Archive for the ‘demotion’ tag
Military and Security Forces: February 4, 2013
An IDF officer charged with assaulting and badly beating an Israeli Bedouin civilian at a roadblock in December was sentenced to 75 days of military work, demotion and a suspended sentence for two years as part of a plea bargain authorized by the Jaffa military tribunal on Monday. The court banned the release of the defendant’s identity until May this year. (Haaretz)
(Hebrew – Haaretz)
Military and Security Forces: February 6, 2012
The commanding officer of battalion 74 of the tank corps, Lt. Col. Muli Cohen, was removed from his post because he gave a false report to his superiors following an incident in which one of his soldiers was left behind after an operation in the village of Budrus in the West Bank.
Military and Security: December 24, 2011
The Kastina Military Court convicted an IDF officer who served as a commander in an elite unit for stealing 19 military objects and storing them at a friend’s house in Haifa. The officer was convicted for the theft of mortar shells, a bowie knife, a ceramic vest, seven smoke grenades, secret training materials, machine gun, revolver bullets and more. The court sentenced the officer to a month and a half of army community service and two months of probation. He was also demoted to second lieutenant.