Ami Popper, who was sentenced to seven life sentences for the murders of seven Arabs in 1990 wishes to be interviewed by Channel 2 News. A request to interview him was made recently but Israel Prison Authority officials rejected the request. That request is now coming before the High Court of Justice, filed by Channel 2.
Following the release of over 1,000 terrorists in the Gilad Shalit deal, Popper requested a pardon from Prime Minister Netanyahu in 2013. That request was denied.
Former President Ezer Weizman reduced Popper’s sentence and he is only eligible to be paroled in about 16 years due to another conviction relating to a vehicular accident during a leave from prison in which his wife and child were killed. He was driving without a license.
Popper has become a baal teshuvah and today lives a chareidi lifestyle after becoming close to HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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baal teshuva…
I hope he is allowed to tell the part of his story where he killed his wife, daughter, and a newly married frum womans baby on January 17,2007 when he was recklessly speeding home from eilat and collided head on while passing illegaly. One aspect of this mans life is consistent: from when he lined up arabs and shot them in the back of the head, to 2007 when nothing or nobody else mattered but to get back to jail on time, complete disregard for human life is the name of his game. He should rot in jail. And as Torah observant Jews, we must condemn chilul Hashem for what it is, even if he has managed to deceive the gadol hador.