Ex-IDF advocate general discharged from hospital, will be questioned in coming days

By Charlie Summers

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5 December 2025, 11:44 am

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Now-former military advocate general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi attends a ceremony for outgoing Supreme Court judge Yosef Elron at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on September 18, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former military advocate general Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi is discharged this morning from Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center, after spending nearly a month in the hospital.

Police say that she will be summoned for interrogation in the coming days for her role in the Sde Teiman video leak scandal, as the battle over who will oversee the investigation drags on in the High Court.

The ex-IDF legal chief was hospitalized on November 9 after medics were called to her home to find that she had overdosed on sleeping pills, in what was later confirmed to have been a suicide attempt.

Tomer-Yerushalmi is at the center of the ongoing investigation into the leak and its subsequent cover-up. Soon after police announced the probe’s launch, she resigned from her post and admitted to approving the leak of the footage, which purported to show IDF troops abusing a Gazan detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility.