
“Orly will the third female general in the IDF, and then it will be the first time that the General Staff will include two female generals - a significant and important achievement,” says IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi. Markman, who currently serves as the vice president of the military court of appeals, was chosen by the Military Judge Selection Committee, headed by Defense Minister Benny Gantz. Orly Markman has been named the next president of the Israel Defense Forces’ Court of Appeals, the military equivalent of chief supreme court justice, and will be promoted to the rank of major general, making her the third woman to ever receive the rank, the Defense Ministry says. Large police forces entered the neighborhood to conduct searches before the Palestinian demonstrators marched to the terrorist’s home.īrig. Few public services are available there, and lawlessness abounds.Īccording to Palestinian reports, some of Abu Shkhaydam’s family members have been arrested. The neighborhood lies within the boundaries of the Jerusalem municipality, but beyond the security fence. He was killed by police officers on the scene. The gunman, Fadi Abu Shkhaydam, was a senior leader in Hamas’s network in the refugee camp.
The violence comes shortly after hundreds of Palestinians marched in the refugee camp to honor a Hamas terrorist who shot and killed an Israeli and wounded four others in Jerusalem’s Old City this morning. Palestinian rioters clash with police in Jerusalem’s Shuafat Refugee CampĬlashes break out at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Shuafat Refugee Camp between police and Palestinian rioters, some of whom are throwing rocks at the forces.
