The IDF confirms that Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who resigned on Friday, has gone missing.
Police have been searching for Tomer-Yerushalmi, who has been unreachable since this morning. The scans have focused on Hatzuk Beach in Tel Aviv for the past few hours, according to first responders.
Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned on Friday after admitting that she had leaked a video that purportedly showed soldiers severely abusing a Palestinian security detainee at the Sde Teiman military detention facility last year.
She was set to be questioned under caution as part of a criminal investigation into the leak.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir instructed the Operations Directorate “to use all the means at the IDF’s disposal in order to try to locate her as soon as possible,” the military says.
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