[SoCal Pubbie]

That may be so, but the IDF has female ground pounders among their ranks, for better or worse.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2018/0208/Why-mixed-gender-combat-units-are-on-the-rise-in-Israel

This from a month ago!

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Female-combat-soldiers-in-light-infantry-units-to-be-exempt-from-reserves-603959

77% of this combat battalion are female:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracal_Battalion

I am NOT in favor of this but one simply can no longer use the IDF as an example of a military force of all male foot soldiers.

[familyop]

"77% of this combat battalion are female:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracal_Battalion"

Yes, but feminist propagandists do deceive. On the Caracal,...

Israeli women’s combat roles exaggerated, military traditionalists say
The Washington Times
By Rowan Scarborough
May 25, 2015
[Excerpt:]
"Nor are they in front-line combat brigades mobilized to engage in direct heavy combat. In the infantry, virtually all of Israel’s female combat soldiers are confined to two light battalions — the Caracal and the Lions of Jordan — which are assigned to guard the borders with Egypt and Jordan, the only Arab countries that have peace treaties with Israel."