Serving in the army

Eli (my commander) & Myself

The wailing wall in the afternoon

The army is Israel is a unique phenomenon. Even thought one will say there has been a lot of changes during the last decades and people don't volunteer to serve , specially in the reserve , (we call it Miluim in Hebrew), i don't see it in our team.
At the age of 44 I am entitle to quit from the army but when I see the people around me still serve I just don't feel like leaving .usually you don't find yourself hanging around in a group w/people at the age of your daughter,and people who are older than you , but I must say it is FUN.
Last summer we had a war in Israel, we spent the summer in an around Lebanon, and had flashbacks from 1982 when we as young soldiers spent our summer in Lebanon and our country got stocked there for another 18 years till 2000.
I don't serve in a fighting unit now but we do help and support the units by helping them in cretin situations. We did a great job during the last war and spent around 30 days serving .

On Monday and Tuesday we went for two days, these two days were very important by means of learning cretin stuff regarding our job in the army, but mainly was aimed on Integrating the team.
Since part of the team is young guys who joined us few months ago and part of the team is a group of people who go together for many years, you need to spent some time together in order to get to know each other better.
We went to Jerusalem, wonderful city, full of history and emotions for every Jew, Christian and Muslim but for us as Jews it is our holy city and specially the Wailing Wall. So it was a mixture of studies:professional ,historical and fun.

The Wall

At night we went out for a short drink that happened to end as a very interesting and enjoyable time .We were sitting in a bar , and after half an hour we got drinks for everybody from a guy who were sitting on the bar.
This religious guy treated us in a very generous way, from his bottom of his hurt , just because we are soldiers, we had the first round and than the second, and after the third which also included food we almost collapsed. the guy's name is Josh Fisher. Thank you Josh for your generous gift!!!

Josh with the Team

The team

We spent sometime in and under old Jerusalem, but the highlight was the time in the tunnels underneath the Muslim quarter where you can see the part of the western wall which is buried under and touch history of 2000 years ago, the foundations of the Jews heritage

Under the old city of Jerusalem

(the wall tunnels)