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In Israel, the name “lone soldier” is given to recruits who have made aliyah alone, leaving other family members behind, and to those native-born Israelis who are either orphans or are no longer connected to their parents. Many of these lone soldiers who have recently made aliyah come from Russia and the Central Asian stans. Of the 177,000 soldiers in the regular army , 7,000 are “lone soldiers,” in Hebrew chayalim bodedim, who lack the family support of the other soldiers, and when on leave, go home not to waiting relatives but to an empty apartment. The IDF provides special financial help, arranges social gatherings for the lone soldiers, gives them one month leave each year to visit family abroad, one day of leave each month to run errands, coupons to buy food for Hanukkah and Rosh Hoshanah, and other benefits which can be found described here.
But it’s a difficult life.
More about one of them, Simon Shlomov, who died this month defending his new country, Israel, from those who would destroy it, can be found here: “New Immigrant Soldier Falls in Gaza Battle,” by Troy O. Fritzhand, Algemeiner, February 19, 2024:
The latest soldier to fall in the war in Gaza was a new immigrant from Kazakhstan, it was reported on Monday [February 19]. Known as a lone soldier, Master Sergeant Simon Shlomov, 20, immigrated while still in high school as part of a program that allows teenagers to move and start a life in Israel.
The lone soldier label applies to recruits who serve with no parental support in Israel. This includes Israeli natives who are orphans or have no ties to their parents, constituting some 48 percent of all lone soldiers. The rest include recruits who made aliyah while their parents live abroad.
The head of the program that he participated in, Yoram Panias, told Israeli media “It is simply incomprehensible that Shlomov was killed in Gaza. We are all shocked and pained here, and above all we cannot digest the heavy disaster that has befallen us. Simon came to Israel as a lone soldier, he arrived to us to study in the village and we immediately fell in love with him. He smiled, always helped everyone, and above all he wanted to succeed. His father came to Israel and all the money he saved from hard work at our farm in the village and from working on vacations in hotels in Eilat, he would send to his mother in Kazakhstan.”…
A “lone soldier” in the IDF, Simon Shlomov had much too short a life, but in every respect a noble one.
Just remember the American Military man who was fired by Skirt Chaser Bill((Clinton)for refusing to wear the UN Blue Yes Clinton opposed Freedom of Choice not to betray America like he(Clinton)did during Vietnam
What a handsome and bright looking young man! What a shame it is that people keep pushing the LIES about how Israel conducts this WAR! They would be justified to have just started pumping gas into the tunnels and blowing them up no matter WHERE they went! But no, they have been very careful to avoid civilian casualties and young men like this “Lone Soldier” are paying the price! Rest in Peace young man!
Defended by an army of such noble character, Israel will never be defeated.
May his memory be a blessing 🕯️
May his blood be avenged without mercy.
Definitely second the first part of your comment, but the second part would bring Israel down to the same level as her persecutors and detractors. I believe that there are spiritual forces at work behind this physical war, and that they will be utterly humiliated by Israel’s God, and by an Israel that rises stronger and more unified from this struggle.
You do not get it do you? Ok try this, this kind of mentality breaks into your home and murders and rapes and tortures and cooks infants alive in microwave ovens and gas ovens and more ghastly incomprehensible demonic acts of humans against humans. You do not go up and forgive and hug them you slaughter them as they have no right to be a human being. You slaughter the enemy with extreme prejudice and no mercy for their acts must be dealt with this way. This is the commands of YHVH. And this is why none of this demonic s**t happened while President Trump was in office.. The weakness of the puppet dementia crook Joe Briben, the stooge puppet for the coup d’etat we are living under in the USA, that is ANTISEMETIC anti USA, that allowed terror groups to seize &85 billion dollars of high tech military equipment they are reverse engineering is taking us to Armageddon and WW3. Wake up Americans. Wake up Hebrews!
Need clarification on this statement, “His father came to Israel and all the money he saved from hard work at our farm in the village and from working on vacations in hotels in Eilat, he would send to his mother in Kazakhstan.”… If his father came with him, then how is he a lone soldier? It sounds like you meant to say that Simon sent all his hard earned money to his mother, but I can’t figure out what you meant to say about his father. A correction would be helpful.
A young soldier dies in war. All their hopes and future and future generations are not going to happen. Like William Muny in “Unforgiven” “You kill a man, you take away all he’s got and all he’s gonna have”