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The first brick in Israel’s ‘deep state’ wall has fallen
Avi Abelow
November 2, 2025

In a disturbing revelation this past week, Israel’s Military Advocate General (MAG) Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted to personally authorizing not just the release, but the amplification of a fabricated video accusing IDF soldiers of committing sexual atrocities against Hamas prisoners. The individual entrusted with defending our military instead became the mouthpiece for a lie so grotesque it painted our defenders as monsters and helped fuel anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations, branding them as rapists. In doing so, this senior legal official created the worst blood libel in all of Jewish history, with billions of people around the world seeing that doctored video and believing the outrageous charges. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Timeline of a scandal: The 17 months of the Sde Teiman abuse and video leak affair The scandal surrounding the leaking of security camera footage from the Sde Teiman military detention facility by former Israel Defense Forces military advocate general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi has roiled the country for days. Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted last week to leaking the video, which purportedly showed the severe assault and abuse of a Palestinian security detainee by IDF reservists at Sde Teiman in 2024, in an effort to counter right-wing allegations that she was unfairly victimizing soldiers in a time of war.