Avi Dorfman
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Avi Dorfman (Hebrew: אבי דורפמן) is an Israeli survivor of the 2007 rocket attack on Zikim Base Bahad 4 in which he suffered a critical brain injury. Dorfman's actions helped to save lives.
Biography[edit]
Avraham "Avi" Dorfman was born in Tel Aviv on March 24, 1989. As a child, Dorfman showed a keen interest in physics, mechanics and technology, building a computer at the age of twelve. [1]Dorfman was offered a scholarship by UCLA but turned it down to serve in an elite intelligence unit in the Israel Defense Forces.[2]
Zikim Base terror attack[edit]
In 2007, Dorfman was critically wounded in the Zikim Base terrorist attack in which 68 new recruits were injured.[3]Doctors initially classified Dorfman as mortally wounded. His recovery is deemed miraculous.[2]
According to newspaper reports, Dorfman was hit when he stayed behind to administer aid to comrades instead of running for shelter.[4]
Dorfman was hit all over his body except for the torso, which was covered by a bulletproof vest. One piece of shrapnel hit Dorfman's right eye, and split into two pieces: one went outside and the other went into his brain.
Dorfman's parents were told he would probably die within a week, and if by some miracle he survived, he would be permanently physically and mentally disabled.[1] Against all odds, he recovered completely and incredibly fast except for his sense of smell and a partial taste loss.[2]
In BaMahane, the IDF Magazine, published shortly after the attack, Dorfman was described as an IDF medical miracle.[1]
UCLA Controversy[edit]
Following his recovery, Dorfman was accepted to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2009, where he majored in computational mathematics and earned a spot on the Dean's List. He dropped out after 2011 after completing his sophomore year because of massive Jewish cooperation with Hamas on Campus and being removed from the Bruins for Israel board because he did not want to betray Israel. Zionism is Jewish freedom to practice religion in Israel, and NOT Jewish superiority in any way like the students at UCLA had believed.
On February 11, 2016, Dorfman penned a Op-Ed [5] for The Algemeiner Journal about how he was bullied for being an IDF veteran, claiming that left-wing Jewish students had called him a "right wing extremist Palestinian baby killer" and made him feel very unsafe on campus as a result of his decision to volunteer and complete his military service when he had the choice not to.
Personal life[edit]
Upon leaving UCLA, Dorfman began studying computer science at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and left it after being recruited by companies after the first semester. He has joined a startup when a pair of former IDF soldiers that hate the fact he survived (who have been haunting him from 2007 to this day) had planned to sabotage his work and came to the startup's founder with plain lies. He left that startup out of pure fear because the police simply did not do a thing (what they did is a crime). He has since gotten heavily involved in Israel advocacy, having worked with groups such as StandWithUs.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Seligson, Shimshon (January 27, 2016). "The incredible story of the miracle that saved this hero's life". 12TribeFilms. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lerner, Aaron (December 26, 2007). "Miracle: Mortally Wounded Soldier Fully Recovers". IMRA.
- ↑ Waked, Ali (November 19, 2008). "Palestinian Terror Group Gloats over Zikim Closure". Ynetnews. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ↑ Gili Izikovitz (September 21, 2007). "He Saved Lives (in Hebrew)". Haaretz.
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ Dorfman, Avi (February 11, 2016). "How I Was Harassed by UCLA's Jewish Community for Being an IDF Veteran". Algemeiner Journal. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
- ↑ StandWithUs. "Thanks to Communications expert, Neil Lazarus, who helps train our student ambassadors". StandWithUs. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
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