How Hebrew Academy of Five Towns and Rockaway students helped get boots to the Israel Defense Forces
It began with a phone call.
A few days after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, when many of the Israel Defense Forces reservists returned to active duty, IDF officers, including General Daniel Jacobs, saw that the returnees’ boots were very worn.
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He was, in effect, dead.
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