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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/10/23/the-incredible-story-of-the-idfs-iraqi-arabic-instructor/
The IDF's Iraqi Arabic Instructor
(Israel Hayom) Neta Bar - Command Sgt. Maj. V. serves as an Arabic instructor in the IDF's Intelligence Corps. She is responsible for teaching Arab culture and mentality as well as the Arabic language to intelligence personnel. Her family was one of the last Jewish families in Iraq. Her father was accused of being a spy for Israel by Saddam Hussein's regime. "From age four I knew what I could say to those around me and what I couldn't. I knew we were Jewish, but I didn't really understand what that meant at that age. I only knew I wasn't a regular kid." "We were the last Jews to make aliyah from Iraq." "It makes me happy that I can give the soldiers knowledge of the [Arabic] language as a key to their service," she says. "The soldiers listen to me, they're spellbound by my personal story."