Unit 8200 veterans threaten to refuse reserve service
Above 1000 veterans of the IDF's elite cyber warfare will not volunteer for reserve duty if the reasonability clause is reduced.
Above 1000 veterans of the IDF's elite cyber warfare will not volunteer for reserve duty if the reasonability clause is reduced.
Admiral Michael Rogers was reportedly in Israel last week to discuss cyber threats from Iran and Hezbollah.
Unit 8200 soldiers who protested Operation Protective Edge in Gaza to be dismissed.
Interviewer claims Snowden leaked 'deal' for NSA to share spying information on Palestinian Arabs with Israel, via Unit 8200.
Journalist Yaron Avraham, who served in the elite intelligence Unit 8200, lashes out at leftists who signed a refusal letter.
Intelligence reservists who declared that they would not serve in the IDF should be praised for their 'courage,' said Meretz MK Horowitz.
"Your selfish and self-righteous act did not hurt the State, but did hurt the Zionist left," the MK wrote to leftist Unit 8200 reservists.
Only a handful of leftist soldiers from intelligence unit calling for insubordination actually served in combat; IDF vows zero-tolerance.
Backlash continues after leftist reservists accuse elite IDF unit of abuses in Judea-Samaria; politicians blast 'disgusting slander.'
Defense Minister says leftist reservists who accused elite intel unit of abuse taking part in 'delegitimization' campaign against Israel.
LAbor party head Yitzchak Herzog is a major in the elite Unit 8200, from which 43 reservists signed a letter of insubordination.
'This political refusal has no place in the army,' past and present soldiers say, rejecting 'cynical use of the political system.'
MK Yariv Levin blasts soldiers who published refusal to serve in elite unit. Levin: 'They do not deserve the privilege of serving.'
Members of prestigious Unit 8200, including far-left activists, send media letter refusing to 'harm innocents' by gathering info.