It has made each loss feel that much greater. “This is the fifth soldier we’ve buried,” Valentyna Rezanova, the head of the villages, said of a recent funeral for a soldier killed far from home.

Before he left for war, Elkana wrote a letter to his family: “When a soldier falls in battle, it’s sad. But I ask you ... Many young religious Jewish men have fallen in this war — many ...

An unexpected knock at the door changed everything for a Limpopo family when the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) arrived with sad news that their soldier son, Louis Calvin Moagi ...