The verdict is scheduled to be announced on Wednesday 6 Teves in the manslaughter trial of IDF soldier Sgt. Elor Azariya, who shot a wounded Arab terrorist dead in Hebron on Purim.
The prosecution is weighing options. If convicted, it will likely request immediate imprisonment and not permit him to wait until sentencing next month. The verdict will not be announced in the Jaffa Military Court where the case was tried but in a Tel Aviv court located in the Kirya, the Defense Ministry. It is explained this is simply to permit accommodating more people than the Jaffa court can accommodate.
At present the soldier is under house arrest in a Petach Tikvah base and the prosecution may ask to have him returned to jail prior to the sentencing on Wednesday. Elor’s attorneys this week called on Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman to order a probe in the handling of the case, including leaks to the media by military officials.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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He’s a hero Netanyahu should be ashamed
let this be a lesson to anyone joining the atheist/Sodom/Omorro Zionists army how you will be treated if you kill an armed terrorist. It is assur mideroisa to join the IDF, no heterim whatsoever.
Elor did what any and every IDF Jewish soldier should do, protect himself and others from terrorists.
If the IDF issues procedures that put our holy boys in the range of fire, injuries or death …. this will be the end of enlistment.
Re: karlbenmarx
Satmar, bdatz extremist (double expression) or whichever religion you come from is better?
#4 AUTHENTIC Yahadus which says you kill those that see to kill you.
#5 The IDF has killed thousands of terrorists in the past with no problems but based on this one story you state as a fact that this is how you will be treated if you kill an armed terrorist. So you make an assumption that this is gonna happen again when history shows us that there is a 0.001% chance of something like this happening (in case you’re bad at maths – tens of thousands of terrorists killed, 1 or 2 cases like azariya’s = 0.001%). There are better arguments for not joining the IDF but if this is your best argument then I’m joining IDF.