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The policemen claimed they were obeying an order to shoot curfew breakers, but judge Bejamin Halevy, in one of Israel's most important judicial rulings, said that soldiers must not obey an order that is clearly illegal. "The distinguishing mark of a manifestly illegal order," Halevy wrote, "is that above such an order should fly, like a black flag, a warning saying: 'Prohibited!' Not merely formally illegal, not covered up or partly covered...but an illegality that stabs the eye and infuriates the heart, if the eye is not blind and the heart is not obtuse or corrupt."