Alon Margalit is Research Associate, Hotung Programme for Law, Human Rights and Peace Building in the Middle East, SOAS, University of London. The long awaited Turkel report which examines Israel's practice of investigating allegations of wrongdoing during armed conflict by its security personnel was published in early February 2013.  The report (see original…

Alon Margalit is Research Associate, Hotung Programme for Law, Human Rights and Peace Building in the Middle East, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. The author wishes to thank the editors of EJIL:Talk! for their helpful comments on an earlier draft. It has been almost six months since Osama Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by a…