A delegation from the U.S. Justice Department arrived in Israel on Tuesday for talks with their Israeli counterparts regarding the two countries’ extradition treaties. The discussions come after U.S. legal officials were angered by the plea bargain Israeli prosecutors struck in August with Samuel Sheinbein, an American teen-ager who fled to Israel to avoid facing trial in the United States for the brutal 1997 murder of a Maryland teen. As a result of the plea bargain, Sheinbein received a 24-year prison sentence, considered mild by American standards.
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