[HIGHLIGHTS] Paulina Tuchschneider, the novelist who deserted from the Israeli army: “They called me hysterical for exposing the anxiety of being a soldier”

Paulina Tuchschneider was trained in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) She never completed her service. “I'm like an alien.

My place did not belong to the army. That's why I have written about a heroine immersed in another battle, the feminine one, in which you see yourself surrounded by bodies and feeling that you are not like the others," she explains in a video call from her apartment in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, where he lives with his partner and his cats.