“There’s a sense that this time the public is focusing its rage on the judicial system”
The Israeli judicial system has been in a state of shock since masked military police stormed the Sde Teiman military base to arrest soldiers suspected of abusing detained Nukhba terrorists several weeks ago. Accustomed to running the show, the legal junta that brought the government to its knees during the judicial reform now finds itself the target of a sustained public fury no one in the judiciary predicted.
The nonstop demonstrations in front of the Military Advocate General’s home, as well the clashes between bereaved family members and High Court justices at a hearing on the case, reflect the shifting atmosphere. Since the incident, the judiciary resembles the Yemenite port of Hodeida after the Israeli airstrike.
“We didn’t expect a public backlash on this scale,” a friend, a longtime attorney, told me this week. “I’ve never seen anything like this. There’s a sense that this time the public is focusing its rage on the judicial system.”
And so when Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi — virtually unknown until her decision to arrest the soldiers at Sde Teiman — was summoned to appear before the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, public interest was high.
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