Month: February 2008

Today, Elie “graduates” from the Commanders Course and receives a higher rank in the army representing his new rank and training. Family-wise, it’s a hard […]

Reprinted from A Soldier’s Mother Yesterday, while driving to a special course in the north, my son received a phone call from one of the […]

Yesterday, while driving to a special course in the north, Elie received a phone call from one of the other participants in the Commanders Course […]

The army of Israel is very much a people’s army. Most Israelis have some connection to the army – a father, son, husband or brother […]

No one knows what tomorrow really holds. In the army, that is true not so much of tomorrow, but of the day after your current […]

Last week, on the way home from picking Elie up in Beersheva, he received a short phone call from his commanding officer. Later, he explained […]

There are many forms of charity defined in Judaism and many performed in Israel on a daily basis. There are people collecting in the streets, […]

It’s a very strange feeling, not knowing where your child is. It’s midnight here in Israel, just a little cold. Saturday night, clear. Yet another […]

My brother is visiting from the States. He very much wanted to see Elie and Elie very much wanted to see him. But the army […]