IDF Tick Tock

IDF tic toc is a viral video of a flash mob produced by soldiers in the Israel Defence Force (IDF).

The video was filmed in 2010 by soldiers serving in the IDF Nahal Brigade and posted on Youtube under the heading "Batallion 50 Rock the Hebron Casbah". It shows six soldiers on patrol in Hebron armed and wearing bullet-proof vests and as they walk cautiously down a street. The Muslim call to prayer can be heard coming form the loudspeaker of a mosque. Suddenly the voice of pop singer Kesha breaks in. She is singing her hit song Tik Tok, "Tonight I'm gonna fight, Till we see the sunlight, Tick tock on the clock but the party don't stop, no," and the soldiers break into the dance moves of the macarena.

The video follows several recent videos posted by soldiers in other armies, including one showing American soldiers in Afghanistan dancing to Telephone by Lady Gaga. Israeli soldiers have posted numerous comedy videos and videos of Israeli soldiers in uniform suddenly breaking into dance and song posted.

Controversy
The IDF statement read: "This was a joke by the soldiers and the matter is currently being investigated by the battalion commanders."

Haaretz reported that the soldiers involved "could face disciplinary action." Agence France-Presse reported that the soldiers were likely to be be "punished" for "inappropriate conduct during a military operation." The soldier who uploaded the video removed it from Youtube, but it had already spread across the Web and was quickly reposted by other Youtube users.

There were calls for the soldiers to be punished harshly on the grounds that the video hurts the IDF's image. But others called it "a funny sketch made by 18 years-old men." According to reporter Dominic Waghorn of Sky News]] official reaction to similar IDF videos in the past has "ranged from a threat of disciplinary action to a shrug. Military life can be boring, they've got phones, they listen to music. Stuff happens."