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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: August 20, 2007 |
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Following 12 soldiers' refusal to evacuate settlers from Hebron's marketplace, Meretz MK Avshalom Vilan proposed amending the IDF oath to ensure that soldiers follow only the orders of their commanders, not their rabbis, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The soldiers who would not evacuate hundreds of right wing activists from Hebron two weeks ago were said to be adhering to the advice and responding to the encouragement of their rabbis.
They were sentenced to 28 days in prison and barred from serving in combat units for the duration of their service.
Vilan proposed inserting the word "only" into the soldiers' pledge to "obey all the orders and instructions handed down by authorized commanders."
"I am against any type of ideological refusal of orders," Vilan, a former soldier in the IDF's elite General Staff Reconnaissance Unit (Sayeret Matkal) explained Sunday. "By adding the word 'only' the soldiers are obligating themselves to only obeying their commanders and no one else." |
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