Soldiers Don't Need Hair, Sick Children Do
Dozens of hair salons across Israel are offering free haircuts, to men and women who are about to begin their military service, on the condition that the cut hair will be used for wings to benefit children with cancer.
When Corporal Daniel Segal of the Nahal Brigade joined the army, he knew he was going to have to part with his long blond hair. “It’s certainly something that defined me for a long time,” he said. “I haven’t really gotten a hair cut since the eighth grade.”
Before joining the army, Daniel attended a military preparatory program (mechina), where he was taught the value of volunteer activities, especially with children. “In mechina I thought a lot about how I could find myself …. A week before the beginning of my military service I decided I had to do it [donate my hair].”
A crowd of more than 200 people donated money with a $5 cover charge and raffle tickets, and others donned barber capes to donate hair to Locks of Love, a non-profit organization that donates wigs to children who suffer hair loss because of diagnostics
Hair salons are offering soldiers free haircuts, on condition that the cut hair will be used for wigs to benefit children with cancer. By Rachel Hirshfeld Dozens of hair salons across Israel are offering free haircuts, to men and women who are about to
