1
Soldiers whose parents live abroad
- New immigrants and volunteers
- Young people who immigrated to Israel on their own in order to enlist, while their parents remained abroad.
- Parents who emigrated
- Soldiers whose parents left Israel and moved abroad during their service or before it.
- Parents on an official posting
- Soldiers whose parents are posted abroad on official duty for a continuous period of six months or more.
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Soldiers with no family support in Israel (“lone soldier due to exceptional circumstances”)
- Estranged from their parents
- Soldiers who have no contact at all with their parents, for a range of reasons (such as a deep family rift or a difficult social background).
- No functioning family support
- Soldiers who are in some contact with their parents, but where for established reasons (financial, medical or psychological) the parents cannot provide them with a home and support, and the soldier cannot live with them. This category includes, among others, young people from the ultra-Orthodox community who have been cut off from their families after leaving religious life.
- Orphans
- Soldiers who have lost both of their parents.
- Foster-care graduates
- Soldiers who lived with a foster family or in welfare frameworks until the age of 18 and are not supported by their biological parents.
