Israeli-Canadian reservists say they’re volunteering because they believe it’s the right thing to do, even though they’re not looking forward to combat
Born and raised in Ottawa, the 21-year-old moved to Israel in 2020 to join the Israel Defense Forces. Released from service last year, Silver said she recently responded to a call asking members of her former platoon to voluntarily return to duty after Hamas attacked Israel on Saturday.
“If you don’t believe that this will succeed, then you don’t believe that you see a tomorrow for future generations of Israel, of Jews, of your brothers and sisters. There is no choice,” she said in an interview Wednesday. Silver said she moved to Israel as a “lone soldier” – someone from another country who doesn’t have family in Israel – after seeing antisemitic incidents in her high school. Since moving to the Jewish state, she said she has felt a sense of belonging and that she doesn’t have to be afraid because she is Jewish.
“I’m happy for my children that we’re not there, but I’m so torn because all my family, my friends, people I grew up with, they’re all there,” she said Thursday. “So you feel like you can’t do anything, and it’s driving you crazy.” “No one’s looking forward. No one wants to really be here,” he said. “But we have people killing us, we have people torturing us, we have people kidnapping us and doing things that even ISIS didn’t do to us. So we don’t want to be here, but we have to be here.”
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