Tenure

Damage

On a scandal – Amos Harel in Haaretz:

‘Nearly two days after the eruption of a scandal over the leak of a video showing a Gazan detainee being abused by Israeli guards, Israel's top legal officer announced her resignation on Friday amid the escalating Sde Teiman affair.
The Military Advocate General, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, submitted her resignation to IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, handing him a letter she had prepared the previous evening. Her departure appeared inevitable amid the immense damage inflicted on the Military Advocate General's Corps – and arguably on Israel's broader law enforcement establishment.’

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‘"I authorized the release of materials to the media in an attempt to debunk false propaganda against army law enforcement bodies," she wrote. "I take full responsibility … and it is from this responsibility that I have decided to end my tenure."
Notably, her letter made no mention of the more serious allegation now under criminal investigation – that senior figures in the military prosecution sought to conceal the source of the leak and may have misled Supreme Court justices in the process.’

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‘Driving the political tempo of the crisis on Friday was Defense Minister Israel Katz, who appears determined to squeeze every political advantage from the scandal.’

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‘If anything, critics argue that Tomer-Yerushalmi and her team showed too little resolve during the war to investigate additional suspicions of war crimes and abuses in detention facilities and Gaza.
The military prosecution's mishandling of the Sde Teiman affair not only undermines the rule of law in Israel's defense establishment but also raises new barriers to future investigations of potential misconduct by soldiers and officers in the field.’

Read the article here.

In other words, the steady destruction of the rule of law in Israel appears to be unstoppable.

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