Former Israel Defense Forces Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who is currently under house arrest, was rushed to the hospital on Sunday morning after feeling unwell, Hebrew media reported.
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center’s Ichilov Hospital confirmed that Tomer-Yerushalmi was admitted to its emergency room, and said medical teams were “currently assessing her condition.”
The former top IDF lawyer was found unconscious in her home in the central city of Ramat Hasharon, but was not in life-threatening condition, according to Channel 12 News. The hospital reportedly ran tests to check whether she had taken too many sleeping pills.
Following the incident, the Israel Police appealed to the court to tighten the restrictions of Tomer-Yerushalmi’s house arrest, Israel’s Channel 14 News reported. Additional measures requested included continuous supervision during hospitalization and a ban on leaving the country, with the obligation to deposit all her passports with the police.
Tomer-Yerushalmi, who resigned on Oct. 31 amid a police investigation into her involvement in a high-profile leak scandal, was released to 10 days of house arrest on Friday after spending five days in detention.
In her resignation letter, Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted she had approved the leak of video footage allegedly showing the abuse of terrorist detainees from Gaza, claiming she had done so in an attempt to “fend off false propaganda directed against military law enforcement authorities.”
The footage from the Sde Teiman detention center in the Negev Desert allegedly shows an assault on a terrorist by five IDF reserve troops.
The former IDF military advocate general was arrested on the evening of Nov. 2 on charges of fraud, breach of trust, abuse of office, obstruction of justice and the passing of information by a public servant.
Tomer-Yerushalmi’s arrest came after she disappeared on a Tel Aviv beach for several hours, in what police now believes was a staged suicide attempt to evade arrest and tamper with evidence.
The former MAG’s disappearance was initially thought to be a potential suicide as her car was found abandoned at the beach and she had left a brief, obscure note for her family, which said, in part, “Don’t look back.”
She was located several hours after her disappearance. In the interim, her phone had disappeared. During initial police questioning, when asked about the device, Tomer-Yerushalmi told them: “Maybe my phone fell into the sea. I don’t remember,” per media reports.
The phone is believed to have been located by a swimmer on Friday, according to Channel 12.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Nov. 2 blamed the former MAG for “perhaps the most severe public relations attack the State of Israel has experienced since its establishment.”
The leak “caused immense damage to the image of the State of Israel and the IDF, to our soldiers,” Netanyahu stated at a Cabinet meeting.
Netanyahu said the public-relations damage Jerusalem suffered due to the leak was more “focused with such intensity” than any previous assault on Israel’s international legitimacy that he could recall.
“This requires an independent, impartial investigation, and I expect such an investigation to take place,” the premier added, speaking several hours before Tomer-Yerushalmi was reported missing.
