(JNS) Over the past several days, Israel has been become embroiled in one of the most convoluted political scandals in recent memory.
Last week, Israel’s military advocate general, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, admitted that she had personally authorized and amplified the release of security footage from the Sde Teiman Prison. The video surfaced in July 2024, showing IDF reservists allegedly sexually abusing a Gazan detainee at the site.
The footage, later leaked to Channel 12, prompted public outrage, the indictment of several soldiers, and riots in which demonstrators stormed the Sde Teiman base and the Beit Lid military court where the reservists were taken.
Tomer-Yerushalmi said she leaked the material “to fend off public criticism that culminated in right-wing mobs storming Sde Teiman and the Beit Lid military court.”
Defense Minister Israel Katz had pressed for her dismissal, but Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned before he could remove her from the post.
Police subsequently opened an investigation into her actions. Tomer-Yerushalmi is suspected of obstruction of justice, fraud, breach of trust, abuse of authority and concealment of evidence.
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