At the last minute, the State Prosecutor's Office filed an appeal over the weekend with the Supreme Court against the leniency of the nine-month sentence given to Border Guard Ben Deri in a plea bargain for negligent homicide in the death of a rioter during a disturbance on Nakba Day four years ago. Nakba is the Arabic word for catastrophe that hostile parties use to describe the founding of modern-day Israel.
The plea bargain did not include agreement regarding the punishment. Deri has appealed the severity of the sentence.