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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

Garin Tzabar

Soldiers wave as they hold an Israeli flag on top of a tank near the border with Lebanon, October 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
May 5, 2025, 1:42 am
They came to serve: The lone soldiers defending Israel after Oct. 7
More than 1,100 new immigrants join the IDF this spring as antisemitism abroad and the trauma of the Hamas onslaught drive a new generation to enlist
By Stav Levaton
Yoav Ende teaching a class to Mechina students. (Hannaton Mechina Program)
December 10, 2024, 4:54 pm
Not just Orthodox or secular: New program offers lone soldiers a pluralistic home
The majority of immigrant soldiers from North America come from Reform or Conservative homes, and have had limited options until now
By Zev Stub
Gal, from California, at the newly-renovated new immigrant absorption center in Ra'anana where the young people on the Tzofim Garin Tzabar program will be based for the duration of their military service. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 23, 2024, 7:46 am
These young people from the Diaspora felt the call after Oct. 7 and joined the IDF
Jumping to action after the Hamas onslaught, people aged 18-23 have joined the Tzofim Garin Tzabar program in droves, getting help immigrating on their own and joining the military
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Some members of Garin Tidhar gathering in Israel, March 21, 2015. (Courtesy of Isaac Eyon/JTA)
May 4, 2015, 5:35 pm
Group of immigrants celebrates 33 years of being ‘family’
From near the Gaza Strip to the Golan, former members of a Nahal garin have supported each other through thick and thin
By Hillel Kuttler
New immigrants from USA and Canada arrive on a special 'Aliyah Flight 2014' on behalf of the Jewish Agency and the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben-Gurion airport in central Israel, August 12, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90)
August 14, 2014, 1:41 pm
Hard core of new immigrant soldiers is ready to serve
NBN flight this week brings 108 IDF recruits who have signed on for two-year Garin-Tzabar lone soldier program
By Diana Bruk
Ross Singer
July 14, 2013, 2:03 pm
Ross Singer
A different kind of hero
On speaking up against sexual harassment in the IDF
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents Israeli identity cards to Barak and Ro'i Gaibel, one of five sets of twins that made aliya on Tuesday (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)
August 14, 2012, 11:39 am
PM, Sharansky greet 351 US immigrants — including five sets of twins and two sets of triplets
127 of the arrivals, on Nefesh B’Nefesh anniversary flight, will be enlisting in the IDF
By Asher Zeiger
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