Israeli Women On The Frontline In Border Patrols

ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN BORDER, ISRAEL - JUNE 12: Female soldiers from the Israeli army's Caracal battalion take a break in their Hummer between patrols June 12, 2007 along the Israeli-Egyptian border north of Eilat. Named after a wild cat, the light infantry battalion is the only mixed female-male fighting unit in the Israeli Defense Forces. With female commanders and fighters living and serving shoulder-to-shoulder with their male comrades, Caracal is currently assigned to protect Israel's southern frontier with the Sinai Desert where they face Bedouin smugglers, Palestinian infiltrators and even Darfur refugees seeking sanctuary in the Holy Land. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)