Israel Police Commissioner Daniel Levi has confirmed that former IDF Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was hospitalized Sunday morning after a suicide attempt, reportedly swallowing around 20 sleeping pills.

Tomer-Yerushalmi, who resigned from her post on Oct. 31 amid scandal over her admitted leak of a video of IDF reservists allegedly abusing a Gazan terrorist detainee at the Sde Teiman military jail, remains hospitalized at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center’s Ichilov Hospital as police consider extending her house arrest.

Tomer-Yerushalmi is conscious, a hospital spokesperson said.

The former top IDF lawyer was found unconscious in her home in the central city of Ramat Hasharon, but was not in life-threatening condition. The hospital reportedly ran tests to

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