יום שישי, א׳ אלול תשפ״וFriday, August 14, 2026
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These Thanksgiving dinners are part of Nefesh B’Nefesh’s return to in-person events, helping Olim acclimate.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The majority of the new arrivals hailed from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California.
Since the beginning of April 2020, 3,495 Aliyah applications were submitted to Nefesh B’Nefesh.
By JNi.Media
Some 7,000 Lone Soldiers from 80 countries serve in the IDF.
PM Netanyahu visits an IDF Golani base over Sukkot and Skypes with the mother of one of the Lone Soldiers on the base.
Naftali Bennett: Israel will bring parents of lone soldiers to Israel to visit their children and see Israel.
By JNi.Media
The flight included a diverse mix of people from 22 US states and one Canadian province, including 24 families, 78 children and 10 medical professionals.
By JNi.Media
Some of the funds are designated for encouraging entrepreneurship among new immigrants from France, Belgium, and Ukraine.
Ten years after the death of her son Michael, an American-born IDF soldier who fell in battle, Harriet Levin is still learning to cope.
Israeli lone soldier Eliezer First surprised his girlfriend Rachel Shechter with an engagement proposal.
Grab your tissues. Mindi Levine Gordon hasn't seen her son, Menachem Mendel Gordon, in 18 months. Standing Together 24/7 IDF flew her in to be there as her Lone Soldier graduates and earns his red Paratroopers beret!
Mazel Tov to two lone IDF soldiers, Moshe Rosen and Helen Marcus, on their engagement.
“I cried not because I had to undergo surgery, but because I had to leave the army.”
By Sam Maizlech
David transcended adversity to become a leader; Who are we to make excuses for a lack of greatness?
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
An airlift of 21 flights from El- Al Airlines flying from 10 different international locations, are bringing parents of lone soldiers serving in the IDF to Israel.
By Aryeh Ho
We talked about the responsibility that comes with the pen, its potential to influence and inspire.
The free-spirted lifestyle didn’t hold your interest; the needs of your people did.
The body of a 21-year-old Ohio native serving as a lone soldier in the IDF was found on Tuesday, two days after he was reported missing, military spokesmen announced. Corporal David Menachem Gordon of the Givati Brigade was found with his personal Tabor rifle beside him. He had last been at the Tzrifin army base […]
By Batya Medad
IDF volunteers come to Israel just to serve are the true idealists; Sean Carmeli was one of them.
Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni said Tuesday that the funeral of Jordan Ben-Simon, a lone IDF soldier killed in Gaza yesterday, would be limited to 300 attendees due to the threat of rocket attacks. Following the outpouring of support for lone soldiers yesterday, when more than 20,000 people created a mass funeral for lone soldier Sean Carmeli, […]
By Shalom Bear
There was concern, since Carmeli was a lone soldier, that not many people would show up for his funeral. But more than 20,000 people showed up.
Fifty lone soldiers and over 200 young professional Olim celebrated “Thanksgivukkah" at a festive event organized by Nefesh B'Nefesh and White City Shabbat.
Israel’s Garin Tzabar program, supporting ‘lone soldiers’ with no family in Israel, recently welcomed close to 360 young women and men from around the world into its care.
Following their dreams, young men and women from North America start a new life in Israel, joining the Israel Defense Forces as “lone soldiers.”
By JTA
A new home for Lone Soldiers in Israel was opened in Ramat Gan with a special ceremony marking the conclusion of the $5 million project launched by Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, headed by Elias and Lila Kalimian and family of Great Neck, N.Y. Thousands of young men and women from around the world […]
Nira Lee grew up in Tempe, Arizona as a Zionist but firmly planted in the USA, until she saw the destruction following the Second Lebanon War during a visit to Israel. Now she is Lieutenant in the IDF.
Goldstein was raised in a Jewish-conservative household in Philadelphia, attending the Jewish elementary school of Solomon Schechter and Camp Rama in the summers. He chose to go to the Quaker Friends’ Central High School in part because of the school’s focus on athletics, but also in order to broaden his horizons.
By Tamar Shmaryahu, Israel Campus Beat
Dov Lerner, former ZOA president at the University of Maryland and current Lone Soldier in the IDF: “It is very different making the case for Israel on campuses than actually sitting on the border with a gun guarding the country," Lerner said. "Having done both, I know that they are both extremely necessary.”
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