Unit Social Cohesion in the Israeli Military as a Case Study of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

By Danny Kaplan, Amir Rosenmann
August 2012

The presence of openly gay soldiers does not undermine unit cohesion, according to a new statistical analysis of the Israel Defense Force (IDF). The study surveyed 417 male Israeli soldiers from 22 military installations. Statistical analysis of responses to the survey indicated that for both combat and non-combat units, the presence of openly gay troops in a unit had no relationship to the cohesiveness of the unit. Israel has allowed gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military since 1993.

Sponsored by the Palm Center the report, “Unit Social Cohesion in the Israeli Military as a Case Study of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”,” appears in the current issues of Political Psychology and is authored by Danny Kaplan of Bar Ilan University and Amir Rosenmann of the University of Haifa.

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