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From left to right: Cpl. Aleksandra Vodenskov, Sgt. Alexander Sachs, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sgt. Eddie Laufer in the prime minister's sukkah in Jerusalem, October 13, 2019 (Koby Gideon/GPO)
October 13, 2019, 6:21 pm
PM hosts lone soldiers at his sukkah
Netanyahu says holiday’s four species symbolize ‘the unity of the people that we need so much’
By TOI staff
President Rivlin meets with a with delegation of mothers of lone soldiers from North America on August 1, 2019. (Haim Zach, GPO)
August 1, 2019, 4:34 pm
President Rivlin meets with delegation of lone soldiers’ mothers
Approximately 6,500 soldiers without a familial support network currently serve in the IDF
By TOI staff and JTA
President Reuven Rivlin celebrates the Passover holiday with IDF lone soldiers, April 19, 2019. (Courtesy)
April 20, 2019, 6:01 am
Lone soldiers from 35 countries mark Passover with Rivlin, chief of staff
400 IDF personnel without family in Israel are hosted at coastal resort center for celebratory Seder
By TOI staff
Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of American lone soldier Alex Sasaki, during his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on March 28, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 28, 2019, 7:28 pm
Over a thousand Israelis attend funeral for American lone soldier
After Alex Sasaki found dead due to apparent drug overdose, lawmaker demands emergency Knesset session on ‘worrying trend’ of suicides among new immigrant enlistees
By Jacob Magid and JTA
Alex Sasaki (Courtesy)
March 28, 2019, 2:37 am
Social media campaign urges public to attend funeral of American lone soldier
Alex Sasaki from California to be buried Thursday at 11 a.m. on Mount Herzl; comrades from Golani Brigade unable to attend due to tense security situation
By TOI staff
Israeli soldiers visit the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery on the eve of Memorial Day, in Tel Aviv, April 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
March 5, 2019, 5:14 pm
Crowdfunding campaign launched for former lone soldier to be buried in Israel
Aaron Joseph Hill, 30, who served in the Golani Brigade for 2.5 years, was killed Sunday in a Colorado snowboarding accident
By Marcy Oster
Yoadd Zaguri. (Courtesy)
February 18, 2019, 4:38 pm
Soldier injured in Gaza clashes identified as Yoadd Zaguri of Los Angeles
Lone soldier’s girlfriend says he overcame numerous obstacles to serve in army; ‘he fought in order to enlist’
By TOI staff
Education Minister Naftali Bennett, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin with Zvi Levy, recipient of an Israel Prize for lifetime achievement, at the International Conference Center (ICC) in Jerusalem on May 2, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
December 29, 2018, 10:29 am
Zvika Levy, Israel Prize-winning ‘father of lone soldiers,’ dies aged 70
Founder of the Lone Soldiers organization in the late ’90s suffered from a muscular disease for several years
By TOI staff
Rabbi Eliyahu Merav speaks during funeral of his stepson Yosef Cohen on Demcember 14, 2018. Two soldiers, Yosef Cohen and Yuval Mor Yosef, were killed in a shooting terror attack at the entrance to the Israeli settlement of Givat Assaf, in the West Bank, the day before. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
December 14, 2018, 10:06 pm
A soldier’s death brings grief to Israeli army’s fervently religious battalion
Ultra-Orthodox soldiers, many who serve in the Netzah Yehuda battalion, often experience challenges of ostracism from their families and social pressure not to join the IDF
By Sam Sokol
American IDF veteran Jonathan Leibovits (center) in Syria fighting alongside YPG forges against IS jihadists in 2016. (screen capture: Channel 10)
July 22, 2018, 2:30 am
Ex-IDF soldier from California sneaked into Syria to fight Islamic State
Jonathan Leibovits says training from his days in the Givati Brigade helped prepare him for battle to capture key city of Manbij from jihadists
By TOI staff
Rony Yedidia Clein
July 19, 2018, 2:05 pm
Rony Yedidia Clein
40 years in Israel
Ulpan, army, kibbutz, moshav, and the public-private life of a diplomat… Israel has changed; so have I
Alex Singer, Michael Levin, Max Steinberg, three fallen IDF lone soldiers, who were commemorated at a ceremony in Jerusalem on April 17, 2018. (courtesy)
April 18, 2018, 6:34 pm
Fallen lone soldiers mourned as tiny Goliaths, true Zionists, talented artists
The mothers of two American-born IDF soldiers remember their sons, along with comrade of a third, at an English-language Memorial Day ceremony
By Judah Ari Gross
Elisa Levin Mindlin, sister of lone soldier Michael Levin who died in the Second Lebanon War in 2006, tells stories about her brother at an English language Memorial Day ceremony at Ammunition Hill on April 30, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
April 17, 2018, 8:10 pm
English-language Memorial Day event livestreamed for third year
Organized by Jerusalem’s Lone Soldier Center in memory of Michael Levin, event allows English-speakers in Israel and abroad to feel part of Israel’s national day of mourning
By TOI staff
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (L) and Immigration Absorption Minister Sofa Landver (R) pose for a picture with lone soldiers at an event in Tel Aviv on January 25, 2018. (Flash90)
March 14, 2018, 7:45 pm
Army found struggling to help ‘lone soldiers’; IDF: We’re working on it
New report details myriad ways military is failing to address needs of troops with no family support in Israel
By Judah Ari Gross
Yonason Goldson
December 15, 2017, 12:09 pm
Yonason Goldson
The soldier with really good table manners
The IDF has trained my son to respond to the unexpected, and navigate his way through life’s obstacles
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