Following the incident of the death of a Palestinian elderly man at a checkpoint in Ramallah, Battalion Commander Yehuda was reprimanded, two officers were dismissed, the battalion was transferred to another sector and criminal indictments are pending against the commanders and soldiers involved.
The ultra-Orthodox soldiers are dealing with a complex human situation.
They were not winked at from another material.
They are like everyone else and a little more, if you look at the struggle of the ultra-Orthodox soldier from the bird's eye view.
Line erosion is a concept of the fate of every combat soldier, and a mistake in judgment is common in the IDF's combat districts, and is not typical only of the ultra-Orthodox in uniform.
Is sticking a moral stain on the ultra-Orthodox battalion, which will not be easily erased, the right thing to do?
In recent days, the impression has been created that this is an armed religious militia, heard only by the commander-in-chief sitting somewhere upstairs, while this is an incident that could have happened in any other battalion.
The ultra-Orthodox youth is facing the fire.
This time it is a deadly fire of a terrorist organization, which deprives the fighters of the Judea and Samaria fighters. Sometimes it is faced with a friendly fire from home, one that is accompanied by humiliation or a violent incident in one of the dark alleys To defend against it.
That is why the ultra-Orthodox soldiers are confronted on two fronts: with the Palestinians in the West Bank and with the extremist ultra-Orthodox, who "do them the death" when they return home.
Since the break-in of the Pandora's box of the Ramallah sector, which is sheltered in the shadow of the ultra-Orthodox battalion, sharp and hot ricochets have pierced the morale of the ultra-Orthodox soldier wherever he is.
Anyone who used to think aloud about an ultra-Orthodox battalion that would one day capture the Ramallah sector is suspected of being unsettled, because in those days it was pretentious and unrealistic, while generals believed that recruiting ultra-Orthodox was an unprofitable business.
And here, despite the gloomy forecasts, there are today two operational ultra-Orthodox battalions, which are safely marching towards an ultra-Orthodox brigade and occupying a significant sector.
But while the people of Israel salute them and are convinced that uniformed ultra-Orthodox are building a bridge between parts of society, we are witnessing a delegitimization campaign by elements to whom this message is a bit foreign.
How ironic that the recruitment law, which offers a new outline for recruiting yeshiva students, went through a first reading last week and contains a dubious arrangement for resolving the social issue that obscures the secular-ultra-Orthodox relationship in the place of the state to this day.
While the Knesset formulates laws that are not implemented and convenes committees on the issue of recruitment that rise and fall, ultra-Orthodox youths hold weapons to protect their people, and sometimes even make human mistakes.
The calls to disband the battalion do not, to say the least, add to the motivation to serve.
Even the increasing pressure on the military prosecutor's office to turn soldiers stationed at the line of fire into criminal offenders only exacerbates the crisis.
A different and more considerate approach can be taken.
It can be dealt with as part of a disciplinary proceeding, rather than a criminal proceeding.
A criminal proceeding harms the motivation of all IDF soldiers as soon as they become criminals. The prosecution of fighters for actions they have performed in the course of their duties should be a last resort, to be taken only in very exceptional cases.
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