Miriam Rosental, outgoing District Attorney of the Tel Aviv district, regrets having indicted Margalit Har-Shefi on charges of inaction despite having known in advance of plans to assassinate Yitzchak Rabin. Rosental, in an interview in today's edition of Yediot Acharonot, says that she differed at the time with Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein and the State Prosecution:
"I felt that we could not place on the shoulders of a 19-year-old girl the entire matter of knowing and internalizing all the serious things that were said before the murder… No one imagined that such an extreme thing would happen, and neither did Har-Shefi." Rosental summed up the case as "very problematic."
Har-Shefi was sentenced to nine months in prison. She was released in August 2001 when President Moshe Katzav reduced her sentence to six months, after the Parole Board refused to grant her parole.
"I felt that we could not place on the shoulders of a 19-year-old girl the entire matter of knowing and internalizing all the serious things that were said before the murder… No one imagined that such an extreme thing would happen, and neither did Har-Shefi." Rosental summed up the case as "very problematic."
Har-Shefi was sentenced to nine months in prison. She was released in August 2001 when President Moshe Katzav reduced her sentence to six months, after the Parole Board refused to grant her parole.