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December 30, 2019       Share:    

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/lone-female-grad-of-latest-iaf-pilot-course-says-judging-skin-gender-wont-fly/

Meet the IDF's Newest Female Pilot

(Times of Israel) Lt. Tav was the only woman to graduate this year from the Israel Air Force pilot's school. She told Channel 12 in an interview aired Friday: "The first thing you'll see is probably my [skin] color, or that I'm a girl or that I have braids. After a conversation of two sentences you'll see that isn't what I bring to the table; there are other things." Tav grew up in Jerusalem. Her father is from the Ivory Coast, her mother from France. "What really matters is how I am in the cockpit, how I am in working with a team, how professional I am," she said.

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