Precedent: Soldier who waved refusenik sign expelled from IDF
A soldier who was involved in the incident during which signs were held up calling on soldiers to refuse orders during the IDF swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall has been expelled from the army after refusing to express remorse.
A senior officer in the personnel department decided on the move based on a recommendation from the command committee. The expulsion is the harshest punishment a lone soldier can receive. The political protest in October by new recruits in the Shimshon battalion of the Kfir brigade caused a public storm, during which Defense Minister Ehud Barak also decided to remove the Har Bracha yeshiva from an arrangement with the IDF over its support for insubordination among soldiers. (Hanan Greenberg)
