Reservist

With security tensions mounting on multiple fronts, the government is expected to extend the nationwide "special situation on the home front" through August 11. It is also set to renew an order allowing, if needed, the mobilization of up to 240,000 reservists. The order will remain in effect until after the Tishrei holidays.

After nearly 400 days of reserve service, an engagement at the Western Wall, and frantic, in-uniform planning, MSgt. Idan Saadon learned three months out that the venue canceled his August wedding over a "typo." "I was in Hebron with a helmet on when I had to tell my fiancée we had no venue," he says. The hall responds: "We offered alternatives and a 30% discount; he tried to exploit the situation."

After organizing dozens of funerals after October 7, reservist officer Sivan Skali Ben Zichri collapsed, suffered cardiac arrest, and survived clinical death.