Israel’s attorney general defended a plea bargain reached with an American teen-ager who fled to Israel after a 1997 murder in suburban Maryland. Rejecting criticism from prosecutors in the United States, Elyakim Rubinstein told a news conference that the plea bargain with Samuel Sheinbein, in which Sheinbein will receive a 24-year prison sentence, is extremely harsh by Israeli standards.
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