Niv and Nirel met in the army. She was a young training officer and he a decorated combat veteran. Badly wounded in Hebron in 2015, Nirel’s was a story of survival. He’d nearly died having been wounded in the neck. A veteran of Tsuk Eitan / Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Nirel had seen too many of his fellow soldiers, his friends, fall in combat – or suffer the terrible after-effects of war. Now he had a new fight on his hands – to secure the support and services he would need as he undertook the fight to recover. That would open his eyes to a whole new battlefield – one on which far too many wounded warriors find themselves as they face a need for a retinue of services and assistance to which they are entitled, but which require the engagement of Israel’s government bureaucracy.
As always beautifully written. Glad to se you are writing. May you be in the comfort of your family this Passover.