Major Gilad Franken, an IDF officer who was fired following the affair of the death of the late soldier Niv Loveton, wrote a letter today (Tuesday) to the Chief of Staff, Major General Aviv Kochavi, and sharply attacked him for his conduct during the affair. The letter, submitted by the law firm of Tzipori Shlomo & Co., the main part of which was published in News 13, states that under Kochavi’s hands is conducting an “unprecedented campaign, unusual in scope and results” against Franken.
According to the ousted officer, the smear campaign against him is being conducted by “all IDF heroism and his capacity for consciousness is focused and concentrated in an organized campaign against one major who was banned from responding and complaining.” Lawyers said the IDF top officials had filed an appeal, in coordination with senior media figures who had published huge articles designed to mobilize the public to crucify Franken and seek to hold him solely responsible for the tragedy that led to Loveton’s suicide.
“Major Franken expressed from the first moment a personal shock and sorrow over the tragedy and even took command responsibility for the parts concerning the Be’er Sheva police station, under his command, in the chain of events that led to the tragedy. Strangely and inexplicably, instead of in-depth “To find out how the head of the ACA ignored the serious State Comptroller’s report on the IDF’s intelligence coordinators’ issue from 2018, you chose to place the entire command lesson on the shoulders of one major,” Franken accused the chief of staff.
Advocates went on to say that the campaign of incitement ignores the responsibility of the IDF senior commanders for a series of failures born of sin many years before Franken took office. It seems that the IDF is comfortable conducting a brutal crucifixion campaign against a major instead of examining their part. Of the senior officials. “
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Franken and his lawyers then turned to a number of other examples of incidents at the end of which a number of IDF female and male soldiers committed suicide, adding that “someone in the IDF seems confused, forgetting that this is an army over which law and state – and not an army subject to court decisions.”