And who is this guy, Alex, to begin with? He's a 17-year-old. When he was eight, someone put him on a boat in Odessa and sent him, shipped him to Israel on his own.
Кто же этот парень Алекс? Ему 17 лет. Когда ему было 8 лет, его посадили на пароход в Одессе и отправили в Израиль одного.