41.   Shahak is leading the military at a time when motivation is at an all-time low among Israeli conscripts and reserve soldiers.

42.   So reserve soldiers with long hair cascading out from under their army hats are not a rare sight.

43.   The army confirmed that a reserve soldier had shot live bullets at a Palestinian demonstrator and added that it had opened an investigation into the incident.

44.   The cellular phones are particularly popular among reserve soldiers, some of whom use them to run their businesses even during tours of duty.

45.   The Israeli military would not say officially how many reserve soldiers would be putting on uniforms for the current conflict.

46.   The killing came a day after an Israeli reserve soldier was killed in a firefight near the West Bank town of Nablus.

47.   The men were not in uniform, but that is not unusual for reserve soldiers, who usually get their uniforms only after they check in at the base.

48.   The Israeli army said the four were reserve soldiers who made a wrong turn and inadvertently ended up near the center of Ramallah, a flashpoint for recent violence.

49.   The Israeli army was going house to house in communities along the border, checking the whereabouts of every reserve soldier who lives there.

50.   The Israeli army was going house-to-house along the border checking the whereabouts of every reserve soldier.