Uri's father, a lone San Diego soldier serving as a Golan warrior, planned to surprise his son by swearing in. He crossed the world, but instead of the Wall came to visit Uri in the hospital

• Override attack on the station complex in Jerusalem // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

Jewish Agency Chairman Yitzhak Herzog spoke Thursday with Uri's mother, a lone soldier from San Diego, who was moderately wounded tonight in the severe over-terror attack near the Jerusalem station. Herzog heard from her mother about her deep concern for her son, while in San Diego and in Israel. She said that the Jewish Agency would continue to strengthen her son and all the lone soldiers who immigrated to Israel alone to build their home and their future here.

Uri, the lone soldier from San Diego, arrived in Israel as part of a scouting nucleus of the Scout movement and joined the IDF last November. His father, who arrived from San Diego on Wednesday night to surprise him at the inauguration ceremony at the Wall, made his way to the hospital instead and is now at a bedside they built.

Photo: MDA spokeswomen

Representatives of the Jewish Agency visited the hospital this morning and provided initial support to father and son to help them with immediate needs. The chairman of the Jewish Agency also spoke to the father and told his son and all the injured wounded a complete cure and a fast recovery. Herzog, who is on a scheduled work tour of the West Coast, will visit San Diego tomorrow and meet with the soldier's mother of Golani at the Joish Academic School where she teaches Hebrew and Judaism and also studied her son before immigrating to Israel.

Each year, the Jewish Agency accompanies some 1,000 immigrants and immigrants from its absorption programs in preparation for their recruitment to the IDF. More than 350 young people are recruited each year as part of a scouting core of the Boy Scout movement, accompanying the few immigrant soldiers upon arrival in Israel and preparing them for enlistment in the military, during military service and in the first steps after liberation.