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Sep 13, 2023, 3:25 PM

A Rosh Hashanah kiddush amidst the skies of duty

A young Jonathan Davis in 1972.

We're refueling our Sikorsky helicopter when a military rabbi suddenly rushes out to us bringing a glass of wine

May 2, 2022, 1:06 PM

Israel’s Memorial Day: Graduates and students of Reichman University who fell in the line of duty

This is a very challenging period of the year in the calendar of the State of Israel. On Passover we remember that we were slaves in the land of Egypt, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the destruction of...

Feb 4, 2022, 3:14 PM

Remembering the great aliyah of Soviet Jewry

(courtesy)

What a privilege to be at a Passover seder singing songs of freedom with a refusenik and Jewish activist who had been released from jail just 24 hours earlier

May 8, 2019, 5:00 PM

The lone soldier and the taxi driver on Independence Day

It was 1972 and the elite paratrooper reconnaissance unit, Sayeret Tzanchanim, was based in Tel Nof Air Force base. The entire unit had been given the day off for Yom Ha'atzmaut (Independence Day). There was no main road from Tel...

May 1, 2019, 12:07 AM

Lying in ambush inside Lebanon on Yom Hashoah

Jonathan Davis in Lebanon in 1979

That time our Druze commander had to remind us IDF soldiers that six million Jews were murdered

Sep 5, 2018, 8:09 PM

Rosh Hashanah over Beirut

A young Jonathan Davis in 1972.

In 1972, I was a lone soldier with no family in the country, spending the Jewish New Year patrolling the Lebanese coast

Jun 6, 2018, 7:02 PM

Remembering Lebanon — Purity of Arms

The soldier shall make use of his weaponry and power only for the fulfillment of the mission and solely to the extent required; he will maintain his humanity even in combat. The soldier shall not employ his weaponry and...

Apr 17, 2018, 12:18 AM

The Red Mailbox

(Jonathan Davis)

I was a lone soldier with the worst neighbors ever: This is how they treated me during the Yom Kippur War

Jan 16, 2017, 1:38 PM

Full Circle: Lone Soldier/Student Then and Now

We built the Raphael Recanati International School, Israel’s Academic Absorption Center to be a haven of acculturation for newcomers to Israel – so that they don’t have to go through what we did. Sitting in my office in the center...

May 11, 2016, 2:35 PM

Never Forgotten

On Holocaust Day we remember the greatest tragedy in Jewish History and the frustration of not having had our own country with an Airforce, Navy and Infantry to protect our people. Today, on our Memorial Day for the soldiers, I remember...

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About Me

Jonathan Davis is head of the international school at Reichman University (formerly the IDC) and vice president of external relations there. He is also a member of the advisory board of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism. Mr. Davis also serves as a Lieutenant Colonel (Res) in the IDF Spokesman’s office.

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