Jerusalem, 9 November, 2025 (TPS-IL) — Israel’s former Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was hospitalized in Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital following a medical incident on Sunday morning.
“She is conscious,” a shospital pokesperson said. The hospital did not specify if Tomer-Yerushalmi tried to take her life. The incident follows a recent staged suicide attempt that police suspect was part of an attempt to destroy her cellular phone.
Tomer-Yerushalmi, who recently resigned as the Israel Defense Forces’ top legal officer, is accused of fraud, breach of trust, abuse of office, obstruction of justice, and unlawful disclosure of classified material in what has become known as the Sde Teiman leak scandal.
She was released to house arrest on Friday after a court ruling allowed her to remain at home for ten days. court supervision.
The investigation centers not only on the leak itself but also on possible obstruction of justice and other related offenses.
The video at the center of the case shows alleged abuse of a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman military detention facility. The Palestinian, whose name has not been publicly released, returned to Gaza on October 13 when Israel freed hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as part of an Israel-Hamas ceasefire. Five IDF reservists from the Force 100 Military Police unit were indicted in February for assault and causing severe injury.
Honenu, a legal aid organization representing two of the reservists, called for the charges to be dropped.
The Sde Teiman facility, established in southern Israel after the outbreak of the Gaza war, has held more than 1,000 detainees from Gaza suspected of involvement in terrorist activity.
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