Brig. Gen. Rachel Tevet-Wiesel, IDF adviser to the chief of staff on gender affairs, is one of the top two candidates in the running to become the next Military Court of Appeals president. If chosen, she will be promoted to major general, becoming only the second woman to reach that rank. The first was Maj. Gen. (res.) Orna Barbivai, who headed the IDF Personnel Directorate from 2011 to 2014. The other favored candidate to head the Military Court of Appeals is its current deputy president, Brig. Gen. Doron Piles. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon will head the committee that will select the next Military Court of Appeals president. The committee, which is expected to meet in the coming weeks, will also include Supreme Court President Justice Miriam Naor, Supreme Court Deputy President Justice Elyakim Rubinstein, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, IDF Personnel Directorate head Brig. Gen. Hagai Topolansky, Military Court of Appeals President Maj. Gen. Shai Yaniv, and a representative from the Israel Bar Association. Tevet-Wiesel is one of only four women in the IDF holding the rank of brigadier general. She is a judge by profession and served in the past as president of the Northern Command and Navy Military Court as well as president of the Central Command and Air Force Military Court. In 2012, she began her role as IDF adviser to the chief of staff on women's affairs, a title recently changed to IDF adviser to the chief of staff on gender affairs. Tevet-Wiesel made strides in promoting women's status in the IDF and established a sexual assault crisis center for soldiers. Piles, who has served as deputy to Yaniv since 2008, was featured in the media recently after presiding over an appeal hearing in the case of Elor Azaria, the IDF soldier who shot a neutralized terrorist in Hebron. Piles rejected the military prosecution's appeal against a prior ruling by military court judge Lt. Col. Ronen Shor, which sought to prevent Azaria from being released to open custody on a military base. Following Piles' ruling, Azaria was released to open custody, where he will remain until the end of his trial.