Dov Har-Shefi, whose daughter Margalit began serving her nine-month jail sentence yesterday, talked with Arutz-7\'s Haggai Segal today. He first expressed thanks for \"the tremendous amount of support we received, the piles of letters, email, and faxes we received, and the people who sent faxes to the President [for her pardon].\" Har-Shefi said that Margalit is not willing to have her sentence shortened or commuted to public service: \"She knows she did nothing wrong, and she will settle for nothing less than a total clearing of her name.\"
Segal asked, \"In order to be pardoned, she has to express regret for her actions - but in this case she claims that she didn\'t do anything. How can this paradox be solved?\"
Har-Shefi: \"Not only that, but she was convicted of lack-of-action, of not preventing the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin - the first time that someone was ever convicted of not preventing a crime without at the same time having committed a crime himself. So just as this is the first time, there can be another first time [for the President to grant a pardon without the person expressing regret].\"
Segal: \"Is there anything that she regrets, in any event? [Margalit answered this question herself in a television interview by saying that she regrets not having read the situation correctly and realizing that Yigal Amir would actually carry out his threat.]
Dov Har-Shefi [bitingly]: \"Yes - she regrets not having stood up for Rabin during the interrogation, which angered them and got her three months in jail, and not having said \'of blessed memory\' when referring to Rabin during the interrogation, which got her another three months...\"
Former Supreme Court Justice Tzvi Tal said today that in his opinion, the Supreme Court erred when they convicted Margalit Har-Shefi of not preventing the murder of Rabin.