Editing Israeli Air Force (section)

==Pilot selection and training==
[[File:Flickr - Israel Defense Forces - Landing and Take-Off Exercise (2).jpg|thumb|IAF Pilots sit atop an F-16D ''Barak'']]
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Thirty nine Israeli pilots have been credited with ace status, having shot down at least 5 enemy aircraft. Of these, 10 have shot down at least eight jet planes. The top ranking Israeli ace is Colonel [[Giora Epstein]], who shot down seventeen enemy planes. Epstein holds the world record for jet aircraft shot down, and the most aircraft of any type shot down since the [[Korean War]].

[[Israel Defence Forces]] had until 1995 denied women the opportunity to become pilots. In 1995, civilian pilot and [[aeronautical engineer]] [[Alice Miller (pilot)|Alice Miller]] successfully petitioned the Israel High Court of Justice to take the Israeli Air Force pilot training exams, after being rejected on grounds of gender. The court in 1996 eventually ruled that the IAF could not exclude qualified women from pilot training. Even though Miller would not pass the exams, the ruling was a watershed, opening doors for women in new IDF roles. After the prohibition had been lifted, the first female graduate was [[F-16]] navigator "Shari" in 1998, followed three years later by [[Roni Zuckerman]], the first female jet fighter pilot in IAF history.{{Sfn | Norton | 2004 | p = 105}}<ref>{{cite news|first= Lauren Gelfond|last= Feldinger|title= Skirting history|work= The Jerusalem Post|access-date= October 11, 2011|date= September 21, 2008|url= http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=114834|archive-date= December 21, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221221192954/https://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=114834|url-status= live}}</ref>

===Ranks===
IAF ranks are identical to other [[Israel Defense Forces ranks]]. The rank insignia are identical except for the use of silver against a dark blue background. The service's most senior-ranking active officer is the air force commander, which is the billet of a major general (''aluf''), and reports directly to the [[Chief of General Staff (Israel)|IDF Chief of Staff]].

====Officers====
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