A Jerusalem court convened to hear U.S. officials press their extradition request for a Maryland teen-ager charged with murder. Lawyers for Samuel Sheinbein have been challenging the request, citing an Israeli law that a citizen of the Jewish state who commits a crime abroad cannot be extradited. Israel’s attorney general, Elyakim Rubinstein, stated last year that the citizenship law does not apply to Sheinbein.
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