Civilian Effort to Equip Israeli Soldiers for War With Hezbollah Ratchets Up Alongside Hostilities
22nd September 2024
As tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have shot up to new highs, Israeli soldiers anticipating being deployed to the north are increasingly turning for help to the civilian donation efforts that have kept them stocked in Gaza.
Adi Vaxman, who heads the U.S.-based donation effort called Operation Israel, fields requests from individual soldiers and says demand has spiked in tandem with security developments involving Hezbollah.
“With the situation up north, the demand has tripled in the last few days,” Vaxman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency last week. She said the total requests by soldiers in September are on pace to reach double the roughly 15,000 requests from August.
Nothing illustrates the essential inferiority of dependence on the government than efforts such as these. There used to be a site, the link for which I long ago lost, where you could go online and pay for a pizza to be delivered to Israeli soldiers.