Fic­tion

Masa: Sto­ries of a Lone Soldier

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May 13, 2013
One morn­ing, an ordi­nary Amer­i­can teenag­er woke up, report­ed to induc­tion offices and enlist­ed in the Israel Defense Forces. A month lat­er, he stood in the mid­dle of the Negev Desert in an olive green uni­form with a vest upon his shoul­ders and a rifle strapped to his chest. He now had a stake in the most ancient war ever waged. But for all its sig­nif­i­cance, he found him­self as no more than a foot sol­dier caught between pol­i­tics and the real­i­ties of the front line. With­out fam­i­ly, with­out a child­hood home, he was called Lone Sol­dier”. These are his stories. 

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