Lone soldier

For One Day, a Family: How Israel Helps Lone Soldiers Put Their Lives in Order

More than 9,000 lone soldiers came to EXPO Tel Aviv last week to take care of the errands that pile up when there is no family nearby to help.

IDF lone soldiers walking into the Yom Siddurim event
Serving religious lone ‘b’not sherut’ and female lone soldiers alongside their male counterparts, the Michael Levin Base provides a vital support system.

Lone soldiers, b'not sherut find a true home at the Michael Levin Base

IDF officers

Some came to Israel to serve the Jewish state. Haredim are rewarded for refusing to help - opinion

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett on October 13, 2026.

Naftali Bennett unveils B’Yachad party plan to cut bureaucracy, boost support for olim


Israel-Hamas war: How are thousands of olim helping out?

This includes packing supplies, making challot for Shabbat, helping tutor children whose parents are in the IDF reserves, working on a social media campaign to raise awareness, and more.

 CALANIT EPSTEIN (L), seen with another new olah, arrives in Israel last month.

Hundreds of new immigrants, ultra-Orthodox join IDF since start of Israel-Hamas War

Lone soldiers are also disproportionately represented in new draft data.

 An Israeli soldier wears a Jewish prayer shawl and tefillin as he prays, in Ashkelon, southern Israel October 10, 2023.

IDF lone soldiers, B'not Sherut celebrate Thanksgiving in Jerusalem

For lone soldiers and lone B’not/B’nei Sherut, Thanksgiving holds special significance. While they may find themselves far from their homes and families, they are not alone.

 CARVING THE turkey: StandWithUs executive director (C) Michael Dickson with Michael Levin Base co-director Lizzie Noach, and volunteers.

A call to be brave: The story of a mother of a lone soldier- opinion

A mother of a lone soldier describes what it's like having her daughter serving overseas in the IDF during Israel's war against Hamas.

  A group shot of lone soldiers posing with their mothers at the Nefesh B'Nefesh campus in Jerusalem.

President Herzog meets Australia delegation, family of injured Australian lone soldier

The president was very interested in the soldier’s condition and spent several minutes talking to the father at the end of the meeting with the delegation.

 President Isaac Herzog speaks on Israel's judicial reform on February 12, 2023

Mother of slain teen tells immigrant moms sending kids to war admirable

"Your sons and daughters are our heroes, going out there and doing everything in their power to protect the Jewish people, but this ability to serve our nation in such a way comes from you.”

 Mothers of soldiers, both active and fallen

Operation Wedding: Lone soldier celebrates wedding with the help of Mevo Dotan residents

Empathetic residents decided to organize a wedding for the young couple anyway.

A bride and groom kiss under the chuppah at their wedding

10,000 attend funeral of Brazilian olah after online call to action

10,000 people attended the funeral of Brazilian-Israeli lone soldier Bruna Valeanu, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists at a music festival.

The funeral of Bruna Valeanu, who was killed as she attended a festival that was attacked by Hamas gunmen from Gaza that left at least 260 people dead, at her funeral in Petah Tikva, Israel, October 10, 2023.

Mourning the loss of a murdered lone soldier - opinion

The Kiryat Shaul Cemetery is the final resting place of 80,000 men and women, among them well-known actors and poets, with the east reserved for soldiers who died on duty. Now Maxim is among them.

 MOURNING SGT. MAXIM MOLCHANOV, killed in the Aug. 31 truck-ramming attack at Maccabim checkpoint, in Kiryat Shaul Cemetery, Sept. 5.

First state-of-the-art building for lone soldiers breaks ground in Israel

The home will provide housing for 222 courageous lone soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) beginning in December 2024.

 An illustration of what the completed lone soldier building will look like..