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Apr. 1, 2021 5:15 PM
An unusual encounter took place last month at the High Court of Justice. On one side were three justices. On the other were individuals whose names remain under gag. On the agenda: access to classified archival documents in the possession of the Shin Bet, in an attempt to understand why the security service opposes their publication. The documents don’t touch on Israel’s nuclear program or the early־warning blunder in the Yom Kippur War – two issues to which the public is almost automatically denied access. They touch on the assassination of Dr. Rezso Kasztner (aka Rudolf Israel Kastner) in March 1957.