Ex-IDF legal chief tells police no official outside her office knew she leaked classified video

Former military advocate-general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who resigned after admitting she leaked a classified video, told police this week that she successfully concealed her identity as the leaker, and no one outside her office was involved in the leak or knew that she was behind it, the Kan public broadcaster reports.

No evidence has emerged during the investigation that anyone in the offices of the attorney general, state attorney, or IDF chief of staff was aware of Tomer-Yerushalmi’s involvement, Kan adds.

The leaked video purported to show IDF soldiers severely abusing a Gazan detainee at the Sde Teiman facility last year. It was shared with media after military police arrested several soldiers suspected to have participated in the alleged abuse, and the arrests sparked several riots at military bases amid demands for the soldiers’ release.