The psychologist Yuval Carmi, who confessed and was convicted in two cases in which he committed indecent acts on his patients, waives his license to practice and asked the Ministry of Health to delete him from the "Psychologists' Register."
His request will be discussed in a disciplinary committee and is expected to be approved.
Carmi was convicted last January of committing indecent acts on a patient, a victim of sexual assault who came to him for post-traumatic stress disorder treatment in 2017 and in another case committed indecent acts on a young woman who experienced a mental crisis.
He hugged a weapon and touched it without consent.
Simultaneously with his criminal conviction, he will be subject to disciplinary action at the Ministry of Health, when the disciplinary committee there was supposed to discuss the suspension of his license.
But Carmi, through his lawyers, proactively sought to revoke his license to practice psychology and delete it from the "Psychologists' Register."
A source involved in the case says that it appears that this is a tactical step aimed at "earning points" in preparation for his verdict in the criminal case.
Demonstration demanding that the indictment be amended against the psychologist Yuval Carmi, Photo: Yonatan Zindel / Flash 90
The Ministry of Health stated: "After his conviction for committing sexual offenses on patients, the Ministry of Health filed a complaint against the psychologist Yuval Carmi. In response to the complaint, Mr. Carmi announced that he wanted to delete his name from the psychologists' register.
In the past, there has been public criticism that the prosecution has chosen not to accuse Carmi of rape but of indecent acts between therapist and patient.
One of the victims, Kim Ariel Arad, also a huge initiative calling for the aggravation of Carmi's indictment /
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