Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered the Education Ministry to immediately cease the employment of Margalit Har-Shefi, who was convicted in 1998 of knowing of the plot to assassinate Yitzhak Rabin and failing to prevent it. The move followed the disclosure that Har-Shefi has been working as a substitute teacher in the Jewish settlement of Pesagot for the past three weeks.
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