldier is not a joke.
Dear Ed, I do agree that was a cheap shot. Women should always be treated with respect.
And to your response/question: “I don’t know why God cares what people wears but apparently he does?”
You should pray and repent. Your question borders on sarcasm, instead of someone who would genuinely want to know what God meant:
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this. (NIV, Deuteronomy 22:5)
My apologies to the women.
I didn’t mean any sarcasm. It truly interests me why things are the way they are. Like I found out that the reason God doesn’t like us to kill other people is that we are made in his image. Otherwise killing is ok, such as with animals but cruelty to animals is as much a crime as murder. Interesting.
I am just very curious about God.
Clear answers to the reasonings also help me ignore comments made by Oprah and the likes. She disses God for saying to stone disobedient children at the city gates. Need a good counter for that, but Soloman said to cut a baby in half when two women were fighting for custody. They never cut the baby in half though…
Dear Ed.
Shalom, by brother. I fully understand you.
But learn from the scriptures.
Luke 3:12-15.
12Tax collectors also came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”
13″Don’t collect any more than you are required to,” he told
them. 14Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?”
He replied, “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people falsely—be content with your pay.”
John the Baptists did not tell the soldiers, to lay down their arms and go home. God of the Bible has told the Jews to look after and defend Zion. Not to enlarge Zion, beyond the borders clearly drawn up by the Word of God. But surely to protect His land, and His chosen people.
If there was no IDF, there would not have been a restoration of the state of Israel. The state of Israel would have seized to exist within 24 hours.
If men like Hitler or Ahmadinejad is not stopped, there would simply be no Jew left on Planet Earth. If so, the Bible would have been proven a false Revelation.
Do you see what is at stake here?
The word of God is immutable. I’m a bit detached from your situation being non-jewish and living in America but; not everything is so straightforward. Like George Bushs’ grandfather was caught red handed running a bank funding Hitler during WWII, while his buddies were busy running a bank funding the allies. “The wicked man will always be attacked by another wicked man”. Suppose Hamas’ purpose is simply to provoke Israel to do evil against the Palestinians. When people like that fail to produce results funding and support for them gets cut off. Look at Al Gore. His Global warming failed to be a hit and now he’s in the news quite often for his activities with various massage therapists. If you can’t make peace on your own that leaves room for negotiators to step in.
Ed,
I’m a born again christian and living in America. I don’t know alot about the Jewish people, but I do know God’s plan for those that come to him. It’s written in his word. There are times that I don’t understand his word, and I’ve come to ask my pastor or do research. But through all and all, I understand why Jesus died on the cross for us.
God Bless you Ed.
What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning.
Interesting topic here about womens/men’s clothing. Does that mean women must wear skirts all the time??
‘Israel is often accused of being a racist state.
This young Arabian female is another proof, that the Jewish state treat their Arab minority with fairness and respect.’
This is an interesting comment …. especially that you say Arab’s are treated with fairness and respect, rather than say ‘equality’ for example. Or would that be too much to hope for?