Israeli military gets first female combat-battalion commander
Maj. Oshrat Bachar to head a field intelligence battalion, which operates along the Egyptian border.
For the first time, a woman is to lead a combat battalion in the Israel Defense Forces. Maj. Oshrat Bachar has been assigned to the Eitam field intelligence battalion, which is attached to the army’s Southern Command. Bachar will take command of the battalion this summer, after completing her studies at the IDF General Staff and Command College.
She will be the second commander of the battalion, which was formed just two years ago and which operates along Israel’s border with Egypt.
Bachar most recently served as operations officer for the IDF’s field intelligence academy. Before that, Bachar served as company commander in the Nesher field intelligence battalion, also in the southern command, and as head of the integration unit in the office of the Women’s Affairs Advisor to the Chief of Staff.
Bachar and her husband, Maj. Ohad Bachar of the IDF Engineering Corps, have a 7-year-old daughter. In an interview with an IDF periodical last year, he was quoted as saying that both he and his wife “aspire to be battalion commanders.”
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