BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

plaintiffs may collect on his rulings. This is not the kind of
judge that Arafat or the Israeli peacemakers want around, so
the hit squad of the peacemakers is called into action.
April ' 03 - A plan to murder Azar along the exact lines of the
Rabin assassination is hatched. The Yigal Amir patsy is Rafi
Nekhmani, serving life in prison for murder. He is released
on an illegal furlough and escapes. No manhunt is ordered
for his return. Instead Nekhmani stays, "in numerous hotels
while he staked out nine judges," in six different cities until
Azar was chosen as his target. Further, Nekhmani was not
located by the police for two years.
July, 04. Enter Avinoam Hajbi, the Margalit Har Shefi of the
Azar murder. He is drawn into the plot against his
understanding. Nekhmani hires him to drive him to Azar's
house three times for ten minutes each. On July 19,
Nekhmani took twenty minutes, returned to the car and gave
him a gun. He ordered Hajbi to drive to a nearby beach and
bury the weapon. Nekhmani explained that, "The plan was to
injure the judge so he could negotiate better conditions for
Yitzhak Tzeziashvilli." Hajbi told Nekhmani that, "The plan
was out of a science fiction movie," and "I didn't know that
Judge Azar was actually killed until I saw it on the news later
that night."
But witnesses to the shooting swore the killer escaped on a
motorcycle, not in a car.
ENTER David Weiner. He is Yitzhak Tzeziashvilli's attorney.
He believes his client was wrongfully imprisoned for murder
and has succeeded once in having an appeal heard. He is
approached with an attractive offer by, possibly, Nekhmani.
Whoever made the offer said he had knowledge of the Azar
murder and would reveal the whereabouts of the murder
weapon if Yitzhak Tzeziashvilli's prison conditions and
sentence were lightened within 48 hours. Weiner informed
attorney-general Menachem Mazuz, and later State
Prosecutor Eran Shendar, of the offer, which was rejected.
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