Efforts on behalf of Margalit Har-Shefi have begun to take shape. A three-justice panel of the Supreme Court upheld her conviction yesterday of not preventing the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, and she will be sent to jail for nine months on March 21. Writer and magazine publisher Chava Pinchas-Cohen called upon President Moshe Katzav to pardon her. She told Arutz-7 today, \"This is my gut reaction. For, although it is unfortunate that her case dragged out for so long [five years], there is one advantage: we can now see the murder of Rabin in a better perspective. We can see that the Oslo process, and all the events of that time, including the assassination itself, was the result of mistakes in judgment of an entire society... How then can it be that a young girl should take the entire blame of an entire country\'s mistake all on her shoulders? Especially when she is accused of lack of action, not action... As a citizen, and as a mother, I feel that it is just inconceivable to think of placing a young woman - who did not commit a crime - in prison with a group of women criminals.\"
Similarly, MK Tzvi Hendel called upon the President yesterday to pardon Margalit Har-Shefi. A group of Beit El residents gathered last night to plan strategies for keeping her out of prison. One of them, HaTzofeh columnist Meir Gross, said that even if a pardon is to be asked for, \"we must prepare the way by organizing mass protests and the like.\"
Similarly, MK Tzvi Hendel called upon the President yesterday to pardon Margalit Har-Shefi. A group of Beit El residents gathered last night to plan strategies for keeping her out of prison. One of them, HaTzofeh columnist Meir Gross, said that even if a pardon is to be asked for, \"we must prepare the way by organizing mass protests and the like.\"