Over 2,000 Israel Defense Forces soldiers stopped in Tel Aviv on Thursday to run some errands: paying bills, renewing driver’s licenses, ordering passports, getting their pants hemmed.
Ordinarily such quotidian activities wouldn’t warrant a news article, but what set these apart was that the troops — foreign-born soldiers who serve in the IDF without family in Israel — were able to do all of these things in one place, rather than having to run between government offices or wait on the phone for hours.
Full Story (Times of Israel)
