Slippery Slope

A Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court judge was summoned Wednesday for a clarification meeting by Supreme Court President Asher Grunis to address complaints that he made sexual comments to a police prosecutor during a hearing in his court last week. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Walla!)

A police officer was acquitted of a charge of sexual harassment committed against a national service draftee who served with him because the harassment only occurred during one telephone call, and in all his further attempts to call her she hung up the phone.

(Hebrew – Ynet)

Three colonels in the IDF’s Logistics Division were investigated by the Military Police CID, two of them due to irregularities and false reports, and the third for sexually harassing a female officer under his command. (Ynetnews)

(Hebrew – Ynet)

An IDF soldier was sexually harassed in a military base in the north of the country.  His superior officers have opened an investigation into the incident, but due to his reluctance to file a complaint, a Military Police investigation will not be opened.

(Hebrew – Walla!)

The IDF’s soldiers’ ombudsman, Maj. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Brick, describes instances in which commanders and staff made use of social networks in order to humiliate soldiers under their command.  In one instance, an officer uploaded a picture of her soldier to facebook with the text “whoever wants a cheap fuck here’s the girl for it”.

(Hebrew – Walla!)

Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College is not taking any action against a Jewish student who said to a female Arab student “come to the washroom, I’ll take off your veil and fuck you.”

(Hebrew – Mynet)

The Justice Ministry’s Police Investigations Department has filed an indictment against a policeman charged with an attempted sexual harassment of a 13 year old girl.

(Hebrew – Ynet)

A military court has convicted a soldier in a number of sexual offences commited against two female soldiers in his unit, including rape, sodomy, indecent assault and sexual harassment.

(Hebrew – IDF Attorney General)

The Justice Ministry’s department for the investigation of police officers announced that it plans on indicting former Jerusalem District commander,  Commander Niso Shaham, on charges of fraud, breach of trust, indecent assault, and sexual harassment. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Walla!)

Gavriel Ozeri, an ex-cop, has been convicted of committing an indecent act and sexual harassment of female police officers serving in the same unit as him in the Israel Police Operational Fitness School.

(Hebrew – Walla!)