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Military Insubordination, Protest, and Society

Event Date(s):
4/7/2010
Military insubordination and the limits of protest are among the most pressing and emotionally laden issues in Israeli public discourse today. In order tohave an impact on the voices heard regarding this matter in Israeli society today, on Wenesday April 7, 2010, the Israel Democracy Institute and the Faculty of Law of Bar- Ilan University convened a conference that explored the limits of public protest and the implications of the refusal to follow orders for Israeli democracy and Israeli society. The conference was open to the public and was broadcast live on the IDI  website and on the website of the Bar-Ilan Law Faculty.

Sessions at IDI's Conference on Military Insubordination, Protest and Society explored the following topics:

  • Evacuation of settlements: An assignment for the army or civil authorities?
  • Obeying orders: What are the limits?
  • The limits of civil protest: Test cases
  • Protest and insubordination in Israeli society

 

Among the thinkers and public figures who joined IDI's Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer, Prof. Yedidia Stern, Prof. Yaron EzrahiRabbi Yitzhak Levy, and Dr. Moshe Hellinger were:

  • Mr. Shlomo Aharonishky, High Commissioner (Ret.) of the Israeli Police
  • Former MK Dr. Yehuda Ben Meir, the Institute for National Security Studies
  • Former MK Prof. Naomi Chazan, President of the New Israel Fund
  • Major General (ret.) Uzi Dayan, Former Head of the National Security Council
  • MK Prof. Aryeh Eldad (National Union), former IDF Chief Medical Officer
  • MK Tzipi Hotoveli of the Likud
  • Rabbi Elyakim Levanon of Elon Moreh
  • Commander (ret.) Mickey Levi, former Jerusalem Chief of Police
  • Prof. Aryeh Reich, Dean of the Law Faculty of Bar Ilan University
  • Former IDF Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin Shahak, former MK and Minister of Transportation

     

The sessions generated a great deal of debate among panelists and members of the audience in the packed auditorium.

IDI-Bar Ilan Insubordination Conference Poster
Conference Program