Opposition MKs condemn incitement following brief disappearance of Tomer-Yerushalmi

By Ariela Karmel

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2 November 2025, 9:56 pm

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Ariela Karmel is a political correspondent at The Times of Israel. She previously reported for Calcalist and Haaretz. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern and African History from Tel Aviv University and a BA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.

MK Gilad Kariv (The Democrats) chairs a meeting of the Knesset Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee, October 21, 2025. (Sam Sokol/ Times of Israel)

Labor MK Gilad Kariv chairs a meeting of the Knesset Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee, October 21, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Opposition leaders condemn political incitement against former military advocate general Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, which they claim contributed to her brief disappearance today, before she was found alive by police.

In a statement, Labor MK Gilad Kariv calls Likud spokesperson Guy Levy, who blamed the attorney general for Tomer-Yerushalmi’s disappearance, “an evil and despicable person, a rusted and warped cog in the poison machine.” Kariv added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers bear direct responsibility for the rhetoric Levy spreads.

Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned last Friday after admitting to leaking a video allegedly showing soldiers abusing a Palestinian security detainee at the Sde Teiman military detention facility.

Democrats leader Yair Golan says Tomer-Yerushalmi is subject to the same incitement that was directed against former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by far-right Jewish extremist Yigal Amir in 1995, 30 years ago this week.

“Thirty years after Rabin’s assassination, this same method of labeling ‘traitors’ and encouraging political violence continues. The incitement will only stop after those leading it are removed from power,” he says in a post on X.

Former opposition Blue and White MK Gadi Eisenkot, now leading an eponymous new party, also speaks out against incitement.

“Even if mistakes and failures occurred, inciting violence against public servants is grave and destructive,” he says. “The incitement and inflammatory rhetoric are tearing Israel apart from within.”