Rabbi Nir Yaakov Mas, the dean of the Lev Tel Aviv-Shir Leneriya Yeshiva, is currently serving as a Humvee driver deep in the Gaza Strip. "I continued until the age of 45 as a regular soldier, but they took me out at 45, and now, when the war began, I wrote to them asking if they could rescind my exemption, send me into combat," Rabbi Mas said in a conversation with Arutz Sheva-Israel National News . Rabbi Mas, a disciple of Rabbi Yehoshua Weitzmann, is a father of nine and has surpassed the age of 50. "Turns out that one of the skills that I learned in the army is to be an operational driver in the dark, which is a rare commodity, drivers who know how to lead a convoy in the dark. Therefore they rescinded my exemption, and I find myself every day driving convoys into Khan Yunis."
