 Women are excluded from frontline infantry brigades which are actively deployed into combat zones and from serving as tank crews.Female ground combatants are limited to three mixed-gender infantry battalions (the Caracal, Lions of Jordan, and Bardelas battalions) which are deployed along Israel's border with Egypt, the Jordan Valley, and the Arava region to guard against infiltration and smuggling attempts, the IDF's Oketz K9 unit, the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps, and the Search and Rescue Unit of the Home Front Command.Although they are expected to respond if a combat situation breaks out during operational activity, female combat soldiers are not actively deployed into war zones.