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Far-right MK demands police rescind his summons for questioning over break-in at Sde Teiman base
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot demands the cancellation of his pending appearance for questioning over his actions in breaking into the IDF’s Sde Teiman base last summer, claiming the integrity of the investigative process is in question due to the recent arrest of former military advocate general Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi.
The far-right lawmaker received a police summons last week regarding the part he played in a mob that rioted at the military base in July 2024, after Military Police detained several reservists on suspicion of severely abusing a Palestinian terror detainee held there.
During the break-in, Sukkot was filmed pushing through the gates of the base despite efforts by troops to block his entrance.
Days after the incident, Sukkot doubled down on his actions in the Knesset, insisting that he had been doing his job and that he was permitted to enter “any place in the State of Israel” for the purpose of oversight.
In a letter reported by Channel 12, Sukkot’s attorneys demand that his questioning be cancelled due to the “corruption” highlighted by Tomer-Yerushalmi’s recent admission that she leaked a video to the media that purports to show IDF soldiers severely abusing a Gazan detainee at the military facility.
Sukkot’s attorneys also claim that Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has “a conflict of interest” in the matter and that under her the law enforcement system “does not have the moral integrity to conduct an investigation into any matter related to the Sde Teiman affair and its ramifications.”
In a tweet, the right-wing Honenu legal aid organization, which is representing Sukkot, says that any investigation of the lawmaker “cannot be conducted with integrity in a system that, he says, is tainted by corruption and a serious conflict of interest.”
“At this time when the house of cards of the Sde Teiman events has collapsed and the corruption that accompanied the case from its inception has been exposed, the last thing the Israel Police should do is to investigate Knesset members for their activities… to monitor and prevent harm to IDF soldiers,” the group writes.
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