Former state attorney says IAF pilots should stop volunteering for reserve duty if judicial overhaul resumes

14 December 2024, 4:11 pm

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Former state attorney Moshe Lador attends a conference at the Knesset on December 11, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former state attorney Moshe Lador says IAF pilots should stop volunteering for reserve duty if the government resumes its controversial judicial overhaul plan, according to Channel 13 news.

Speaking at an event in Beersheba, Lador believes refusing volunteer reserves duty is “a legitimate tool” to prevent the country from “turning from a democracy into a dictatorship.”

Lador was a vocal opponent of the radical reform agenda amid mass protests against it in 2023 before war erupted in Gaza with Hamas’s October 7 massacre.

At the time, hundreds of reservists signed a declaration announcing that they would no longer show up for volunteer reserve duty in protest of the government advancing its plans to overhaul the judiciary.