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Israel’s military chief lawyer resigns abruptly, vanishes, then surfaces on a Tel Aviv beach and faces jail time.

She admitted leaking surveillance video of alleged sexual assault by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian detainee in military prison.

The scandal reflects Israel’s deep divisions, with right-wing leaders attacking her rather than focusing on abuse allegations.

JERUSALEM — 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

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