An urgent petition was filed with the High Court of Justice seeking to have the court invalidate the plea bargain deal made with former Arab MK Basel Ghattas.
Ghattas will be facing a criminal indictment after it was established that he smuggled cellular telephones and other items to Arab terrorist imprisoned in Israel. He submitted his resignation from Knesset earlier this week, which has gone into effect, as part of a plea bargain agreement.
The petition was filed by former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari, who heads the Otzma Yehudit party along with Honenu attorney Itamar Ben-Givir, Baruch Marzel and Bentzion Gupstein of Lehava.
The petition calls on the court to issue an interim injunction prohibiting presenting the plea bargain on Wednesday, 24 Adar.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The plea bargain can be presented and rejected by the Court as happened with former Chief Rabbi Metzger. He made a bargain on his sentence which the Court rejected and substituted a longer period of incarceration. Same thing could and should happen here.