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Protesters gathered in Paris, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and London on Sunday to demonstrate against the ruling of France’s highest court that the killer of a Jewish woman in the French capital was not criminally responsible because he had smoked marijuana before the crime.
Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman, was pushed out of the window of her Paris flat to her death in 2017 by neighbor Kobili Traore, who shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great” in Arabic).
But in a decision earlier this month, the Court of Cassation’s Supreme Court of Appeals upheld rulings by lower tribunals that Traore cannot stand trial because he was too high on marijuana to be criminally responsible for his actions.
After two consecutive nights of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip to Israel, Hamas tells armed Gaza factions to “keep their fingers on the trigger.”
“We call on our noble resistance in Gaza to keep their fingers on the trigger, to keep their rockets on standby to target the enemy’s fortresses and military and vital structures,” Hamas says in a statement.
Hamas has not claimed direct responsibility for the rocket fire, which has been claimed by two other Gaza factions, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a branch of Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. Israel holds Hamas responsible for all fire from the enclave into Israeli territory, charging that it takes place with Hamas’s implicit consent.
Sarah Halimi. (Courtesy of the Confédération des Juifs de France et des amis d Israël)
The sister of Sarah Halimi an Orthodox Jewish woman in her sixties murdered in Paris in 2017 will seek a trial in Israel after the killer avoided being tried in France on the grounds that was not criminally responsible because he had smoked marijuana before the crime, lawyers said.
The news comes as French-speaking Israelis were preparing a series of demonstrations across the country on Sunday to protest the ruling by one of France’s highest courts.
Halimi died after being pushed out of the window of her Paris flat by neighbor Kobili Traore, 27, who shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great” in Arabic.)
US couple buys Tel Aviv apartment for NIS 84m
An American couple planning to immigrate to Israel has bought the entire 28th floor of the Dan Tower on Arlozorov Street.
In one of the country s biggest real estate deals in 2020, an American couple planning to immigrate to Israel bought the entire 28th floor of the Dan Tower on Tel Aviv s Arlozorov Street for NIS 84 million. According to Israel Tax Authority figures, this is one of the largest amounts ever paid for an Israeli apartment.
The Dan Tower was completed in 2019 and is considered one of Tel Aviv s most luxurious residential projects. The 29-floor high rise is located at 17 Arlozorov Street, one block from the seafront, on the form Dan Cooperative bus depot.