Religious Women Fighters in Israel's War of Independence: A New Gender Perception, or a Passing Episode?

We, the religious pioneer movement, have brought about a revolution in the status of women in traditional religious society, without com- promising traditional Jewish morality within our society- and of that we are proud. We are proud of our women members, who carried out their duties under all circumstances- in the community, at work, and in war- as borne out by the women of the Etzion Bloc who were taken prisoner. But we are well aware of how great is the distance between the army and civil society