They really gotta get a native Hebrew speaker for this job

August 9, 2006 - 11:01 PM by Sarah

Yet another Israelity moment from The Muqata, about a friend doing reserve duty:

A good friend of mine is in Miluim. He’s a paratrooper, a couple years older then me, his late 30s. He’s in a pretty elite unit that specializes in house to house combat with years of experience fighting Palestinian terrorists. In his civilian life he’s a Rav in a Talmud Torah in one of the yishuvim near ours. His youngest kids (3 year old twin girls) and my youngest (3 year old boy) are best friends and were in a playgroup together this past year. He’s up in combat now.

. . . . My wife spoke to my friend’s wife this morning. She had gotten a call from the army, and she started panicking. The fellow she was talking to was obviously a very recent immigrant from Russia. His mastery of Hebrew was limited, but after a while he finely was able to be understood. Everything is fine. Since soldiers aren’t allowed to bring their cell phones and make calls from Lebanon the IDF has a bank of people getting reports from the field and calling families to tell them everyone is safe and doing well.

Wonder if Hizbullah does the same thing.

The writer also relates an anecdote about helping his friend’s wife by trying to get her car passed for yearly registration . . . it’s a bit long, but oh boy, can anyone with a car relate. Check it out at the original post.

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