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Westheimer joined the Haganah Jewish Zionist underground paramilitary organization (later, the Israel Defense Forces) in Jerusalem.[29][28][30] Because of her diminutive height of 4 feet 7 inches (140 cm), she was trained as a scout and sniper.[27][30][31] Of this experience, she said, “I never killed anybody, but I know how to throw hand grenades and shoot.”[32] She became an ace sniper, and learned to assemble a rifle in the dark.[27][14] When she was 90 years old, she demonstrated that she was still able to put together a Sten gun with her eyes closed.[33]
In 1948, on her 20th birthday, Westheimer was seriously wounded in action by an exploding shell during a mortar fire attack on Jerusalem during the 1948 Palestine war; the explosion killed two girls who were right next to her.[34][30][26] Temporarily paralyzed and with two injured feet (one missing a top portion), she spent months in a recuperative ward before walking again.[35][36][37] In 2018 she said that she still visited Israel every year, and felt that it was her real home, and the following year said that she was and is a Zionist.[26][38]