After my final arrest mission, I did a week or so of other missions. We caught two Palestinians with an M16: Tried to…

My army service is coming to an end and even though I still don’t know when my hofshash (mandatory vacation before I finish…

The next day, we went to the field to do a standard company test. It’s similar to what I described in my last…

The last week on our base in the Golan Heights was part aimless, and part full of the usual give 110%. We closed…

Twice a year, every brigade has to go through a period of military exercises called “imun”. The Kfir brigade has been in imun…

Many of the people I served with in the Israeli Army have asked me “Why didn’t you join the U.S. Army?” The answer…

Having finished moslul (our first Kav), and the short period of exercises my battalion (Lavi) was doing in Kriyat Gat, my platoon got…

We spent two weeks in Kriyat Gat. The first morning there, we went to the shooting range and began various shooting exercises. Unlike…

As we checked our gear, cleaned the base we called ours for four months, and packed all the equipment onto army trucks, we…

After returning from my 30 days vacation at home, I became quite used to not carrying a rifle everywhere. It didn’t take more…