Female Israeli soldiers with PTSD are fighting a battle on two fronts
Get email notification for articles from Yaniv Kubovich Follow Apr. 14, 2021 6:16 AM June 6, 2005, just after 6 A.M. At the Qalqilyah checkpoint is a long line of Palestinian cars waiting to take passengers from the West Bank to Israel, for work. Facing them are soldiers from Caracal, a combat battalion. One sees two Palestinian women entering a taxi that’s moving toward Israeli territory. She asks them for ID, and a scuffle breaks out. The commander of the checkpoint, Lauren Dagan Amos, one of the first female soldiers in Caracal, runs to help the soldier. “In the midst of the struggle ...