Firestorm in Israel over ex-military lawyer's IDF video leak
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Israel rocked by scandal as top military lawyer resigns, goes missing, is found and thrown into jail
JERUSALEM (AP) — Until last week, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was the Israeli army’s top lawyer. Now she is behind bars and at the center of a scandal rocking the country after a bizarre sequence of events that included her abrupt resignation, a brief disappearance and a frantic search that led authorities to find her on a Tel Aviv beach.
Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the recently resigned IDF Military Advocate-General, was found alive on a Tel Aviv beach Sunday evening after an hours-long search that began when she was reported missing earlier in the day.
Four people were killed in a strike in Kfar Reman, southern Lebanon, Lebanese media reported, while IDF sources pointed out the assassination targeted a logistics commander of the Radwan force. The IDF killed a terrorist from Hezbollah's Radwan Force in Kfar Reman,
The Israel Defense Forces indicated that a ceasefire was being resumed after the Jewish state, a key ally of the United States, executed strikes on Tuesday.
The Israeli military announced a targeted strike in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, on a site storing weapons. This move comes after the military resumed enforcing a ceasefire agreement due to multiple violations attributed to Hamas.
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Hundreds of thousands of haredi Jews protest in Jerusalem against Israeli military draft
( JTA) — Hundreds of thousands of haredi Orthodox Jewish men joined a mass protest in Jerusalem on Thursday to rail against the Israeli government’s efforts to enlist yeshiva students into the military. See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.
An Israeli military official told Reuters Hamas violated the ceasefire with an attack against Israeli forces in an area under Israeli control.
JERUSALEM/CAIRO — The Israeli military said it launched air strikes and artillery fire at targets in southern Gaza on Sunday, dimming hopes that a U.S.-mediated ceasefire would lead to lasting peace as Israel traded blame with Palestinian militant group ...
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir hosted US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine, holding a situational assessment, discussing regional challenges, including the Gaza Strip, over the weekend, the military confirmed on Saturday.