Far different situation in Israel..briefly, to understand the history of women in combat forces in Israel at the time of the founding of the Jewish state, Israel was surrounded on all sides by Arabs whose stated objective was to push Israel into the ocean and kill every Jew..man, woman, and child. The Israeli forces were outnumbered by what, 20:1, 30:1...some ungodly ration. So women were intended to fill whatever non-combat positins they could do, to free up all males for teh the front lines. In Israel, originally, EVERYTHING was the front lines, so that distinction rapidly faded. Also, any female Israeli soldiers that might be captured, would, quite frankly, have been far better off dead, and to that end they needed to be at least somewhat combat capable..firearms..to take out s many SArabs as possible before succumbing themselves...
Actually, I think the odds were even worse than that. I don't know any actual numbers but my guess would be that there were about 7 Arab armies converging on Israel. Each army was between 100,000 and 300,000 trained & armed men. They attacked the newly born nation that had around 30,000 Jewish adults, (important because the Arabs were there to destroy the jews so no arab who lived in Israel would help the jews, infact they almost all left so they wouldn't get hit in crossfire creating the homeless Palestinian refugees) hardly any trained fighters (maybe 10% of the men would be about 1,500) and they had hardly any weaponry since it was all outlawed by the then brittish occupiers.
I think the actual numbers are in a book I have at home so I can get them if anyone wants facts instead of guesses.... Hardly needed when the purpouse of the thread is too see beautiful women in fatigues......