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Shady Zidan, a 23-year-old IDF officer, announced that he would leave the Israeli army in a Facebook post on Monday night.

"I gave everything to the state, I put myself in danger, I never saw it at home, until today, I'm proudly stood and saluted the flag … Until today, I sang the anthem "Hatikva" because I was sure that it was 39 was my country and I'm equal to everyone, "writes Zidan. But today, for the first time in my service, I refused to salute the flag, for the first time I refused to sing the national anthem, "he wrote [http://www.youtube.com] 19659019] "I am a citizen like everyone else and I quote and beyond in the state, and in the end I am a second clbad citizen? … I decided to stop serving this state, "wrote Zidan on Facebook