Movement for Quality Government says other officials suspected of crimes should follow IDF’s top lawyer lead and quit

The Movement for Quality Government in Israel says the leak by the IDF’s top lawyer Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi of investigative material regarding abuse at Sde Teiman is “a very severe act which harms proper administration and the rule of law.”

The organization welcomes her decision to take responsibility and resign, and expresses the wish that other public officer holders, including those suspected or indicted for criminal offenses, do the same, in a clear reference to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is standing trial on corruption charges, and numerous other cabinet ministers and MKs who are under suspicion of criminal wrongdoing.

“We respect the internalization of this public norm, and also call on the elected officials, who have a heavy cloud of criminal suspicions and indictments hanging over their heads, to learn from her, stop clinging on to the altar, set aside the keys and fight for their innocence from home,” says the organization.