{"id":497629,"date":"2013-09-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/sylven-finishes-boot-camp-its-an-honor-to-serve-in-the-idf\/"},"modified":"2013-09-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T09:00:00","slug":"sylven-finishes-boot-camp-its-an-honor-to-serve-in-the-idf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/sylven-finishes-boot-camp-its-an-honor-to-serve-in-the-idf\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylven Finishes Boot Camp: \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to serve in the IDF.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"> \tBy Amy Samin<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"> \tSylven Landesberg completed his basic training in the IDF yesterday (Wednesday) with a moving induction ceremony held at the Museum of Underground Prisoners in Acre. Club chairman Shimon Mizrahi, head coach David Blatt and Sylven\u2019s teammates from Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv surprised him by attending the ceremony. Their presence generated great excitement amongst the soldiers, many of whom requested a photo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"> \tAt the end of the ceremony, Landesberg said, \u201cIt was an incredible experience, one that definitely shapes your character. I\u2019m glad I did it. I was very excited to see all of the guys, and the staff. It\u2019s an honor to be a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: center;\"> \t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-prn1\/1236545_10151570154606831_1724583340_n.jpg\" style=\"width: 425px; height: 356px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylven Landesberg, player for Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv, completed his basic training in the IDF yesterday, and was surprised by his teammates, who attended the ceremony. \u201cIt was an incredible experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":497628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-497629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497629"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=497629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}