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The war changes lives in ways we hardly hear about, but need to know about.
We close this brief week (shortened due to the holiday of Shavu’ot) with two glimpses of very different sorts of stories that describe the lives of IDF soldiers, stories that are a bit off the beaten path, but that Israelis hear and read about regularly.
Headlines like the one below about a soldier seriously wounded are tragically not unusual in the Israeli press, either in Hebrew or any other language. Though IDF statistics on wounded soldiers are not updated consistently, the IDF has said that approximately 10,000 soldiers have been wounded in the war, about 1,000 new cases are opened each…
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