The World - News from June 23, 1987
Israeli Justice Minister Avraham Sharir, reversing an earlier decision after a Supreme Court rebuke, ordered the extradition of a Jew convicted in France of murdering an Arab, the Justice Ministry reported. William Nakash, 25, a French-born Jew, fled to Israel in 1985 after being convicted of the murder of a nightclub owner and was granted Israeli citizenship. His extradition was opposed by rightists and Orthodox Jews who argued along with his defense attorney, Roland Roth, that Nakash would not be safe in a French prison. Roth said he will appeal.
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