For the most part, these are new immigrants who came home to the Jewish state without their immediate family. But there are also other, native-born Israelis in the army who for different reasons do not live with or have any family around.
Tzvika Levy made it his life’s mission to care for these soldiers. His voluntary work started in 1983, when Levy began taking the cases of young people whom the army declined to recruit. He helped them find a way to serve. Levy soon found a supporter in then-IDF Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan. In 1994,...
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