Today, on International Womens Day, we share the stories of incredible Israeli Wonder Women. 

One of them is Dr. Ruth, renowned sex therapist and IDF sniper.

Born in Germany to a Jewish family, as the Nazis came to power Westheimer's parents sent her at 10 years old to an orphanage in Switzerland for safety. 

Her parents were subsequently sent to concentration camps by the Gestapo, and killed. 

After World War II ended, she immigrated to British-controlled Mandatory Palestine. 

Despite being only 4 feet 7 inches (1.39 m) tall and 17 years of age, she joined the Haganah, and became a scout and sniper. 

On her 20th birthday, Westheimer was seriously wounded in action by an exploding shell during a mortar fire attack on Jerusalem during the 1947–1949 Palestine war, and almost lost both of her feet.