Israeli reservists in US leave behind proud, worried families
"Are you going to be at risk?," one Israeli reservist recounts his son asking. As a deadly Hamas attack on Israel unfolded last Saturday, Nadav Padan, a reserve general in the Israeli Military who lives in New York, received a flood of messages from soldiers he knew in Israel, he said. Within hours, Padan decided to join the fight. But before he could leave the next day, his teenage son had a slew of questions, Nadav said. "What's going on in Israel and what are you going to do there? Is it really important for you to fly there?" Padan, now in Israel, recounted his son saying. "Are you going to be at risk?" The inquiries touched on what Padan called his top worry: "Who will give a shoulder to my wife and son when I'm not there?" After war broke out last week, Israel called up 360,000 army reservists, which amounts to roughly 4% of the nation's population. Some of those reservists are Israelis who live in the U.S., and they answere...