Dank!

The IAF’s Air Defense Division is known for its high proportion of female soldiers, but last week one of its units made history with the appointment of a fourth female battery commander, giving it the title of the “most female battalion in the IDF.”

En natuurlijk
http://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2009/10/20/nahal-haredi/

“By law, all Israeli citizens are subject to conscription and it is the Defense Minister’s complete discretion to grant exemption to individual citizens or classes of citizens. A long-standing policy dating to Israel’s early years extends an exemption to all other Israeli minorities (most notably Israeli Arabs). However, there is a long-standing government policy of encouraging Bedouins to volunteer and offer them various inducements, and in some impoverished Bedouin communities a military career seems one of the few means of (relative) social mobility available. Also, Muslims and Christians are accepted as volunteers, even at an age greater than 18.[19]

From among non-Bedouin Arab citizens, the number of volunteers for military service—some Christian Arabs and even a few Muslim Arabs—is minute, and the government makes no special effort to increase it.”

(…)

“While options exist for Haredim to serve in the IDF in an atmosphere conducive to their religious convictions, most Haredim do not choose to serve in the IDF.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces#Minorities_in_the_IDF