If the IDF loses its basic values, it could wind up looking like ISIS, former Defense Minister Moshe Ya‘alon said on Wednesday regarding the trial of an Israeli soldier who shot and killed a Palestinian assailant in Hebron after he had been subdued.

Yaalon spoke to a group of about 1,000 high-school seniors on a trek sponsored by the kibbutz movement in southern Israel‘s Arava desert, a week before a military tribunal was expected to issue a verdict in the case against the soldier, Elor Azaria.

Ya‘alon said, „the IDF is an army that if it loses its basic values and moral legitimacy, it could wind up looking like ISIS.“