Deena Felsenthal

The author, originally from Los Angeles, graduated YULA Girls High School in 2013 and then came to Israel to study at Migdal Oz. After a seminary year, she joined the IDF as a weapons instructor. She was recently discharged from the IDF and began studying social work at Bar Ilan University.

Israel's first lady, Sara Netanyahu, with lone soldiers from the Garin Tzabar program

Discharged lone soldiers: ‘You chose the thug life’