A state prosecutor asked an Israeli court to allow the extradition to Canada of an Israeli soldier accused of the beating death of a teen-ager in Toronto. Daniel Weiz, 19, is charged with killing Dimitri Baranovski last November in a fight over money and cigarettes. Weiz, who was visiting his father in Toronto, was arrested at his army base in Israel last December. The judge is expected to rule on the extradition April 10.
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