Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, once Israel’s top military lawyer, now sits in a jail cell — at the center of a scandal that has shocked the nation and deepened divisions within its military.
The turmoil began with her sudden resignation, followed by a brief disappearance that set off a frantic nationwide search. Authorities eventually found her late Sunday night on a Tel Aviv beach, alive but shaken — ending hours of speculation that she had taken her own life.
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Her downfall began days earlier, when Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted to authorizing the leak of a surveillance video showing Israeli soldiers allegedly assaulting a Palestinian deta
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