{"id":612793,"date":"2021-08-05T13:06:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=612793"},"modified":"2021-08-05T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:06:35","slug":"record-number-of-women-join-israeli-border-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/record-number-of-women-join-israeli-border-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Number of Women Join Israeli Border Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frecord-number-of-women-join-israeli-border-police%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=612793&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"31.00283286119\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">More than 300 Israeli women to begin officer training<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-544038736-736x487-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-544038736-736x487.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-544038736-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-544038736-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-544038736-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-544038736-2048x1355.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-544038736-1400x927.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tAn Israeli border guard checks the identification cards of Palestinian Muslim women heading to pray at a religious site known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque and to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs, at a checkpoint in the flashpoint city of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, on July 1, 2016. <\/p>\n<p>A Palestinian woman attempted to stab an Israeli guard at a flashpoint West Bank shrine and was shot dead, Israeli police said, the third violent incident in two days.<\/p>\n<p> \/ AFP \/ HAZEM BADER        (Photo credit should read HAZEM BADER\/AFP via Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 August 5, 2021 12:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"64.393069306931\">\n<p><span>Israeli Border Police will train 320 women as recruits in the coming weeks, a record-breaking number of female officers for the force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Senior corps officials <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelhayom.com\/2021\/08\/05\/record-number-of-female-recruits-will-soon-be-protecting-israels-borders\/\"><span>told<\/span><\/a> <i><span>Israel Hayom<\/span><\/i><span> the influx will create the first majority-female companies in the Border Police&#8217;s history, with women in 65 percent of officer positions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The increased interest in defending Israel\u2019s border comes at a time when it is urgently needed. During the Gaza crisis in May, reports <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/israel-seizes-contraband-headed-to-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>emerged<\/span><\/a><span> of military contraband being seized before getting into the hands of Hamas-backed militants. The Jewish state has also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/israel-fends-off-attacks-on-its-northern-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fended off<\/a> attacks from drones on its northern border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Border Police&#8217;s popularity is rising. Data show 90 percent of Israeli recruits named the force a &#8220;high priority&#8221; as they decide assignments. For every ten individuals who want a spot in the patrol, only one spot is available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Border Police commissioner Amir Cohen applauded the shift in border patrol policy, telling recruits he hopes for an even stronger force going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I am proud to be in charge of the corps that is setting an example to all of society by integrating and training female officers,&#8221; Cohen said. &#8220;From now on, the responsibility lies on you, that of being a Border Police officer. May you carry it with pride until the end of your training and in your future service.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The first of the two majority-female companies of border officers will begin operations as soon as Aug. 21 after completing training. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News More than 300 Israeli women to begin officer training  An Israeli border guard checks the identification cards of Palestinian Muslim women heading to pray &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}