Israel’s attorney general asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its refusal last week to extradite an 18-year-old youth to the United States to face a murder charge. Elyakim Rubinstein argued that the ruling in the case of Samuel Sheinbein went against the spirit of Israel’s citizenship law, which he said was intended to avoid prosecutions motivated by anti-Semitism or politics. The teen had sought to avoid extradition by claiming Israeli citizenship through his father. who was born in pre-state Israel and left the country as a child.
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