A match made in wartime

(JNS) - RISHON LEZION, Israel - When the young American social media consultant volunteering in Israel saw a handsome IDF soldier recuperating in the hospital rehabilitation ward, she offered him a Fruit Roll-Up.

Miami-born Danielle Yablonka, 23, was tired of standing and listening to the older women on her solidarity mission talking, and, eyeing a soldier sitting nearby, was sure he would welcome the snack.

"Israelis are supposed to like everything American," she told JNS.

But Daniel Kopylov, 21, politely declined.

Undeterred, she then asked him if she could sit down. "Of course," the soldier...