Why Israel is reeling after top military lawyer Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi's arrest

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : He said the public's reaction -- veering from sympathy to outrage -- shows how fragile Israel's internal cohesion remains, even after two years of war.
44% : Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, once Israel's top military lawyer, now sits in a jail cell -- at the center of a scandal that has shocked the nation and deepened divisions within its military.
44% : " The timing was symbolic: as Tomer-Yerushalmi appeared in court Monday, Israel marked 30 years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin -- another moment when hatred and division reached a national breaking point.
34% : The episode adds to a growing list of senior military and legal figures who have quit or been pushed out during Israel's ongoing war, often replaced by loyalists to Netanyahu's hard-line coalition.
33% : Israel's hard-right leaders accused her of betraying the military and exposing soldiers to public shaming.
32% : The controversy has again exposed Israel's deep divisions and, for now, has shifted attention away from the alleged abuse of the Palestinian detainee, the case at the heart of the video.
28% : She's being held at a women's prison in central Israel.
28% : According to Yohanan Plesner of the Israel Democracy Institute, the scandal has exposed three overlapping legal battles: abuse of detainees by soldiers, civilian interference in military investigations, and the potential crimes linked to Tomer-Yerushalmi's leak.

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