A Line in the Sand: An American's Story of Service and Sacrifice in the Israeli Special Forces

A Line in The Sand is an honest balanced and at times humorous glimpse into the thoughts feelings and experiences of an IDF combat soldier. It is not a chronicle of war but rather a chronicle of love. Coreys book describes the sacrifices that must be made in the subjugation of ones own desires in deference to something greater. It is one thing to draw a line in the sand; it is quite another to summon the commitment and willpower to stand guard over that line.At twenty-two years old Corey Feldman left his sheltered idyllic American life to move to Israel and voluntarily draft into the Israel Defense Forces as a lone soldier. Over the next eighteen months he endured grueling training shattering exhaustion and excruciating physical and emotional pain preparing for life as a special operations combat soldier.Corey struggled to overcome the linguistic and cultural barriers required to integrate into the military and Israeli society. Simultaneously he struggled to adjust to a lifestyle in which the unbridled freedom of his life as a university student was replaced by the regimented unforgiving life of a soldier. Throughout his service in the IDF Corey searches for the perseverance resilience and selflessness to become something more.