Yifat Yerushalmi Tomer

Yifat Yerushalmi Tomer was born in 1974 in Netanya

Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was born in 1974 and grew up in Netanya. She studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem through the Military Academic Reserve and graduated with honors. She later earned a master's degree in law from Tel Aviv University in 1999 and another from the US Army legal school after 2003.

She joined the Military Advocate General's Corps in 1996 and became a lawyer in 1997. She held several posts there, including legal assistant to the chief military advocate and head of the Legal Supervision Branch. In that role she represented the prosecution before the committee that demoted Elhanan Tannenbaum to private.

In 2007 she became a military court judge, and in 2010 she was made deputy president of a military court. In 2015 she returned to the corps as head of the Advisory and Legislation Department. From 2019 she served as the chief of staff's advisor on gender affairs and started the Metsapim center for parents in service.

On 1 September 2021 she became chief military advocate and a major general, the first woman to head the corps. She served in the post during the Gaza war. She resigned on 31 October 2025 after admitting she approved the leak of a Sde Teiman video, and a criminal investigation was opened against her.