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The officer who lost his parents and sister developed a widget - and became an outstanding chief of staff | Israel Today

2022-04-13T20:23:07.898Z


Ido Bitton did not let the harsh reality subdue him • He enlisted, became an officer - and received the prestigious award • for the development designed to help lone soldiers: "Opportunity to give back"


A story like that of Captain Ido Bitton (27), who recently won the Outstanding Chief of Staff award, is not heard every day

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Bitton, a permanent member of the Hoshen Center of the Communications and Information Technology Corps, lost his father a week before his bar mitzvah.

Five years later he lost his older sister to leukemia, and after another five years his mother to cancer.

Thus, at the age of 22 he became the guardian of his little sister, now 21 years old, and was forced to cover the financial debts of the family.

"In a situation like this, you do not define yourself as a guardian, but live with your sister. Family members and friends also helped us," he says.

Be that as it may, Ido did not shut himself up because of the disasters he experienced but became an admirable figure, and he instructs every year in an IDF orphanage camp.

Ido receives the signal from the Chief of Staff, Photo: IDF Spokesman

"For me the guidance is to give back to the organization. I also understand the orphans better, because I am not only a guide but I have gone through this path myself," he noted.

In addition, Ido is leading the development of a widget that makes individual rights accessible to individual soldiers, and has received the Outstanding Chief of Staff award for his work.

He said, "There are a lot of funds and a lot of rights and organizations that can help a soldier, but there is no one to coordinate it. I and three other orphans decided to set up a site with an algorithm that not only centralizes everything civil society and state give orphans in the military, but actually sews a suit for every soldier. A whole world where I take my experience in the IDF as an IT person and contribute it to something civilian.

There is no other factor that does that. "

When will the algorithm be ready?

"We are all working on the algorithm in our free time volunteering. I have also recruited a lot of friends and soldiers from my wing. I hope that after Independence Day the algorithm will already be able to assist soldiers on a regular basis."

Shlomi Nachomson, director general of the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization, adds that "Ido has been with us for many years and serves as an example and role model for IDF orphans, whom he instructs in 'Otzma' camps.

For us it is the face of the values ​​of perseverance, determination, and dedication of life to doing good.

It is an honor for me to accompany a young leader at the beginning of his career, and I can not think of a more worthy figure to win the Outstanding Chief of Staff award.

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Source: israelhayom

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