 I still have an accent, I always have an accent, but my personal views is if there wasn't an army, there wouldn't be a state of Israel, so... To serve his new country, he joined the military in Israel, where most Jewish citizens perform mandatory military service. Then October 7th came. Hamas-led militants broke out of Gaza and through Israel's fortified security perimeter, killing nearly 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostages. Israel called up hundreds of thousands of reservists for war.