About a year ago, the case of the death of an intelligence officer suspected of committing offenses that harmed state security exploded, according to the details allowed for publication. The IDF then emphasized that the officer acted for “personal” motives, and not for ideological or economic motives.
Today (Thursday) it is announced in Israel today that a member of the unit, a lieutenant in the army, fell from a building about three weeks ago to his death, apparently by deliberate suicide. Probably due to personal motives. He is the third soldier to commit suicide in the IDF in the past month, a high figure that may cause concern.
It should be noted that to date, the case of Officer T. has not been resolved, and that his family claims that he did not commit suicide in prison. The post-mortem tests did not yield unequivocal results. The family’s lawyer, Bnei Kuznitz, responded on behalf of the family to the IDF statement: “The IDF spokesman forgot that we are not in the 1980s and just as no one can be hidden, so it is impossible to brief journalists and publish irresponsible messages. “With the State Attorney’s Office, since the security risks in the publication have not yet been examined by the Operations Division.”