They Asked Why the Military Advocate General's Case Is Stuck? When They Know They Stuck It

Uri Sela analyzes the delay in the case of the Military Advocate General, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, and claims that Justice Minister Yariv Levin, the coalition, and right-wing organizations caused the delay through attempts to appoint supervisors that were rejected and by avoiding the appointment of an alternative. The High Court rejected the petitions yesterday, and the case can proceed to an indictment, but Sela estimates it will take about a year and a half until it is filed.

In an opinion column published on Walla, legal correspondent Uri Sela analyzes the reasons for the delay in the case of the Military Advocate General, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who admitted that she was the source who passed the abuse video from the investigation file to Guy Peleg. Sela claims that Justice Minister Yariv Levin, accompanied by an aggressive campaign by the coalition and its mouthpieces, acted to appoint supervisors over the investigation, but these appointments were rejected by the High Court. He notes that Levin did not appoint an alternative accompanying figure, thereby delaying the progress of the case. The High Court yesterday rejected the petitions against the legal opinion of Yael Kotik, the legal adviser of the Ministry of Justice, which allowed the State Attorney to handle the case. Sela estimates that now, after the case was taken out of the freezer, it will take about a year and a half until an indictment is filed. He criticizes Levin and the coalition for acting to drag out the case, and that they do not care if Tomer-Yerushalmi is not brought to trial, as long as the Attorney General is not indicted. Sela notes that Levin refrained from appointing a supervisor for months, and that Judge Mintz, in a minority opinion, thought that more time should be given, which would have extended the delay even further.