Tag: Tzahal
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Small town feeding a small army, or: calling all Israeli mothers of Tzur Hadassah
Welcome to some good ole fashion small town love. Tzur Hadassah’s natural surroundings are a bit of a training ground for Tzahal ground troops. Every so often we’ll spot them midnight marching down our dead end street through the nature preserve, on their way to spend the night doing – whatever it is; the end…
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There goes the Lone Soldier.
There goes the Lone Soldier. Today I saw my brother off to his shlav bet compulsory 6-month IDF service. A bit anticlimactic as far as the mothers of 18-year-olds go. Actually, some were in various uniforms themselves. Maybe they’ve done it before. Maybe they’ve known this day would come for 18 years. There weren’t very…