The four leading candidates are Ruth Ronnen and Khaled Kabub of the economic division of the Tel Aviv District Court; Jerusalem District Court Judge Gila Kanfy Steinitz; and Yechiel Kasher, who is in private practice
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Apr. 19, 2021 5:27 PM
A Tel Aviv court extended on Monday the detention of two Jaffa residents suspected of assaulting a local yeshiva head, in what police have dubbed as a racially-motivated attack. The suspects, Ahmed and Mohammed Garboua, deny any racial motives behind the Sunday attack, which ignited protests and clashes in the city, against the backdrop of plans to sell a building in the traditionally Arab neighborhood of Ajami to a Jewish yeshiva.
Tel Aviv Magistrate s Court Judge Or Mammon said evidence presented to him likely links the suspect to the assault, but added that their denial of racial motivation sounds plausible.