(Israel Hayom) Itsik Saban - Female fighters have become an inextricable part of Israel's Border Police. They serve in the most sensitive areas: checkpoints, patrols, ambushes and arrests of terrorists. "We have a lot of motivation," says 1st Sgt. Chen Cohen. "There is fear, but it doesn't stop us. We know how to put aside our feelings, and when you're facing a threat, you operate the way you learned to operate." Currently some 700 women serve with the Border Police. Commanders argue that "the women's motivation is sky-high." The professionalism and heroism of the border policewomen were manifest during the terrorist attack at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate last Wednesday. Cpl. Hadar Cohen, 19, managed to shoot one terrorist who stabbed one of her fellow policewomen before she was shot to death by another terrorist.
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