An IDF officer with the rank of lieutenant, who served in the unit where the intelligence officer who died in the military prison served about a year ago, fell from a building about three weeks ago and apparently committed suicide. Israel Today has learned.
Preliminary specifications of the investigation indicate that the officer apparently decided to end his life as a result of personal motives and difficulties, but it is impossible not to link the case to the complex chain of events that led to Captain T.'s death in the military prison about a year ago.
According to the suspicion, Captain Tz tried to commit suicide in the cell: military prison, archive, photo: Moshe Shai
It will be recalled that the 24-year-old Captain T. was arrested after he was suspected of serious security offenses.
According to the details allowed for publication, the officer, who served in a highly classified technological unit in the Armed Forces, acted independently while committing the serious offenses, and was aware of the potential damage to national security as a result of his actions. Ideological or economic.
Captain T. was arrested while riding a scooter in Tel Aviv and imprisoned in the new military prison in Beit Lid, without being reported to the media.
On the night of May 16-17, during Operation The Wall Guard, Captain T. was in critical condition in his cell in prison.
He was taken to a hospital for medical treatment, where he was pronounced dead.
At this time, a year after the incident, the cause of death had not been determined, and Captain T.'s family claimed that their son, who was found dead in prison, had not committed suicide.
The officer's blood test, conducted in the U.S., did not yield unequivocal findings, and as of this moment the cause of his death has not been definitively determined.
Following the tragic event, and the fact that his arrest was hidden from the media until his death, the IDF set up a team of experts who examined the entire case from a systemic point of view.
It is not certain that there is a direct connection between the death of Captain T. in the military prison and the suicide of the officer in the rank of lieutenant about three weeks ago.
And yet, one may wonder how no signs of distress were identified in an officer who served in a unit in the Armed Forces, which has been under a magnifying glass in recent months following the Captain T. case.
Military prison, archive, Photo: Moshe Shai
Sources involved in the details noted that it may be necessary to re-examine all the identification of the geniuses serving in the technology units at the Armed Forces, and in particular the personality tests they pass.
Meanwhile, Israel Today has learned that the suicide of the officer from Captain T.'s unit joins three more suicides in the IDF in the past month. Soldiers, and for the year 2020 in which nine soldiers committed suicide.
However, the number of suicide bombers in the IDF has dropped significantly in recent years, after not many years ago there were 30-20 soldiers in the IDF each year, and sometimes even more.
Today, after each case of suicide, an MPI investigation is opened and a committee is set up that systematically examines all conduct. The IDF has found that the best way to prevent suicide is mutual guarantee and identification of signs of distress.
In addition, in order to minimize the phenomenon, the IDF reduced the soldiers' access to weapons, and the number of commanders in each unit was increased.
The IDF spokesman said: "The IDF is committed to maintaining the safety and health of its servants and is investing considerable resources in preventing suicide in advance, in cooperation with unit commanders, mental health and manpower. The IDF will continue to work to reduce casualties.
Every death of a soldier is thoroughly investigated and interrogated in order to arrive at the investigation of the truth and draw the necessary lessons.
This has also been done in recent events.
At the end of the investigations, the findings will be submitted to the military prosecutor's office for examination.
"The IDF shares the grief of the families and will continue to accompany them."
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