IDF

Israeli police have arrested Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the former Military Advocate General, following a political firestorm over the leaking of a video allegedly showing severe abuse of a Palestinian detainee. Her detention comes after a brief disappearance and heightens divisions across Israel over military accountability.

Tomer-Yerushalmi stepped down last week, accepting responsibility for authorizing the video’s release. She told senior officials she acted “in an attempt to counter false propaganda against the army’s law enforcement authorities.”

On Sunday, she was reported missing, triggering a wide search along a beach north of Tel Aviv. Police later found her alive and …