During the H3 Podcast Episode 33 Ethan interviews Hila about her time in the IDF. Hila says that she was first given a desk job but had then requested to be placed with a brigade because she thought it was too boring and she wasnted to do something more exciting.
Hila eventually joined the Kfir Brigade, more specifically the Duchifat Battalion. This video gives you an idea of what these battalions are like and how they view themselves as this
video was shot and edited by one of their soldiers: More information on the Brigade and Battalion:
Kfir Brigade &
Duchifat Battalion.
During the podcast Hila says she doesn't know what her position was called but that she worked directly under the "main officer". Ethan then suggests she might have been a secretary. However, this isn't true.
Hila was actually a corporal in the Duchifat Battalion and had completed at least 8 months of combat training.
The first bit of proof we have for this is Hila's beret.
In order for IDF soldiers in the Kfir Battalion to earn their spotted beret they must complete 8 months of combat training and must march 70km.
Here Hila can be seen with the beret tucked under her jacket's shoulder strap.
Hila can also been seen with a beret here but it is the standard IDF "general corps" green and not the multi spotted Kfir Battalion beret. Based off this we can conclude that these photos we most commonly see of Hila serving were all taken in the first few months.
[EDIT: adding more information]
Not everyone in the Kfir Brigade is awarded the multi-coloured camo beret.
Here you can see members of the Brigade, most of which do not have that beret but the standard green one instead.
Hila's photo's that were in the "How We Met At The Holocaust Museum" video show that Hila had the rank of Corporal. However, although this sounds significant it probably isn't as it seems to be a rank given automatically to soldiers after a set nr of months and she probably reached an even higher rank than this before leaving the army.
Sources:
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces_ranks https://www.militaer-wissen.de/ranks-of-the-israeli-army/?lang=en
Next is a photo of another woman who was in the same brigade Hila was in; the Kfir Brigade. You can see that it's the same patch and that it's the same as shown in the examples in the previous links.
Hila claims that she only posed with other soldier's firearms for photos and that she had a non active role in the army. In reality, the army doesn't hand out stripes, berets, or pins for fashion reasons. Hila earned those and was at the very least trained in combat.
