The six-week-long sniper's course was previously considered one of the last 'male bastions' in the army, but, according to the Ma'ariv daily, 13 of the 16 participants in the last round of training were women. The daily reported that women snipers stationed on the border between Israel and the Sinai peninsula recently prevented a half a tonne of drugs from entering Israel, when they took out two drug smugglers from a distance of one kilometre.

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