Israeli Justice Minister Meir Sheetrit said he would recommend against pardoning a woman serving a nine-month prison sentence for failing to stop the 1995 plot to assassinate Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Sheetrit’s announcement regarding Margalit Har-Shefi came at a news conference.
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