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Police seeking to bar ex-top IDF legal chief from leaving country — report
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Police are reportedly seeking to confiscate the passport of former military advocate general Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi and bar her from leaving the country
Paramedics took her to Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov) from her home after receiving a report detailing an overdose on medication, Hebrew outlets report. The ex-IDF official is being investigated for obstructing a probe into the Sde Teiman video leak, to which she owned up after resigning from her post.
She is suspected of fraud and breach of trust, abuse of her office, obstruction of justice, and unlawful disclosure of material, over her role in the leak of footage purporting to show IDF soldiers severely abusing a Gazan detainee at the Sde Teiman facility last year.
A senior police official speaking to Ynet says her hospitalization has raised law enforcement’s worry that she will attempt to further obstruct the investigation into the leak.
Tomer-Yerushalmi went missing on the Tel Aviv coast a week ago and is suspected of having attempted to dispose of evidence on her phone, which she was not found with when police finally located her. At the time, authorities feared for her life and presumed she had attempted suicide.
The Times of Israel Community.