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MI officer commits suicide on army base
By Amos Harel
Tags: Military Intelligence 

A officer in a sensitive position in Military Intelligence shot himself in the head on his base yesterday, in an apparent suicide.

The Military Police are investigating whether the suicide was due to personal circumstances or his intelligence work.

The officer, a 43-year-old major, was a married father of two. He had served for many years in various functions in MI's electronic intelligence-gathering unit, 8200.
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Yesterday he came to work as usual at the unit's base in central Israel. He worked for about two hours in his office, and then shot himself in the head with his service weapon.

While military investigators have not yet officially ruled the death a suicide, they are working on that assumption, as the position of the weapon found next to the body indicates he likely took his own life.

Unit in shock

The officer's death was received with shock in the unit, which is considered MI's most exclusive. Military sources told Haaretz that their preliminary investigation found no indications that the officer was contemplating suicide.

Suicides have been on the rise in the IDF in recent months. However, at this point, the incidents appear to be unrelated. Most of the victims are conscript soldiers.
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