Thursday, November 13, 2025, 14:43 Today (Thursday), a hearing at the Beit Lid Military Court opened with a demand by the attorneys of the five IDF Unit 100 soldiers indicted in the Sde Teiman case to dismiss the indictment. Honenu Attorneys Adi Keidar and Nati Rom are representing two of the soldiers. The Chief Military Prosecutor, Colonel Eli Levertov, represented the Military Advocate General at the hearing. The soldiers leveled sharp criticism at him at the beginning of the hearing: “What are you doing here? Aren’t you also involved in the leak [of the doctored video clip defaming the soldiers]? Where is the previous prosecutor who was investigated in the case?”
Attorney Keidar stated at the opening of the hearing, “If the Military Advocate General and the Office of the Chief Military Prosecutor genuinely want to rehabilitate their image, the obvious thing to do is immediately dismiss the indictment. If that does not happen, we will continue with this trial until we prove the soldier’s innocence. All of the branches of the Military Advocate General corrupted the investigation. There is no court that can convict the soldiers. Their names must be cleared. That is the least that can be done for them after everything they have endured. For every moment that this case continues, from this day forward, everyone responsible [for the injustice] will be made to suffer the consequences and pay a price.”
Attorney Rom said, “We hope that the State itself will come forth and dismiss the indictment.’ This is one of the most serious corruption scandals that the State has known, certainly within the law enforcement and judicial systems. We expect the indictment to be dismissed and the soldiers, along with the State of Israel, will be able to free themselves from this embarrassment. We hope that worthy people will be found to do a proper cleanup in order to rectify this aberration.”
Attorney Efraim Dimri, who has been representing the soldiers on the original charges added, “The soldiers are innocent, and we will leave here only upon the dismissal of the indictment, or an acquittal. If they do not want to dismiss the indictment, we will fight until the end, until a complete acquittal. Even if they want to conduct a trial with us, they do not have a witness for the prosecution. The soldiers are likely to sue the Chief Military Advocate, the IDF, and everyone who had a hand in the injustice.”
Honenu Attorney Adi Keidar speaking at the opening of the hearing (Hebrew);
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Honenu Attorney Nati Rom speaking at the opening of the hearing (Hebrew);
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