Singing in the Israeli Army

About halfway through our service on Shitim, a settlement in the middle of the Arava desert, the Israeli garin announced a theme night called, “An Evening for Love,” and I decided to contribute a musical solo by singing 2 well-known songs – “What I Did For Love” from the movie and Broadway hit musical “A [...]

I could hear Eli’s excited voice echoing through the telephone at the communications room known as “the kesher” at settlement Shitim. “When you gonna visit again?” he asked. Eli called! Eli called! Could it mean I finally get an Israeli boyfriend? That was all I could think about. No Israeli had I ever met for [...]

Perhaps you have been hearing of the rocket attacks fired from the Hamas into the South of Israel right now. The war on Israel. Prayers for peace. Need for a peaceleader like Yitzhak Rabin z"l who whispered peace. Now, Israel is on her own. We have no leader. All we have are pictures of a [...]

I am an Israeli soldier taking the first Friday bus up north to see my parents who just moved from the States to a settlement overlooking the Sea of Galilee known as Korazim. I reach high up for the blinds. My dogtag ID jingles. When I am satisfied with the right visibility length, I settle [...]

At the rental agency in Pittsburgh, I saw a woman trying to explain to a student (in English) where he needed to go in order to get settled into his new apartment. The woman kept explaining the directions over and over again in simple Engish so the young gentleman could understand. She used hand movements [...]

Vulnerability in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) during the Persian Gulf War If you read my first post of my memoir series, "An American Behind the Gun in the Israeli Army," you'll notice the words, "vulnerability" and "leadership." I'm now considering changing the title of the book to, "An Israeli Soldier I Wasn't Meant to [...]