Israeli security forces on Tuesday enlisted the help of ZAKA’s Diving Unit in the ongoing search for the cellular phone of Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, Israel’s former military advocate general, now behind bars.

ZAKA, an emergency response nonprofit, sent personnel to Tel Aviv’s Cliff Beach in a large-scale effort to locate the phone. They are covering an area up to 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from where Tomer-Yerushalmi was eventually located.

Even if the phone is never found, cyber experts say some of the material, such as applications which routinely back up to the cloud, may be recoverable.

Tomer-Yerushalmi, who has admitted leaking a video connected to the Sde Teiman Affair, disappeared on Sunday for several hours, sparking a full-scale manhunt in an ongoing drama that has rocked

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