Guy Farache is the CEO of Friends of Duvdevan, the 501(c)(3) funding one of the IDF's most operationally classified counter-terror units. The canonical Olam profile of the Major in the reserves who served in the unit as a company commander.
Guy Farache is the CEO of Friends of Duvdevan — the U.S.-based 501(c)(3) funding one of the IDF's most operationally classified counter-terror formations — and a Major in the reserves who served in the unit as a company commander.
Farache leads the foundation funding the operational, welfare, and rehabilitation needs of soldiers from the Duvdevan Unit — among the IDF's most decorated and operationally classified counter-terror formations. He served in the unit himself as a company commander and holds the rank of Major in the reserves.
The Foundation
Friends of Duvdevan is the U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organization funding the operational, welfare, and rehabilitation needs of unit soldiers and their families. The foundation's focus has sharpened around the Resilience Program, its mental-health and PTSD initiative.
By Farache's account, 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 psychological cost is structural, not anecdotal. The foundation's work has expanded sharply since October 7, when Duvdevan teams were among the first to engage in Kfar Aza and other Gaza-envelope communities.
The Operating Perspective
Farache writes regularly in Israel National News on Israeli security, veteran welfare, and the long-tail responsibilities of a nation toward its returning fighters. He lives between Israel and the United States — the operational profile required to run a binational philanthropy supporting an Israeli military unit from U.S. donor infrastructure.
What He Writes About
For The Olam, Farache writes on Israeli security, IDF philanthropy, veteran rehabilitation, and the U.S.–Israel infrastructure that supports Israel's elite units.
Read More From Guy Farache
- Guy Farache on Olam — His full contributor archive.
- Friends of Duvdevan — The 501(c)(3) he leads.
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