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The graduates of Unit 9900 in the Intelligence Corps sent a letter this evening (Wednesday) to the Minister of Defense, the Chief of Staff and the Chief of the Army in which they wrote that they will not serve in the reserves due to "the predatory legislative processes that the government is promoting these days, chief among them, the attempts to cancel the existing balance between the authorities."
In the letter, which was signed by hundreds of reservists from the unit, including dozens of officers, they wrote that they felt it was their moral duty "to take a stand and refuse at this time a call to reserve service, as a force of the executive branch."
The reservists explained that in their view the legal revolution is "a real threat to the very existence of the State of Israel as a democratic state, according to the principles of the Declaration of Independence."
The members of the unit also called for "stopping the legislative processes as soon as possible, and after that, having an in-depth and professional dialogue that will lead to a broad agreement and a significant consensus regarding such fundamental changes in the form of government of our beloved country."
"A real threat to Israel's existence as a democratic state."
Demonstrators against the legal revolution (Photo: Avi Rokah)
A, a lieutenant in the response, and A, a major in the response, said after the publication of the letter: "It is with great sadness and solemnity that we declare that we will stop immediately and until the hasty legislation is stopped from volunteering for active reserve service in our sensitive positions in the formation - operational and intelligence." The officers added that they recognize " A serious and strategic danger to the security of the state, perhaps the greatest since its establishment - otherwise it has gradually turned into a non-democratic state, while severely violating the Declaration of Independence.
" The land that published similar letters. Among other things, some of the letters stated that they would refuse to come to reserve service if the government promotes the changes in the judicial system and harms democracy. In addition, the writers of the letters expressed fear of harming the operational activity and motivation to serve in the IDF in general.
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