The hesder program, first initiated in the 1950s, has since grown into a movement of more than 80 yeshivas with over 10,000 students.

'I will be pushing back aggressively on things that we disagree with,' Nides stated.

'In all of human history, there has never been a love affair between a land a people as deep as enduring as the one of the Jewish people with the Land of Israel.'

Dvir Sorek, a devoted IDF soldier and exemplary yeshiva student, was found murdered near Hebron. His grandfather was a victim of terror in 2000.

Israel proves once again that it is the only real democracy in the Middle East.