Soldier’s mother says ‘he gave up college’ for IDF

2 June 2015, 6:40 pm

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Osnat Levy, the mother of the lone soldier at the focus of the nonkosher sandwich scandal, tells Channel 2 that her son “gave up college” in order to join the IDF despite being “a very talented boy.”

“My mother made him a package for Shavuot… including sandwiches. A day later he told a friend [in the army] that there was pork in the sandwich. Somebody heard it and snitched, literally snitched to the commander,” Levi says.

She says her son’s commander was “vindictive” about the whole thing and told her son that he will “sit in prison until you understand what you did.”

Levy says that only calling Carmela Menashe, Israel Radio’s military reporter, turned the tide in her son’s favor.