“In the [orphanage] you have to fight for everything,” Leah recalls, “Nothing is yours. That’s the perception I lived with all my life, so I didn’t know it was wrong. I once bought coffee while in my [IDF] army uniform, and the seller told me it was free for me. She started learning Hebrew and soon heard about the option of serving in the IDF. It may sound simple, but for me it’s so much.”“The people here [in the army unit] know me very well.