Army Blog

Mar 2026 Weeks 28 + 29 – שבוע מלחמה + מסע קומטא Where to even begin. The end of the training, the final challenge, the last push in this crazy 7 month journey. It’s easier… Mar 2026 Weeks 28 + 29 – שבוע מלחמה + מסע קומטא Where to even begin. The end of the training, the final challenge, the last push in this crazy 7 month journey. It's easier… Feb 2026 Week 27 The calm before the storm. The last week on base before Shavua milchama: 10 days straight in the shetach which culminates with… Feb 2026 Week 26 As training draws closer to an end, the weeks feel irrelevant. Like every week is just filler until the final week: Shavua… Feb 2026 Week 24 There’s a certain delight, a special pleasure, in knowing the week ahead will be easy. This was one such week. Rumors had gone… Feb 2026 Week 25 We went right back to work after Sidrat Chinuch. On Sunday night we had a Bachmas (obstacle course). I passed all the obstacles… Jan 2026 Week 23 I wanted to quit this week. I felt I had reached a breaking point. It was definitely triggered by what we were doing during the… Jan 2026 Week 22 – קליעה מתקדם This week was surprisingly easy relative to the previous two weeks. Actually, scratch that. This was one of the easiest weeks of… Jan 2026 Week 22 – קליעה מתקדם This was one of the easiest weeks of training. It was a week of advanced shooting training; hundreds of rounds of ammo shot by… Jan 2026 Week 20 + 21 – טכניכות תרגולות + שבוע כיתה חוסן Resilience. It’s a word that was thrown around a lot these past two weeks. Physical resilience, mental resilience. Building… Jan 2026 Weeks 20 + 21 – טכניכות תרגולות + שבוע כיתה חוסן. Resilience. It's a word that was thrown around a lot these past two weeks. Physical resilience, mental resilience. Building… Dec 2025 Week 19 – Last חנוכה + הגנ”ם Chagim are hard in the army. They’re paid so little attention, and even when they are, it can never feel the same as it did on… Dec 2025 Week 19 – Last חנוכה + הגנ״ם Chagim are hard in the army. They're paid so little attention, and even when they are, it can never feel the same as it did on… Dec 2025 Week 18 – שבוע מאמן 3 During all the “practice weeks” we build on the material we learned in the last one, specifically how to open rooms. The first… Dec 2025 Week 18 – שבוע מאמן 3 During all the practice weeks we build on the material we learned in the last one, specifically how to open rooms. The first one… Dec 2025 Week 17 Some weeks are so defined by one or two activities that they become the focal point, obscuring and overshadowing everything else.… Nov 2025 Week 16 – הגנ”ם 2 Another week of הגנ”ם: sleepless nights, pointless labor, and cleaning dishes. Unsurprisingly it’s these weeks when I’m reminded… Nov 2025 Week 16 – הגנ״ם 2 Another week of הגנ״ם: sleepless nights, pointless labor, and cleaning dishes. Unsurprisingly it's these weeks when I'm reminded… Nov 2025 Week 15 – JUMPING On Sunday and Monday we made up the material we missed because of the Yom siddurim while everyone else continued with the course… Nov 2025 Week 14 We woke up Sunday and after running a 4k at 5AM, journeyed back to Tel Nof jump school. A run through of everything we learned… Nov 2025 Week 13 The beginning of the week wasn’t too hard. We’re in Shavua Meamen 2 – we have a similar schedule as the first week of Meamen: one… Nov 2025 Week 12 The week started on a real light foot: a Yom siddurim. As lone soldiers, were entitled to one day a month where we leave base,… Oct 2025 Week 11 This past shabbat was the first time my class was כיתה סוגרת, the class that closes. There’s a rotation of every class in the… Oct 2025 Week 10 I had loads of conversations about the army before the army. I spoke to everyone I could. People my age who had done it, people… Oct 2025 Week 9 שבוע הגנ”ם – הגנת מחנה “Defending the camp”. We’d all been anticipating this week for some time. We’d heard caution about how… Oct 2025 Week 8 The longer I’m away from base, the harder it is to come back. I get used to life on the outside – how nice and calm it is.… Sep 2025 Week 6 Tiring. Exhausting. Draining. However you want to call it. Whichever adjective gives you a sense of the combination of a lot of… Sep 2025 Week 7 – רגילה We had a nice, long break from the army this past week. I spent shabbat in the apartment in Jerusalem for the first time. I… Sep 2025 Week 7 – רגילה We had a nice, long break from the army this past week. I spent shabbat in the apartment in Jerusalem for the first time. Full… Sep 2025 Week 5 What a weird feeling going from Shabbat right into army life. There’s a phrase on the base (and I’m sure army-wide) “בכל שבת יש… Sep 2025 Week 4 “תפתחו שעון” The Mefaked kita turns the lights on and shouts that out to us every morning. “Open your watches”. We quickly wake… Sep 2025 Week 3 Time in the army is a paradox – youre constantly busy and yet you’ve done nothing at all. Looking back, I know we did a lot, but… Aug 2025 Draft Day After a year of waiting, lots of trouble with meitav, almost not being allowed to do the gibbush and pulling every string I have… Aug 2025 Week 1 We had our phone a bit throughout the day during the first week since we’d need it to fill out forms and questionnaires at… Aug 2025 Week 2 Throughout last week, the question on everyone’s mind was, are you going to the Gibbush? During the second week (the first full…