Gill or Gila Rosenberg is an Israeli woman who became internationally known when she became the first female foreigner to join the Women's Protection Units fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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Islamists claimed that Rosenberg had become an ISIL hostage, leading to significant additional press coverage.
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Gill Rosenberg was born in Canada and is reported to be from White Rock, British Columbia.
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Gill Rosenberg attended a Jewish high school in Vancouver and the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
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Gill Rosenberg had worked as a pilot on Boeing passenger aircraft.
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Gill Rosenberg moved to Israel and acquired Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return, living in Tel Aviv.
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In Israel Gill Rosenberg joined the Israel Defense Forces from 2006 to 2008 as a volunteer where she served a SAR NCO and instructor at the Home Front Command's Search, Rescue and Civil Defense School.
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In 2009, Gill Rosenberg was arrested, extradited to the United States, and pleaded guilty for participating in a telemarketing lottery fraud.
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Gill Rosenberg gained international press coverage as the first foreign woman to join Kurds battling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria or Iraq.
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The paper pointed out that Gill Rosenberg breached Israeli law by flying to Iraq, an enemy country, which Israeli citizens are forbidden to enter; the Israeli government had cracked down on those going to fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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In late November 2014 militants on social media started claiming that Gill Rosenberg has been captured, along with several other female fighters by ISIL perhaps during the Siege of Kobani.
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Gill Rosenberg returned to Israel on 12 July 2015 after 6 months in Syria and Iraq.