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" 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). The video was filmed in 2010 by soldiers serving in the IDF's Nahal Brigade. It had been viewed more than 1.6 million times online in the first few days after being uploaded to YouTube. ==Video== The video opens with six infantry soldiers from the Hod platoon of the Nahal Brigade's 50th Airborne Battalion on foot patrol. They are in a two-by-three formation in Hebron in the West Bank, a tense flash point of attacks on Israeli soldiers.〔 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. 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). Suddenly, the voice of American electropop singer Ke$ha breaks in. 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"''. With the music, the soldiers abruptly break into choreographed dance moves.〔 The soldiers perform synchronized dance steps singly and in pairs.〔〔 The soldiers suddenly stop dancing and continue their patrol.〔〔 The Israeli newspaper ''Yediot Aharonot'' reported that some Palestinian natives of Hebron told reporters that the music the soldiers danced to woke them up at dawn, but the video was actually filmed 7 p.m., in the half-light not of dawn but of evening. It was filmed without music, a commander calling out the dance moves. The music was edited in later. And that it was shot in an area considered free from strife.〔()"Real Israel: Dance troops," Liat Collins, July 23, 2010, Jerusalem Post.〕 The 106-second amateur video was praised for its artistry in "juxtaposing tension and cathartic dance."〔 According to ''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".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Batallion 50 Rock the Hebron Casbah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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