Serial No 3817131 The Women of IDF

[Dukkha]

www.serialno3817131.com

"The life of an eighteen-year-old girl in Israel is interrupted when she is plucked out of her environment at an age when sexual, educational, and family values are at their highest exploration point. She is then placed in a rigorous institution, where individuality becomes a secondary matter, making room for nationalism. “I solemnly swear…to devote all of my strength and to sacrifice my life to protect the land and the liberty of Israel,” repeats the newly recruited soldier during her swearing-in ceremony. She enters the two-year period in which she will change from a girl to a woman, a teenager to an adult, all under a militaristic, masculine environment, and in the confines of an army that is engaged in daily war and conflict."

Rachel Papo photographs Israeli female soldiers during their mandatory military service portraying complexity of emotions. The artist served as photographer in the Israeli Air Force between 1988-1990, the project is titled after her own serial number.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

1. And look who's guns those are too; I wonder where they came from

:eyes: I don't know why we insist on arming everyone in the world

[Dukkha]

2. the photos are from 88-90

which is apparent from all the early M16A1s in there, and yes we were arming them heavily then.