An Israeli soldier was jailed for urging his comrades to refuse orders to evacuate a West Bank settler outpost.. The deputy commander of the West Bank military brigades sent Sgt. Yossi Filant to 28 days in jail on Wednesday for conduct unbecoming a soldier, a sentence the soldier’s lawyer said he would challenge.
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