Israel's defense minister is leaning toward recommending the erasure of Elor Azaria's criminal record, the former IDF soldier convicted of manslaughter for neutralizing an already-wounded Palestinian attacker in Hebron in 2016, according to an early, unconfirmed report on Channel 14. Azaria served 9 months of an 18-month sentence.
According to an early report from Israel's Channel 14, Defense Minister Israel Katz is leaning toward recommending the erasure of the criminal record of former IDF soldier Elor Azaria. Azaria was convicted of manslaughter in 2016 for shooting a neutralized Palestinian attacker in Hebron. He served nine months of an 18-month sentence. The report, which the desk marks as a single-source, unconfirmed development, does not specify when the minister might make a formal decision or submit a recommendation. The report was first published Monday evening. No official confirmation from the Defense Ministry was available at time of writing.
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