![Far-right Israelis and relatives of the soldiers gather in front of the military court building and stage a protest against the arrest of nine soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman Prison in the Negev desert, in Netanya, Israel on July 30, 2024. [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2163919674-scaled-e1762257908243.jpg)
Every system built on control eventually faces a reckoning. There comes a day when the power that once pointed outward—silencing critics, suppressing truth—turns inward, consuming those who still dare to feel. That moment rarely comes with explosions or revolts. It arrives quietly, through acts of conscience that refuse to be buried. Israel seems to be standing at such a moment. The arrest of Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the country’s chief military prosecutor, for allegedly leaking a video showing the torture of a Palestinian prisoner, is not just a legal scandal. It is a mirror held up to a nation struggling with its own reflection. Tomer-Yerushalmi was not an outsider or an enemy. She was part of Israel’s most protected core—the legal and […]
