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On May 5, Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch postponed the start of the prison terms for Dan and Yitzhak Halamish, two Jewish security guards, convicted of assaulting 20 Bedouins who surrounded them with sticks and rocks on land belonging to the Jewish community of Sde Bar in eastern Gush Etzion. The brothers were sentenced to seven and eight months respectively and have applied for a pardon from President Shimon Peres.
The Knesset has approved a law stipulating that criminal records will automatically be expunged after seven years, when the case of the crime has been closed.
Prison authorities at the... Read More
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