MY ISRAELI JOURNEY

A man cannot forget his past. As the son of new immigrants from Iran, all I wanted was to be a Sabar. I could not change my place of origin, but I could shape my life in adulthood. The dream of being Israeli was our dream, of the children of the Mofazz-Karr family, and what is more Israeli than being the Chief of Staff of the IDF? Shahram Mofaz-Karr did not dream of becoming Chief of Staff. He was born in Tehran, experienced with his family the difficulties of assimilation in Israel, in the city of Eilat, and was sent away from home and from everything he knew to the agricultural school in Nahalel, in order to receive the best education. Shaul Mofaz did not dream of being Chief of Staff even when he started his military service as a filer in the Third Division and continued from there to the paratroopers, certainly not after he was rejected several times until he arrived at the 1st Bhd - the place he returned to after years as the base commander. And yet he was the Chief of Staff. Almo