Retired Brig. Gen. Israela Oron has spent almost 30 years in the army. During her military career and later in civilian life, she held a long list of key posts. In many, she was the first woman in the job, the one who broke the Israeli glass ceiling of uniquely male preserves.
That was the case in 1991, during the Gulf War, when she headed the operations department of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman unit and was the first woman to be appointed deputy spokesperson. The same was true when she began teaching at the National Defense College and again when she was named deputy director of the National Security Council.
