We recruited more than 600 brave and heroic soldiers for a complicated task: to uncover the most secret place – their thoughts. Fortunately, they met the goal and conquered the goal in a big way.
We started with the most important thing: food! We quickly discovered that with all due respect to the many donations in the form of steaks, which arrived in the field and significantly diluted the number of cows in Israel, most soldiers – about two-thirds – believe in the phrase "the army marches on its stomach," but it is better to have it full of mother's food. Well, well, also of a father who knows how to make more than an omelet.
Ultra-Orthodox soldiers sing the national anthem at the swearing-in ceremony // Photo: IDF Spokesperson
For dessert everyone went for the national Crembo, with a divisional amount of vanilla lovers, as opposed to an elite unit of mocha lovers. And make no mistake: it's not just 22- to 18-year-olds who still remember grace for those cheerful high school days. They may be the majority, but among the survey participants were reservists and permanent personnel aged 25-23, and even 35-plus.
In any case, they all have to be careful with the bite so as not to soil the mustache, which on the question of trends he led by a slight advantage. A little less than half of our heroes went for the wedding trend, mainly because a canopy in a bunker is cheaper than in a banquet hall. Besides, it is clear to the newlyweds that before the chuppah the mustache will have to be shaved - even that of the combat bride.
Vanilla Crembo or Mocha Crembo?, Photo: Moshe Shai
The mustache trend or the wedding trend?, photo: at the bottom of the page
Fighting in summer or fighting in winter?, Photo: None
Vacation in Israel or vacation abroad?, Photo: Getty Images
Will we win Eurovision in Sweden?, Photo: Daniel Kaminsky; Guy Seltzer
Food of the house or steaks and donations to the front? , Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Will we win medals at the Olympics?, Photo: AP
Dreams in (e)summer
And so they went to the front with peace of mind (most of them from the ground forces, but we also had representatives from the sea and the air), with a clear majority preferring to fight in the summer, compared to about a third who tend to mud baths, because what do they care - after all, it's a mother stuck after that with all the laundry.
They are already thinking about the day after, when a little more than half of them will fly abroad for a vacation - in any destination other than Gaza, despite the beautiful beach. The rest chose our country, and are counting on placing soldiers in a guest house.
Some of them will also fly to Paris in the summer, because the vast majority are sure that we will return with a series of medals - but in fact, our fighters deserve the real medals, of courage and heroism, and they are worth much more than the Olympic gold.
Among our illustrious fighters there are also those who would prefer to fly to the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden in the spring, and among them - a fairly small majority who are sure that our representative and the judges will not fake on the way to winning a fifth title. Hallelujah to Dawes Foa.
And finally, the most important question: Will we win together? Those who believe in this can make even Kim Jong-un dream of such a 100% voter turnout!
Photos: AP, Peripic, Guy Seltzer, Daniel Kaminsky, GettyImages, Moshe Shai, Oren Ben Hakon
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