Overview
- Attorney General Gali Baharav‑Miara recused herself and transferred supervision to the State Prosecutor’s Office following the Justice Ministry legal adviser’s opinion citing a conflict of interest.
- Justice Minister Yariv Levin said he appointed retired judge Asher Kula to oversee the inquiry, a contested appointment that is the subject of petitions before the Supreme Court.
- Police searched the Military Advocate General’s Corps offices under a court warrant, and the police commissioner ordered all investigative outputs routed to him pending the Court’s ruling on oversight.
- Investigators confirmed a cellphone found off Herzliya belongs to former MAG Yifat Tomer‑Yerushalmi and began forensic data extraction, as a court released her to 10 days of house arrest with restrictions.
- Haaretz reported that the Palestinian detainee at the center of the abuse case was returned to Gaza without prior testimony, which law‑enforcement sources say could weaken the prosecutions of the accused soldiers.