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Yaakov Lappin

Israel’s Military Faces Threat To Cohesion Amid Controversial Judicial Reform

Dan Halutz (R), an Israeli Air Force lieutenant general and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces and commander of the Israeli Air Force, and Dany Yatom, former head of the Mossad, attend a rally against Israeli Goverment's judicial overhaul bills out of the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, in Jerusalem. PHOTO BY GILI YAARI/GETTY IMAGES 

On the day after Israel’s coalition unilaterally passed into law the so-called “reasonability bill,” part of its controversial judicial reform plan, Israel Defense Forces senior command is now in uncharted territory.

The IDF General Staff now must wait and see whether the large number of reservists who vowed prior to the bill’s passing that they would cease reporting for duty if it became law without a consensus make good on their threat.

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