Justice Minister Yariv Levin decided to leave the investigation into the "Mazrit Affair" without an assistant. This was after the High Court once again rejected the appointment of Judge Asher Kola as the assistant to the investigation.
According to a report today (Wednesday) on the B network, in addition to the High Court's disqualification of Judge Kola, the Civil Service Commissioner disqualified several candidates presented to him by Minister Levin to oversee the investigation - including a lawyer from the Public Defender's Office, after determining that they did not meet the parameters set by the judges.
According to the report on Network B, the Minister of Justice does not intend to accept the judges' proposal and allow them to appoint the investigator themselves, and at the same time is desperate in his efforts to find a civil servant who meets the court's criteria and who will agree to serve in the position.
It now appears that the investigation will continue at the police station, without an escort, but petitions regarding the failure to appoint an escort may be filed later.
Last month, the High Court of Justice annulled the appointment of retired Judge Kola as the person in charge of investigating the Magistrate's affair. In a precedent-setting ruling, the judges determined that while the Minister of Justice has the authority to appoint someone to oversee the investigation of the affair, the law prohibits the specific appointment of retired Judge Kola, concurrently with his tenure as the Commissioner for the Review of Judges.
However, in the ruling, the High Court judges allowed Justice Minister Yariv Levin to appoint another candidate on his behalf to examine the affair.
In her resignation letter to Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir last month, IDF Chief of Staff Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi admitted to her involvement in leaking the video from the Yemeni field affair.
In her letter, she explained that she approved the leak of the video to the media in an attempt to counter propaganda and a delegitimization campaign of the military prosecutor's office and law enforcement elements in the army, which reached its peak around the investigation into the abuse of a terrorist in a Yemeni field.
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