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Breakdancing troops wow Facebook

Viral video shows street dance session outside Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station

By Gavriel Fiske

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6 April 2014, 1:39 pm 3

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Gavriel Fiske is a reporter at The Times of Israel

Breakdancing IDF soldiers in Jerusalem (photo credit: image capture Facebook/Tamar Bitton/Son of the Drum)

A video clip showing a trio of break-dancing IDF soldiers was shared over a thousand times since it was uploaded to Facebook on Thursday.

The video, uploaded by a Facebook user to the page of “Son of the Drummer,” a percussion group focused on street performance with everyday objects, shows two Nahal infantry soldiers and a female soldier from an unknown unit impressing the crowd outside the Jerusalem Central Bus Station.

In full uniform, to the accompaniment of live hip-hop and drum-and-bass beats, the soldiers perform a series of acrobatic urban dance moves, trading improvised solos to the encouragement of a large crowd.

Their video, which seems to show a spontaneous performance, is about five minutes long.

Hopefully the soldiers didn’t miss their bus while dancing.