(22.12.2015) “Breaking the Silence protects IDF soldiers in the impossible situation in which politicians have abandoned them,“ wrote Ayalon, a former commander of the Israel Navy, and Ron, who headed the northern district of the police during the events of October 2000 (in which 13 Israeli Arab demonstrators were killed by security forces). “The guidelines meant to silence the group are what damages and weakens the army,” they added.