Encouraging discipline in the IDF

I should probably preface this post by saying that I never served in the IDF. Having made aliya at an age well past the age at which one is normally drafted and at the tail end of the Russian aliya, the IDF had no interest in drafting me. (They did have a brief interest in my car, but that's another story). So I never served in the IDF. But something about this story doesn't make sense to me.Ten