From the Northern Front to the Factory: The Officer Managing a Business Between Reserve Duty Cycles
Oren Cohen, a reserve Colonel and owner of Green Polymer company, shared at the Channel 14 Conference the challenges of combining extended reserve service with business management. Cohen, who serves as the Golani Brigade's deputy…
Assessment
A reservist officer and business owner describes the tension between extended military service in the north and running a factory. His account highlights a structural pressure point: how civilian economic life absorbs the cost of prolonged reserve duty. The next question is whether government support programs can scale fast enough to keep businesses like his viable.