LIMITING THE AUTHORITY OF THE COUNTRY: Disobedience in the IDF

Disobedience and the military are two opposites, as discipline and obedience to the commanders’ orders are the basis of the military structure. However, every army faces cases of disobedience of soldiers, and each army has its own ways of dealing with these situations as well as avoiding them. The case discussed in this essay is the disobedience of Israeli soldiers during the summer 2005 evacuation of the settlements in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli government decided to evacuate the settlements in a unilateral act, not as part of a peace agreement with the Palestinians. This decision was extremely controversial in