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Why we opened this campaign
Meet Arthur. He is 30 years old, and for the past 12 and a half years he has been living in Israel — the country he chose himself when he was just 17. He arrived from Moscow through the SELA program, alone, without family, without a safety net, and from the very first day decided that he would not simply live here — he would give back.
Arthur is a former “lone soldier.” He knows what it feels like to arrive in a new country without familiar walls around you, without a mother who calls in the evening, without a father saying “you’ll manage.” Because he went through it himself.
That is exactly why six years ago he became a volunteer with the organization Ach Gadol. Over the years he has mentored more than ten lone soldiers. He became a friend to them. A brother. The person who listens when no one else does.
The Ministry of Absorption awarded him a certificate of distinction as one of the best volunteers in the country. Because Arthur is one of those people who simply cannot walk past someone in need.
Today Arthur is a final-year student at the Technion’s Practical Engineering School, studying to become an architect and interior designer. Only a few months remain until graduation.
At the same time he is an active IDF reservist — an infantry soldier and field medic in a counter-terrorism assault battalion in Judea and Samaria. Since the war began he has served more than 420 days in reserve duty. Four hundred and twenty days. While studying. While trying to keep a normal life that does not pause for war.
During the war Arthur lost friends. The pain remains and does not go away. Together with his comrades he created a song and a music video dedicated to the soldiers who were killed in Gaza. Because he does not know how to stay silent, and he believes remembering them is his duty. That project also required money he did not really have.
And then everything began to collapse.
In September his father in Moscow became seriously ill — hospitalization, fear, trying to help his mother from afar. At the same time Arthur had exams. And as if that was not enough, Arthur himself fell ill and received only half his salary.
A loan. A deep negative balance in the bank account. Debts pressing so hard that it becomes almost impossible to focus on studying — the very studies that he is only months away from finishing.
Last year, despite endless reserve duty and the pressure of his studies, Arthur achieved excellent grades. He knows how to work. He knows how to study. He knows how to carry more on his shoulders than most of us could imagine.
But right now he is on the edge, and for the first time in 12 years in Israel he is asking for help.
In just a few months Arthur will graduate and enter the job market. But he has to make it through until that moment. Literally.
Because the bank loan does not wait. The rent does not wait. And a mind overwhelmed with debt cannot pass final exams.
15,000 shekels.
That is all Arthur needs to pay off the most pressing debts, close the loan, and calmly reach the finish line.
We are not talking about an astronomical sum. We are talking about helping a person who has spent 12 years giving everything he has to this country make the final push toward independence.
The money is needed now. Final semester exams are already approaching, and every day spent deeper in debt is a day stolen from his future.
For six years he was a big brother to others. For 420 days he protected us on the front lines. Now it is our turn.
Let’s not pass by.
After this, he will manage on his own. He always has.
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