Report: Zamir has picked 3 top candidates for next military advocate general

IDF chief Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has reportedly selected his three top candidates to serve as the next Military Advocate General, after Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned from the post last week and was arrested last night over a scandal surrounding leaking a video to the media.

According to the Ynet news site, Zamir spoke last night with his preferred choices for the role, who all served for many years in the MAG office but left in recent years and were therefore not present during the recent scandal.

Zamir is slated to meet with Defense Minister Israel Katz in the coming days to present his candidates.

Yesterday the Kan public broadcaster cited Katz’s “inner circle” as saying that the next military advocate general must come from “outside the system,” meaning someone who did not serve in the Military Advocate General’s office.

But according to the Military Justice Law — the legal framework for military jurisdiction in Israel — the military advocate general must be “a military attorney with at least seven years of legal experience,” which removes the possibility of a civilian legal expert, or even a senior IDF officer who is not an attorney, serving in the role.