Interest in the Margalit Har-Shefi case continues to rise, with the new website dedicated to her cause reporting between 2,500 and 3,000 hits a day. She is scheduled to enter prison for nine months next week, following her conviction of knowing about Yigal Amir\'s assassination plans and not doing anything against them. She has consistently claimed that she did not know of his intentions. The site now features articles in both English and Hebrew, and provides the fax number of President Moshe Katzav (972-2-5611033) for requests for clemency. The Women in Green organization also recommends that faxes be sent to Justice Minister Meir Shetreet (972-2-628-5438).
Beit El Rabbis Zalman Melamed and Shlomo Aviner called for a special post-Purim collective recital of Psalms \"in order to save and strengthen our dear sister Margalit Har-Shefi.\" Rabbi Melamed wrote in the Beit El journal, \"A terrible injustice has been perpetrated on Margalit. I call upon the public to cooperate in whatever efforts are needed to help clear her name.\" Writing in the same journal, Rabbi Aviner wrote, \"Margalit, we know and believe that you are innocent, that you are our representative to suffer unjustly. May we merit that the truth will emerge quickly.\"
One article on the new website, by Uri Elitzur, attempts to explain how was it that GSS head Carmi Gillon said, \"We did not even conceive of the possibility of a Jew getting up and killing the Prime Minister.\" Elitzur writes, \"The answer is that it was known intellectually, but it was not internalized. It just didn\'t click. This is of course something that must not happen to professionals; they are not allowed to make that mistake. But it does happen, and it is human... If this is what happened with hundreds of professional who receive salaries not to make that mistake, who had all the material in front of them - then what do you want from this young girl? The GSS Chief was forced to resign… but he did not go to jail. Is Margalit Har-Shefi going to jail instead of Carmi Gillon?\"
Beit El Rabbis Zalman Melamed and Shlomo Aviner called for a special post-Purim collective recital of Psalms \"in order to save and strengthen our dear sister Margalit Har-Shefi.\" Rabbi Melamed wrote in the Beit El journal, \"A terrible injustice has been perpetrated on Margalit. I call upon the public to cooperate in whatever efforts are needed to help clear her name.\" Writing in the same journal, Rabbi Aviner wrote, \"Margalit, we know and believe that you are innocent, that you are our representative to suffer unjustly. May we merit that the truth will emerge quickly.\"
One article on the new website, by Uri Elitzur, attempts to explain how was it that GSS head Carmi Gillon said, \"We did not even conceive of the possibility of a Jew getting up and killing the Prime Minister.\" Elitzur writes, \"The answer is that it was known intellectually, but it was not internalized. It just didn\'t click. This is of course something that must not happen to professionals; they are not allowed to make that mistake. But it does happen, and it is human... If this is what happened with hundreds of professional who receive salaries not to make that mistake, who had all the material in front of them - then what do you want from this young girl? The GSS Chief was forced to resign… but he did not go to jail. Is Margalit Har-Shefi going to jail instead of Carmi Gillon?\"