"Batallion 50 Rock the Hebron Casbah" is a viral amateur dance video in the flash mob style produced by soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
[1] The video opens with six infantry soldiers from the Hod platoon of the Nahal Brigade's 50th Airborne Battalion on foot patrol.
[1][2][3][4][5] The soldiers are walking cautiously down a deserted Jabel Rahma Street, near the Tel Rumeida site, in the Jewish section of Hebron, armed and in full combat gear, including bullet-proof vests.
[6][7][8] The Muslim call to prayer can be heard coming from the loudspeaker of a mosque (all the sound in the video was edited in after the footage was shot).
She is singing her hit # 1 pop song Tik Tok: "Tonight I'ma fight, Til' we see the sunlight, Tick tock on the clock but the party don't stop, no".
"[17] According to The Jerusalem Post columnist Liat Collins, "television stations in countries including Britain, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, the US, India, and Brazil couldn’t resist the temptation to show the clip, and at least one broadcaster declared the soldiers "cute".
They include one showing American soldiers in Afghanistan dancing to Telephone by Lady Gaga, which has been viewed online over five million times.
[31] The Hong Kong newspaper The Standard said that the soldiers had undertaken some "daring maneuvers" which "appeared to indicate they had undergone some sort of special training".
[11] According to reporter Dominic Waghorn of Sky News, official reaction to similar IDF videos in the past had "ranged from a threat of disciplinary action to a shrug.