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Judge Malchi Rehabilitated

By MOSHE RON

General Secretary, Federation of
Israel Journalists

10—Friday, March 29, 1968

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

TEL AVIV—I still remember the trial with much interest. The I its verdict. It found Judge Malchi
day, when the minister of justice, Israeli press declared several ! not guilty. The whole press in Jericho-Sodom Road Is Mapped by Engineers
Jacob Shimshon Shapira, came to times it is time to put an end to Israel accepted in its leaders the
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• the route that will cross from Is-
Sokolow House to a secret session this trial, but it • is not allowed to ; verdict with great satisfaction and
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rael into occupied former Jor-
with the chief editors of the Israeli criticize the trial procedure, which : expressed its deep regret about
JERUSALEM — Israeli author- danian territory. Jericho, on the
press and asked them not to pub- I it held sub-judice.
the suffering and troubles which ities have approved the construc- north shore of the Dead Sea, is
lish the case of the Tel Aviv
Many personalities were mixed were caused to the j u d g e. It tion of a road linking Sodom with a West Bank town. Sodom, site
District Judge Eliezer Malchi who • up with the matter during the trial, seemed as if the whole population Jericho. It was reported here Tues-
of a potash plant on the Dead
is the son of a rich, Zionist func- though they had no relation to it. of Israel was relieved and praised day that engineers employed by Sea's south shore, is in Israeli ter-
tionary in Tel Aviv (the late There was great excitement. There' the just judgment. the labor ministry were surveying ritory.
Shlomo Salzman), who was among were in a n y arguments heard
the founders of the Tel Aviv daily against the judicial counsellor of
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Haboker. ' the government, M. Ben-Zeev, and
Judge Malchi, also a lecturer at the commanders of the police, be-
the Tel Aviv University, was ac- cause they had taken seriously
cused by a woman lawyer, Jona the accusations of Mrs. Sofer and
Soler, of receiving a bribe of 3,000 had started the trial. There was
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Israeli pounds. It was a great sur- the impression that they were
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prise and a terrific blow for the afraid, that if they will refrain *
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chief editors of the Israeli press. from doing so, it will be rumored *
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the publication of this case could and Moshe Cohen, presided over *
deal a heavy blow to the judiciary the trial. Malchi was defended by
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in Israel. Minister Shapira ex- two famous lawyers — Mendel *
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of a judge could undermine the prosecutors were Ezra Hadoza *
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prestige of the judges, who had and Gabriel Bach, together with *
up till now been highly esteemed 1VIosche Ben-Zeev. There were
by the whole population
many dramatic conflicts between *
The trial of Judge Malchi lasted both sides. At last the court issued
one year and ten months. There
were 214 sessions in the Court of
Jerusalem. Dozens of witnesses
were heard. Much dirt was thrown
on Judge Malchi during the trial.
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Delicate matters about personal
relations between the Judge and
REPAIR AND
Mrs. Soifer were brought up. A
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part of the fortune which Malchi
conducted by
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(approximately 200,000 Is r a e l i
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pounds) were "eaten up" by this
trial. Nearly each court session
Rose Mash, Accompanist
Concert, Night Club and TV Star
turned into hell for 1VIalchi.. The
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