Officially a soldier!

Monday was our last day of tironout - basic training. To start the day they semi-unexpectedly woke us up at 4AM and gave us 7 minutes to get dressed and downstairs. We then went on the masa - hike - to end basic training. It was only 6km, and it wasn't difficult except

for the fact that I did almost half the hike with a broken shoelace.

Me with my tag after the masa: now I am part of the education corps, and have slightly moved up from a nobody.

After the morning, they drove us to Akko - where we were to have our searing in ceremony. Our ceremony was at the Akko prison which was used by the British prior to

the establishment of the State of Israel to hold members of the Irgun, Lehi and Etzel - groups that supported the establisment of a Jewish State, protected the Jews

from the Arabs, and opposed the presence of the British in the land. Later in the afternoon we had the ceremony where we officially became soliders in the IDF. In a ceremonial fashion we were given our guns and swore on a bible to protect the State of Israel.

I`m third row on the left

Recieving my gun fom the Samelet