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IDF soldier jailed for yawning during Rabin memorial service
By Haaretz Service
Tags: yawn, Israel News 

The Israel Defense Forces has sentenced a soldier to 21 days in jail for yawning during a recent memorial service for assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

The soldier yawned while the commander of the Ramat David Israel Air Force base was delivering a speech on last week's memorial day for Rabin. The senior officer paused for a few minutes after the yawn, which was allegedly long and loud.

The soldier was consequently by the army tried on account of his "disrespectful act" and was sentenced to 21 days in military prison. The IDF Spokesperson's Unit said that he is able to request a pardon, which will be considered according to military regulations.
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The soldier's mother told Israel Radio that her son was not disrespectful, but tired. She said that her son deserves to be punished for inappropriate behavior, but the verdict is disproportionately harsh.

She said that her son was raised upon Rabin's legacy, and that yawning is known to be an uncontrollable physical act.


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      1.   Sleepy time hero 14:12  |  Gideon Reader 12/11/08
      2.   "Yawning" a criminal act in Israel....???? 14:31  |  Swiss (Dino) 12/11/08
      3.   Well,now the usual haters will sing again 14:48  |  Hastaroth 12/11/08
      4.   But not such a hero as. . . 14:52  |  Mark Lincoln 12/11/08
      5.   Jailing this soldiers for "yawning" in a memorial from a traitor 14:55  |  JP 12/11/08
      6.   Israel is once a democracy, now becames an left dictartoship. 14:58  |  JP 12/11/08
      7.   Yawning 14:59  |  Nik Miller 12/11/08
      8.   Yeah,Lefties,build Rabin a monument higher than Kim Il Sung`s 15:15  |  Absolute Sweden 12/11/08
      9.   yawn 15:19  |  no further comment 12/11/08
      10.   So much for democracy 15:22  |  Dov 12/11/08
      11.   the IDF is a law unto itself 15:28  |  a jew 12/11/08
      12.   Really insane....the Rabin cult 15:28  |  Jewish State 12/11/08
      13.   Mark Lincoln: Saying Things Here He Never Would In Public 15:32  |  Tex 12/11/08
      14.   " the yawn, which was allegedly long and loud..." 15:33  |  Esther 12/11/08
      15.   Just imagine now.............. 15:33  |  Sean 12/11/08
      16.   He`d have got a lighter sentence beating up a Palestinian 15:33  |  Clickfool 12/11/08
      17.   yawning jailbird 15:36  |  Helm of Chelm 12/11/08
      18.   #7 Nik Miller - Would you have had him flogged 15:38  |  * BEN JABO 12/11/08
      19.   Dictator army 15:45  |  david 12/11/08
      20.   Jailed for yawning, while the killer of Rabin gets better treatme 15:49  |  Aounist 12/11/08
      21.   This reminds me... 15:50  |  Yakov 12/11/08
      22.   What BS! 16:04  |  Peyman 12/11/08
      23.   Well Aounist #20... doubt if this was a "political" yawn... 16:05  |  Esther 12/11/08
      24.   just funny 16:05  |  Efi 12/11/08
      25.   Yawning of soldier = 21 days military prison! 16:07  |  H.H.M. 12/11/08
      26.   Brainwashing as the army knows best 16:10  |  Ilan 12/11/08
      27.   the yawn 16:23  |  Ben 12/11/08
      28.   Military is fat, lazy, and undisciplined! 16:30  |  atrick 12/11/08
      29.   Fortunately he is in Isreal. Would be executed in Arab state 16:41  |  George 12/11/08
      30.   A soldier yawn more valuable than 1000 rabin peace plans 16:49  |  paulo2005 12/11/08
      31.   SHAME ON HIS COMMANDERS 16:52  |  MAGAD MIL 12/11/08
      32.   #11..you finally got it right! (end) 16:54  |  Edithann 12/11/08
      33.   gideon reader 1 17:05  |  potobac 12/11/08
      34.   6 "A leftist dictatorship" 17:12  |  Magnus K. 12/11/08
      35.   The psycho right is raving today 17:13  |  Mark Lincoln 12/11/08
      36.   I am not guilty 17:15  |  Mark Lincoln 12/11/08
      37.   Yawn 17:17  |  Jimbo Salsa 12/11/08
      38.   He did it on purpose and should be punished 17:17  |  Meir 12/11/08
      39.   I am absolutely horrified that so many are commenting 17:29  |  Magnus K. 12/11/08
      40.   yawn 17:47  |  don muntean 12/11/08
      41.   He wouod have received less punishment for killing a Palestinian 17:53  |  Labhras 12/11/08
      42.   magnus #39 and george #29 18:05  |  a jew 12/11/08
      43.   This reminds me of . . . 18:11  |  Zev Davis9 12/11/08
      44.   Israel is a Communist country! 18:23  |  Avraham 12/11/08
      45.   I can`t yawn for more than 5 seconds. Can you?? 18:34  |  Kenny 12/11/08
      46.   Soldier Yawning 18:40  |  Shalom 12/11/08
      47.   It could be worse... 18:54  |  Yakov 12/11/08
      48.   he can easily get away killing children 18:54  |  Gisele 12/11/08
      49.   communism, nothing less 19:03  |  fish israel 12/11/08
      50.   This is ridiculous! 19:24  |  Chaval 12/11/08
      51.   He`s tired - 21 days of rest will do him good! 19:45  |  motti 12/11/08
      52.   YAWN 19:46  |  Col [Res] COHEN 12/11/08
      53.   Thanks for the chuckle, Israel! 19:54  |  Mohammed 12/11/08
      54.   there is no day for the thousands dead from terror following the 20:46  |  leftistfacismlives 12/11/08
      55.   Tired soldier 20:46  |  Dan 12/11/08
      56.   Duh Dino #2 - In the Army when at attention - yes 21:06  |  B`Galil 12/11/08
      57.   Punishment for Lady Judge Yawning@service? 21:12  |  sam 12/11/08
      58.   I dunno 21:31  |  Colin Wright 12/11/08
      59.   To Col. (Res) cohen, 52 21:46  |  Magnus K. 12/11/08
      60.   FAME!!!!! 21:48  |  Clickfool 12/11/08
      61.   Absolute 21:53  |  Jari 12/11/08
      62.   To be absent from the body is what? 22:09  |  Janelle 12/11/08
      63.   "The yawn was long and loud". 22:14  |  Catholic Israeli 12/11/08
      64.   The IIDF is one big yawn,with it`s stupid laws 22:20  |  Uncontrolled Fart 12/11/08
      65.   Sonic Yawns 22:27  |  ron 12/11/08
      66.   #16 Clickfool. Lighter sentence... 22:31  |  Maureen Ann 12/11/08
      67.   Rabin wouldn`t agree, why should anybody else? 22:40  |  Citzen 12/11/08
      68.   agreed - it is uncontrollable - unfair judgment 23:20  |  michelle 12/11/08
      69.   what a disgrace the commander of the base where gilad was kidnapp 23:48  |  victor hardman 12/11/08
      70.   Forgive and forget that`s the leftist national anthem 23:50  |  Yawnie 12/11/08
      71.   RE: Lahbras and clickfool 02:31  |  judith 13/11/08
      72.   Can I go to jail for farting? How about picking my nose? 03:00  |  curious 13/11/08
      73.   #68, Judith... 06:03  |  Silvienne 13/11/08
      74.   #66, Victor hardman.... 06:06  |  Silvienne 13/11/08
      75.   #65, michelle in jerussalem... 06:07  |  Silvienne 13/11/08
      76.   yawning while in uniform 06:23  |  Shalom 13/11/08
      77.   Big Deal! Okay, get a 21 day rest. 06:25  |  Sam 13/11/08
      78.   Isn`t it strange? 06:59  |  rm 13/11/08
      79.   Curious whats the sentence for passing gas 07:13  |  Livin In Rishon 13/11/08
      80.   Irrepressible 07:26  |  Gordon 13/11/08
      81.   Answer to #58 - YAWN 07:33  |  Col [Res] COHEN 13/11/08
      82.   CFOOL depends what the peace loving Pal was doing 07:34  |  PETER SM 13/11/08
      83.   Answer to #63 - Golani - Humiliation 07:42  |  Col [Res] COHEN 13/11/08
      84.   ahhhh, BUT WAIT!; all you "left wing" naysayers! 09:07  |  eric 13/11/08
      85.   CFOOL.depends what the peace loving Pal is doing at the time 09:38  |  PETER SM 13/11/08
      86.   Herr Erich in New Mexico 09:38  |  Joe Moer 13/11/08
      87.   Jailed for yawning. 09:48  |  David Nigel Braham 13/11/08
      88.   SWISS No discipline in the Swiss Army? Allowed to yawn out loud 09:48  |  PETER SM 13/11/08
      89.   #19 to david the undisciplined 10:18  |  Hastaroth 13/11/08
      90.   I gues Rabin himself would have punished this soldier.. 10:20  |  Hastaroth 13/11/08
      91.   A very yawnable occasion 10:24  |  t. s. 13/11/08
      92.   Israel=Democracy? 10:35  |  DAT 13/11/08
      93.   to #21 10:58  |  Mars 13/11/08
      94.   the talkbacks tellng u we can not afford falling asleep 11:06  |  no Jews in Europe 13/11/08
      95.   Jewbilee 11:15  |  Moshe Schweinlieber 13/11/08
      96.   # 56 B`Galil and also # 84 eric 11:19  |  Swiss (Dino) 13/11/08
      97.   Peter SM on Dicipline in Swiss Army 11:21  |  Ari ben Yisrael 13/11/08
      98.   The Tired End of the Zionist Dream? 11:30  |  Melchett Mike 13/11/08
      99.   The Yawning Yarn 13:19  |  Michael J 13/11/08
      100.   How crazy can it get ? 13:23  |  Jack 13/11/08
      101.   Isael is one big yawn too.... 13:27  |  Dutch 13/11/08
      102.   No. 101 Dutch 14:04  |  Henry Blofeld 13/11/08
      103.   # 88 PETER SM / # 97 Ari ben Yisrael, and I always thought....... 14:28  |  Swiss (Dino) 13/11/08
      104.   I find the whole Rabin sainthood thing a big yawn. 14:30  |  S Judah 13/11/08
      105.   Very Funny Except For The Excessive Punishment 14:55  |  Jeff Northridge 13/11/08
      106.   Well Paulo#30, at least the yawn got you published... 15:25  |  Yaaaaaawn... 13/11/08
      107.   You got it wrong, Michael #99... 15:35  |  Esther 13/11/08
      108.   Are the Royal Guards at Buckingham Palace allowed to yawn loudly 15:40  |  Hastaroth 13/11/08
      109.   Quite right! 16:06  |  Ofer Maimon 13/11/08
      110.   I might yawn too 17:29  |  Edith 13/11/08
      111.   yawning 17:45  |  salam cantor 13/11/08
      112.   The other acts that go unpunished 18:18  |  Tzfonit 13/11/08
      113.   Peretz and the binocular incident 19:11  |  Axelrod 13/11/08
      114.   Hastroth in Greece; "our usual haters"...of Greece?? 19:12  |  Gray 13/11/08
      115.   The way I heard it . . . 22:51  |  Zev Davis 13/11/08
      116.   Yawning Yes but there is no need 23:38  |  Israel 13/11/08
      117.   It is not about Rabin 23:45  |  Israel 13/11/08
      118.   Being loud...very very loud 23:58  |  Ines 13/11/08
      119.   SWISS A country with no principles,enriches the likes of Nazis 00:30  |  PETER SM 14/11/08
      120.   MELCHETT Mike.What`s hapenning?neither the President nor anybody 00:48  |  PETER SM 14/11/08
      121.   #59 Magnus - Response 01:10  |  WYSIWYG 14/11/08
      122.   Mareen # 66 - How Right You Are... 01:12  |  WYSIWYG 14/11/08
      123.   Hastoth #3: Why "Hate" Greece Re: "our usual haters" 01:13  |  Gray 14/11/08
      124.   Having spent a bit of time 02:02  |  Mark Lincoln 14/11/08
      125.   And Olmert a criminal is still running the country 04:35  |  Simon 14/11/08
      126.   Story raises more questions than it answers 05:38  |  ghostoflutherblisset 14/11/08
      127.   #13, Tex...to Mark Lincoln... 06:14  |  Silvienne 14/11/08
      128.   More Time Than Soldiers Get for Shooting Palestinian Civilians 06:16  |  Buford T. Justic 14/11/08
      129.   On the other hand... 06:18  |  David Zukerman 14/11/08
      130.   # 86 alas, please forgive me herr moer (third try) 06:54  |  eric 14/11/08
      131.   I always praise Menachin Begin 07:14  |  JOHN MCLEAN 14/11/08
      132.   Smedley D. Butler 07:22  |  654 14/11/08
      133.   Buford T. Justic They do not dance in the streets& hand out candy 08:02  |  PETER SM 14/11/08
      134.   Israel is putting away the wrong soldiers 08:58  |  Dutch 14/11/08
      135.   #124 Buford T."Justic" 09:16  |  Hastaroth 14/11/08
      136.   Singularly odd 11:35  |  Josh 14/11/08
      137.   #3, Hasteroth 11:41  |  Josh 14/11/08
      138.   #127, Hastaroth... 21:04  |  Silvienne 14/11/08
      139.   To # 107 Esther of TA 02:40  |  Michael J 15/11/08
      140.   IDFers are jailed for much less 03:18  |  Josh 15/11/08
      141.   Purposeful Disrespect 07:55  |  Artesian 15/11/08
      142.   Get some rest now 08:06  |  Armen 15/11/08
      143.   A quote from Solzhenitsyn ‘s “The Gulag Archipelago” 18:57  |  Mladen Andrijasevic 15/11/08
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