Military Advocate General's Corps
IDF's prosecution arm; opened 57 probes into detainee deaths with zero indictments and closed the WCK case without charges.
The Military Advocate General's Corps is the legal arm of the Israel Defense Forces. It traces to the Haganah's legal service, took its form with the IDF in 1948 as the Military Prosecution and was renamed in 1950; it prosecutes and defends before military tribunals, advises military authorities and supervises the IDF's investigative arms. Maj. Gen. Itai Ofir has headed it since his appointment by Defense Minister Israel Katz in November 2025, after predecessor Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned and was arrested that month after acknowledging her office leaked the Sde Teiman abuse video. In the linked stories, the Corps dropped charges against five soldiers accused of assaulting a detainee at Sde Teiman; Haaretz reported on July 17, 2026 that 57 criminal investigations into detainee deaths in IDF custody had produced no indictment; and on August 19, 2026 the Corps announced it would not open criminal investigations into the April 1, 2024 World Central Kitchen strikes while ordering a Military Police investigation into the March 2025 killing of 15 medics in Rafah. B'Tselem, as described on Wikipedia, criticizes these mechanisms as focused on individual soldiers and subject to delay.
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Roles
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- Lawfare
On Nov. 10, 2025, the minister of defense appointed Itay Ofir to the post of the IDF’s MAG.
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- Lawfare
On Nov. 10, 2025, the minister of defense appointed Itay Ofir to the post of the IDF’s MAG.
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- Al Jazeera — Israel arrests ex-army lawyer over leaked video showing Palestinian’s abuse
Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was detained overnight on Monday, according to the country’s national security minister, following a scandal that erupted after she leaked a video, resigned and then disappeared.
Figures
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- Il Sole 24 Ore — Israeli military investigations into deaths in Gaza: 57 cases without charges
The Israeli Defence Forces have opened 57 criminal investigations into the deaths of Gaza residents and a Lebanese detainee in military custody during the war, but none have led to an indictment, despite the fact that most of the deaths occurred within military detention facilities equipped with CCTV cameras and where potential witnesses were present, reports Haaretz.