One Of Two Women Promoted To Senior Roles In The IAF

The Israeli Air Force has named a woman to command an aviation squadron for the first time. Identified only as Major Tet for security purposes, she will be the "first female pilot to have this position and to have this rank,” according to a statement from the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.

Maj. Tet will be promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and head a squadron of transport planes, according to a report form The Jerusalem Post.

A second woman, identified only as Major Mem, has been appointed to command the IAF’s Operational Command and Control Unit and is being promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. According to the IDF statement, she will be the first female air traffic controller to reach that rank.

Those promotions follow one in November in which a woman was appointed deputy commander of a combat squadron. The unnamed officer is an F-15 navigator and will serve in the Spearhead Squadron, which flies F-15 fighter jets out of Tel Nof Airbase in central Israel.

Two other female officers have been appointed to command squadrons of UAVs that operate out of Palmahim Airbase near Rishon Lezion.

FMI: Original report