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…WithUs (SWU) Emerson Fellow at Michigan State University, I was privi- leged to bring to campus two Israeli soldiers who are on tour as part of SWU's "Israeli Soldiers Stories" tour. The soldiers also spoke at…
… the University of Michigan later that day. Today, there is an attempt to defame the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) with falsehoods and misinformation. There are many IDF soldiers who feel a deep sense of…
…WithUs and MSU Hillel. The event was open to ROTC cadets only because last year the SAFE (Students Allied for Freedom and Equality) group on campus staged a pro- test that disrupted the speeches. Critics…
… soon as he was drafted into the IDF. pital, but she knew that terrorists routinely He told participants about one particular tried using emergency vehicles to smuggle raid he was part of in a West Bank…
… town explosives into Israel. Lital's commitment near the Arab town of Jenin. to following protocol paid off, as His company surrounded she discovered explosive materi- a building and successfully als…
… under one of the benches. drove out the terrorists inside. At this moment, she said, she Meanwhile, in the back of realized just how important her the building, the other half work is. She wasn't even…
… sure of the company saw a group if the patient in the ambulance of unidentified Palestinian knew the explosives were there, residents. The commander, but she knew that if she had let Yonatan, announced…
…. "Nothing in your training can prepare After the escalation of rocket attacks in spring of 2011, the children began partici- you for the real thing:' he said. Yonatan pating in rocket drills similar to the…
… tor- was evacuated to a military hospital, where he later died of his wounds. The nado drills we had practiced in elementary Palestinian gunmen initially got away, but school. The Israeli children had…