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Making aliyah, and enlisting, at age 19

E-mail|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Michael Paulson September 11, 2008 03:53 PM

In Globe West today, Erica Noonan talks with a 19-year-old Framingham man, David Tatarinov-Levin (above), about why he's moving to Israel and enlisting in the Army, and how this connects to the larger phenomenon of American Jews who choose to move to Israel at a time of ongoing instability. An excerpt:

"I feel like this is my path. It's not that I am so in love with army life or shooting guns," Tatarinov-Levin said in an interview at his family's home in Framingham's Saxonville section during a break from packing his bags, a few days before his flight last month to Tel Aviv. "But I am physically and mentally prepared to serve the country now, and I want to do it now."

(Photo by Suzanne Kreiter, Globe staff.)

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