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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/opinion/border-wall-israel-lebanon-egypt.html
What Real Border Security Looks Like
(New York Times) Bret Stephens - On Wednesday while traveling along the Israel-Lebanon border, I saw a fence studded with sensors. Earlier that day, at an Israeli military base on the Golan Heights, I visited a bunker-like structure where 20 women soldiers, some of them still teenagers, sat at screens patiently watching every inch of Israel's border with Syria, noticing patterns, prioritizing potential threats, and relaying information to operators in the field. Why an all-female unit? Because the Israeli military has determined that women have longer attention spans than men. Last August, the unit spotted seven Islamic State fighters, wearing suicide belts and carrying grenades, as they were infiltrating a no-man's land on their way to Israel. An airstrike was called in. The men never reached the border.