Ya'akov Turkel

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IDF soldier shooting live bullets at demonstrators in Nabi Saleh, November 2, 2012 [illustrative] (Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Legal panel: IDF doesn’t follow own procedures regarding Palestinian civilian casualties
The Turkel Committee, appointed following the deadly raid on the Mavi Marmara, determined that the IDF didn’t follow its own procedures in cases of Palestinian civilian casualties. However, the committee also believes that the IDF should continue to be the one probing its own actions. The Turkel Committee, which was appointed to examine the events…
By Noam Sheizaf February 7, 2013
The Israeli inquiry into its lethal response to the Gaza flotilla is a transparent sham. In the photo: the flotilla boarded by IDF troupes (photo: Israel MFA)
Chief Flotilla raid investigator gives Israel advice on Hasbara
The leader of the flotilla incident investigation committee castigates government, media – and exposes his committee as a sham Former Supreme Court Judge, Ya’akov Turkel, harshly criticized both the government and Israeli media today (Hebrew). Turkel claimed the government “doesn’t know how to do Hasbara properly” (inarticulateness in the original), and that its Hasbara organs…
By Yossi Gurvitz June 16, 2011
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