Guy Farache

Guy Farache is the CEO of Friends of Duvdevan, the U.S. 501(c)(3) that funds the welfare and rehabilitation of one of the IDF's most decorated counter-terror units. He served in Duvdevan as a company commander and holds the rank of Major in the reserves.

Friends of Duvdevan supports active-duty soldiers, wounded veterans, bereaved families, and the broader Duvdevan community through two streams of work: the Resilience Program — the foundation's flagship mental-health and rehabilitation initiative, which combines clinical treatment, structured peer support, family therapy, and long-tail rehabilitation — and direct soldier and family welfare. The foundation also runs a scholarship program providing roughly 100 scholarships per year to Duvdevan veterans who serve as volunteer mentors inside the unit's programs.

Duvdevan is the highest producer of PTSD cases in the IDF — a function of the unit's mission profile, which requires soldiers to move between civilian normalcy and high-risk undercover operations on rapid cycles. The foundation's work expanded sharply after October 7, when Duvdevan teams were among the first to engage in Kfar Aza and other Gaza-envelope communities.

Guy Farache writes for The Olam on donations to the IDF, IDF philanthropy, veteran rehabilitation, and the U.S.–Israel infrastructure that supports Israel's elite units. He also writes regularly in Israel National News on Israeli security and veteran welfare. He lives between Israel and the United States.

Areas covered: donations to the IDF · Duvdevan and unit-specific foundations · veteran welfare and PTSD · diaspora–Israel philanthropy · elite-unit operations and aftermath

Website: duvdevanus.org