lieutenant sivan ben ezra, a 22-year-old deputy company commander in the israeli army's caracal battalion, is seen against the background of an egyptian army frontier post during her evening patrol june 12, 2007 along the israeli-egyptian border north of eilat. named after a wild cat, the light infantry battalion is the only mixed female-male fighting unit in the israeli defense forces. with female commanders and fighters living and serving shoulder-to-shoulder with their male comrades, caracal is currently assigned to protect israel's southern frontier with the sinai desert where they face bedouin smugglers, palestinian infiltrators and even darfur refugees seeking sanctuary in the holy land.
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