High Court issues provisional orders against all sides in Sde Teiman video leak petitions

The High Court of Justice issues interim injunctions ordering all sides in the petitions relating to who will have oversight authority over the investigation of the Sde Teiman video leak to file responses by today at 8 p.m.

A hearing on the petitions is scheduled for Tuesday before High Court justices Yael Wilner, Alex Stein, and Gila Canfy-Steinitz.

One petition filed by Likud MK Avichay Buaron and the conservative Lavi organization requests that the court order Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to not be involved in the criminal investigation of the former military advocate general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, since she had ultimate oversight over a previous, flawed internal probe of the leak by the Military Advocate General’s Office.

Another petition filed by the liberal Israel Democracy Guard organization requests that the court annul Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s appointment of State Ombudsman for Judges Asher Kula to oversee the investigation instead of Baharav-Miara and the Attorney General’s Office.

The order is issued in order to expedite the judicial process due to the highly sensitive nature of the situation and the tension between different government agencies and figures who are in parallel claiming authority over the investigation.