Draft dodgers caught via Facebook

I've just come a cross an article several weeks old, yet it tells quite a modern work-related story.

It seems that the Israeli army has come up with a way to deal with female draft dodgers - by using Facebook to see if they are actually Orthodox Jews.

Here are some of things the Israeli army found:

Examples of young women who had declared themselves exempt posting photographs of themselves on Facebook in immodest clothing, or eating in non-kosher restaurants.

Others were caught by responding to party invitations on Friday nights - the Jewish Sabbath.

For more details see Israeli army uses Facebook to expose draft dodgers by Wyre Davies (BBC News).

Facebook misbehaviour and the consequences

The Israeli military cancelled a planned raid on a Palestinian village after one of its soldiers posted details of the operation on Facebook.

The unnamed soldier revealed the time and place of the raid and the name of his unit on the social networking site.

He said on his status update that his unit planned a "clean up" raid.

The soldier was court-martialled and sentenced to 10 days in prison.

He was also ousted from his battalion and relieved of combat duties.

See Israeli military 'unfriends' soldier after Facebook leak (BBC News) for more details.