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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Chinaka2014(m): 10:36pm On Feb 24, 2015
niaja all over, very beautiful

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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Dexema(m): 10:37pm On Feb 24, 2015
Jeezuzpick:


Judaism is a religion!

Not even all Israelis are Jews, did you know that?

Ever heard of Samaritans?
Samaritans,is sarimah one of them?
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by thaoriginator: 10:38pm On Feb 24, 2015
Jeezuzpick:


I dey feel your confidence, Bro!

On a serious note, if you face someone like her, assuming she is trained, you will throw your blow, miss, then be rendered BLIND!!

She will then systematically dismantle you while you are groping about trying to see!
We don't throw blows anyhow. We are the Originals
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Cityguy: 10:44pm On Feb 24, 2015
stevecantrell:
Iya, if you're a soldier then I'm your ISIS. You can take me down any day. grin
Lols..... very funny.
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by VirginFinder: 10:48pm On Feb 24, 2015
Dull Nairalanders wont read the OP before commenting.

Her dad is Israeli!

How then can she be a Nigerian especially from our own perspective

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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Jeezuzpick(m): 10:48pm On Feb 24, 2015
thaoriginator:
We don't throw blows anyhow. We are the Originals

OK.

I'll go sleep now.
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by anonimi: 10:54pm On Feb 24, 2015
ISpiksDaTroof:
Another brainy African lost to the outside world, while the ignorant ones stay behind and support crooks like GEJ and co that are intent on destroying their future.


Please since when did a child start claiming the country of her mother


Tobi grew up on the stories of her father, an Israeli who served in the IDF as a soldier in the Armored Corps.


Meanwhile I am sure that if I dig up posts on the two Nigerians who killed the British soldier, I will find many of the hailing posters here who said those murderers born of Nigerian fathers are British and not Nigerians shocked

Any chance for us to ever be RESPONSIBLE for our acts of omission and commission

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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Nobody: 10:57pm On Feb 24, 2015
omanifrank:
fine wating.. u see the teeth

Na that teeth make am fine pass sef

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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Beno3: 11:02pm On Feb 24, 2015
ellguapo:
Come join NA embarassed after the clueless has left, the incoming General will appreciate your worth


March4Buhari

*modified


When a tout gives birth to an slowpoke, they come here to call someone clueless. cheesy grin grin grin tongue
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Nobody: 11:44pm On Feb 24, 2015
She's pretty. smiley

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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by xoctic: 11:46pm On Feb 24, 2015
MisterLongman:

Lol.......
No wonder they are labelled "Dark Continent" because of their dark mindset
guys una no see say her dad na isrealite? That makes her an isrealite na
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Nobody: 11:47pm On Feb 24, 2015
thaoriginator:
do u knw d courses I passed thru?
Okay.
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Nicepoker(m): 11:50pm On Feb 24, 2015
ellguapo:
Come join NA embarassed after the clueless has left, the incoming General will appreciate your worth


March4Buhari

*modified
I cursed the day u were born.
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Nimen(m): 11:50pm On Feb 24, 2015
ellguapo:
Come join NA embarassed after the clueless has left, the incoming General will appreciate your worth


March4Buhari

*modified

you think Buhari will take an ex-Isreali soldier into the army, think again
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by lastpage: 11:56pm On Feb 24, 2015
Handsomeemmy:


Passover is holiday which symbolizes renewal and change. These two special qualities define Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, who came all the way from Nigeria to serve in the IDF.


Tobi grew up on the stories of her father, an Israeli who served in the IDF as a soldier in the Armored Corps. “At age 16, I decided that it was my time to make a change. I joind a program which send young people to Israel, and eventually helps them make Aliya,” Tobi says. “After one year I joined a ‘Mechina’ (a pre-military program), and it was there that I started to feel more connected to the army.”

Tobi Cohen had everything that she could ever want: a home, family, friends, school. But for many years she had a feeling that she was missing something. “I always wanted to come to Israel, ever since I was a small child,” says Tobi, who spent her childhood in Nigeria. “I wanted a deeper connection, to understand what ‘Israel’ is, and not just through stories.”

..And so phucking what?

I guess its those "confused people" again, trying to tell us they are JEWS? grin grin grin

How about showing me pictures of our gallant Female soldiers doing Nigeria proud..... routing Boko Haram? undecided


Lastpage!
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Reminez(m): 12:08am On Feb 25, 2015
alienvirus:
Rubbish
HATER !!!!!

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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by ndubueze92(m): 12:09am On Feb 25, 2015
ellguapo:
Come join NA embarassed after the clueless has left, the incoming General will appreciate your worth


March4Buhari

*modified
ur stupidity is alarming..
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Nobody: 12:57am On Feb 25, 2015
relchange:
this story is so disjointed and incomplete.
these questions arise before we could get the whole story:

(1) Her father is apparently an Israeli or a Jew; is her mother a Nigerian?
(2) If her mother is not a Nigerian, was she born in Nigeria?
(3) If she was born in Nigeria by non-Nigerians, did she naturalize in Nigeria? (i don't recall Nigerian citizenship being by birth, I could be wrong though).

merely growing up in Nigeria does not make one a Nigerian.

HER MOM IS A NIGERIAN AND SHE WAS BORN IN NIGERIA.ACCORDING TO OUR CONSTITUTION SHE QUALIFIES AS A NIGERIAN CITIZEN cool

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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Nobody: 1:01am On Feb 25, 2015
anonimi:



Please since when did a child start claiming the country of her mother

DUDE PLS LEARN TO READ.IF UR PARENTS COME FROM TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES .U CAN CLAIM EITHER OF THEM OR BOTH.CITIZENSHIP IS NOT BY FATHER ALONE.THEREFORE SHE IS A ISRAELI-NIGERIAN




Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Nobody: 1:05am On Feb 25, 2015
VirginFinder:
Dull Nairalanders wont read the OP before commenting.

Her dad is Israeli!

How then can she be a Nigerian especially from our own perspective
U ARE ACTUALLY THE DULL ONE HERE.SINCE HER MOTHER IS NIGERIAN AND SHE WAS ALSO BORN IN NAIJA WE CAN CLAIM HER.AND ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION SHE IS REGARDED AS ONE tongue

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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by REMMEI(m): 1:17am On Feb 25, 2015
Handsomeemmy:


Aunty Tobi ke? The lady fit be your younger sister ooo


Read more about her below.

From Africa with love: IDF gets first female Nigerian officer
Lieutenant Toby Cohen, 21, was born in Nigeria to a Nigerian mother and Israeli father • "I have fallen in love with Israel. This is my home and I see myself continuing my life here," she says • Cohen serves in IDF Homefront Command.

Danny Brenner

Lieutenant Toby Cohen: "It is very touching to be the first woman officer from Nigeria in the IDF" | Photo credit: Michel Dot Com

The Israel Defense Forces, more than any other organization, represents Israeli society. It is a melting pot that includes soldiers from all ethnic, religious and racial backgrounds, men and women, but even this human collage always has something new. For example, Israel's first female Nigerian officer, Lieutenant Toby Cohen, 21, who was born in Nigeria to a Nigerian mother and Israeli father. Her parents and 8-year-old sister live in the town of Kanu in northern Nigeria, while she immigrated to Israel on her own at the age of 17. Cohen serves in the Homefront Command.

"Even when I was 3 years old I knew I wanted to come to Israel. My father was born here and served in the Armor Corps, and our home in Nigeria was full of stories about Israel and the army," she said. "On Rosh Hashana and Passover we would always travel to celebrate with Dad's family in Israel, and as I was getting older I wanted more and more to get to know Israeli culture and strengthen my connection to Israel."

When she turned 17, Cohen immigrated to Israel alone within the framework of the Jewish Agency's "Young Judaism" program, and joined the Metzar pre-army educational program at Kibbutz Metzar in the Golan Heights.

On the Metzar program, Cohen learned Hebrew and her friends helped her get to know Israeli society more intimately and experience the country more completely. Cohen recalls that when her enlistment day arrived, her father came to accompany her on the special day.

"He was just as emotional as I was," said Cohen. "For him it was a dream come true, and his being there really helped me."

Cohen initially served as an operations sergeant in the Homefront Command, but was later accepted into the officers' training course. "My mother and my entire family attended the officers' graduation ceremony. It is very touching to be the first woman officer from Nigeria in the IDF. Obviously I have fallen in love with Israel. This is my home and I see myself continuing my life here."

Tzvika Levi, who heads the kibbutz movement's national lone soldiers program, said: "Yesterday I accompanied 250 lone soldiers to Bakum [the IDF's main induction center at Tel Hashomer]. The State of Israel owes them an enormous thank you for their willingness, determination and desire to contribute."

Levi emphasized the many hardships facing lone soldiers, saying, "When people say 'Good job, IDF,' they are talking about the lone soldiers who leave behind family, friends, jobs, studies and a comfortable life in far away countries, and come her on their own."

Levi added that lone soldiers come to Israel "with only one purpose -- to serve the country and contribute to its security, the purest and most honest way possible, and with all their hearts."

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=13945






How old d you think I am in the first place?.. and for someone like her to join the army deserves to be call a "ma" not only aunty..

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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by onitshaigbo(m): 1:21am On Feb 25, 2015
So proud of my country Israel.

Proudly Jewish.
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Nobody: 4:30am On Feb 25, 2015
I'm so impressed with this that I did an online search.

Here's from another perspective.

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=13945

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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Nobody: 4:31am On Feb 25, 2015
VirginFinder:
Dull Nairalanders wont read the OP before commenting.

Her dad is Israeli!

How then can she be a Nigerian especially from our own perspective

Because she lived in and grew up in Nigeria?

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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Nobody: 4:38am On Feb 25, 2015
thaoriginator:
If I give this babe one blow, she go faint if not die.. Who give her uniform?

Dude, you gonna get knocked the frak out grin

I've seen that shyte too many times.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlvQMPtqCnw

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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by Nobody: 5:21am On Feb 25, 2015
ISpiksDaTroof:
Another brainy African lost to the outside world, while the ignorant ones stay behind and support crooks like GEJ and co that are intent on destroying their future.

Wats so brainy about her, wake up dude and develop urself. Nonsense comment.
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by MightyFortress: 6:06am On Feb 25, 2015
Inspiring.

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Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by KingAdeOluomo1(m): 6:50am On Feb 25, 2015
daviddd:
Very beautiful young lady with a focus. This story lends credence to the fact that, if you dream big, there's nothing stopping you from achieving your dreams. Go for it. Keep your head up always. Impossible is nothing!
money can bro
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by naijaboyof4life(m): 7:20am On Feb 25, 2015
Iyowuski:
her papa na Isreali so how this come be news again
she has gone to serve her father's land(Isreal)

Actually in Israel, if the mama no be Jew, the child no be Jew. He is an israeli regardless of the parent.
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by thaoriginator: 7:34am On Feb 25, 2015
CityNG:


Dude, you gonna get knocked the frak out grin

I've seen that shyte too many times.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlvQMPtqCnw
I dare her to try me. Hmm! You go think say na jazz.
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by chukzyblingz(m): 10:27am On Feb 25, 2015
Iyowuski:
her papa na Isreali so how this come be news again
she has gone to serve her father's land(Isreal)

Israel's citizenship is along maternal line not paternal. That's what I heard. though I don't know if it has changed.
Re: Lieutenant Tobi Cohen, The Nigerian in Israeli Army by airsaylongcon: 11:06am On Feb 25, 2015
tobtap:
YORUBA JEW? cool cheesy grin... SHE FINE OOO

She is not a jew. One is a jew only if born of a jew i.e. Mother is a jew. Since her father is a a jet and her mother is not, she is Israeli not Jewish. I doubt the "jewishness" of the Father sef cos Jews have to many rituals they follow regarding food. I don't know if a Nigerian woman can cope with those rituals

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