Posts Tagged: IDF Lone Soldiers
Mothers of IDF Lone Soldiers Reunite With Sons, Daughters in Jerusalem
JNS.org - Thirty-five mothers of lone soldiers currently in Israel on a special trip with the Momentum organization thought they were attending an educational seminar...
Future Lone Soldiers Land in Israel on Two Group Flights
JNS.org - Two flights of new olim arrived in Israel this week—one on Monday and another on Tuesday—with 78 lone soldiers headed for service in the...
Some 270 Lone Soldiers Begin IDF Service as Israel Turns 72
JNS.org - Nearly 270 lone soldiers were drafted into the Israel Defense Forces on Thursday, following Israel’s 72nd Independence Day. The new recruits included Jewish men...
1,000-Plus IDF Lone Soldiers From US to Stay on Base for Passover
JNS.org - More than 1,000 US natives serving as lone soldiers, those who join the Israel Defense Forces with no immediate family in Israel, have...
New Initiative Enlists Lone IDF Soldiers to Combat BDS on Campuses in North America, Europe
JNS.org - A new initiative is enlisting Israel Defense Forces lone soldiers (those without immediate family members in the country) as volunteers to combat the anti-Israel Boycott,...
IDF Project Seeks to Make Life Easier for Israeli Soldiers
I'm a 31-year-old Jewish American female. I was never drafted to the army, never enlisted and never trained or served in a combat unit during a...
Bringing Campus Battle Skills to Front Lines of Jewish State, US College Grads Enlist in IDF
A group of US college graduates is taking its fight on behalf of the Jewish state from the campus battlefield to Israel’s front lines, a number of them told...
Christian-Jewish Aid Group Donates $8.5 Million to IDF
JNS.org - The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) will donate $8.5 million to the Israeli Defense Forces to help families in need and lone...
IDF Lone Soldier Killed in Gaza Honored With Torah Dedication
JNS.org - A year after his death in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge, IDF lone soldier Max Steinberg was honored with a Torah scroll dedication ceremony...
IDF Rescinds Punishment for Soldier Who Brought Ham Sandwich on Base
JNS.org - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has rescinded a punishment levied against an American-born "lone soldier" (the term for members of the IDF...
Ben-Gurion U. Scholarship Fund Named for Late IDF Lone Soldier Max Steinberg
JNS.org - American supporters of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) on Sunday introduced the Max Steinberg Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund, named for one...
For Israeli Families Bereaved by Gaza War, a ‘Lonely Journey’ is Still in its Early Stages
JNS.org - "There isn't a day that I don't think about him. That I don't think of my pain and the pain of the...
El Al Reunites Parents of Lone Soldiers From ‘Protective Edge’ for Rosh Hashana
In a special initiative to enable families to spend the Jewish New Year together, an airlift of 21 flights from El- Al Airlines flying from...
Yankees President Hosts 40 Youths Headed to Join Israeli Army
New York Yankees President Randy Levine and his wife Mindy hosted some 40 young men and women at Yankee Stadium on Sunday who are making...
