IDF Warrior Stories exists to preserve and share the stories of the men and women who have served in the Israel Defense Forces — through professionally produced video biographies that honor their service, amplify their voices, and help the world understand what it actually costs, and means, to defend Israel.
We record, and share videos of Veteran stories online to help Veterans make a connection with one another and to help us all better understand their sacrifices for our freedom.
Every soldier carries a story that deserves to outlast the headlines. We're building the archive that holds it.
These aren't only stories from the past. They're being written right now, by people still living them — and they deserve to be told in their own words, not through headlines.
Coming soon — the first soldier profiles will appear here.
Service takes many forms — combat, medic, intelligence, logistics, reserve duty answered mid-life. We don't rank them. Every soldier who put on the uniform has a story worth telling, and none of those stories is worth more than another.
Coming soon — the first soldier profiles will appear here.
A "lone soldier" is the Israeli military's own term for it: someone serving without parents, without siblings, without the built-in support system every other recruit has waiting for them on leave. They left family, college, careers, friends, the language they grew up speaking, to serve a country that, for some of them, they'd never even visited a year before.
LONE SOLDIERS in their own words: what actually called them to do this, what it cost them and the families they left behind, and what they found in themselves once the roof came off of their familiar settings — the loneliness, the pride, the specific ache of a holiday spent with someone else's family because yours is an ocean away. No narrator, no argument. And the country trying, imperfectly, to become family to people who gave up their real one to get there and serve.
LONE SOLDIERS finds it in the most literal form of commitment there is — showing up, alone, for something bigger than yourself.
Coming soon — the first soldier profiles will appear here.
Coming soon — events and screenings will be listed here.