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  • FERRAN BARBER

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Updated Monday, 24May2021-22: 29

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“I am 27 years old and I came to Israel when I was 19,”

Gabriel M.

tells us

.

“At first it didn't even cross my mind to join the Army.

But just shortly after traveling there, in 2012, I found myself in the middle of an operation known as

Amúd Anán

(literally, the

Pillar of the Cloud

).

Alarms were going off in

Jerusalem

and we had to go down to the shelters all the time.

They called all my reservist friends to go to fight and I began to feel a little isolated and to understand that, if I did not enlist in the

IDF

(Forces

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