Israeli President Moshe Katsav decided to pardon a woman sentenced to nine months in prison for failing to prevent the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Margalit Har-Shefi is now slated to be released on Aug. 10 after serving two-thirds of her sentence.
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