Long gone are the days when Israel asserted her jurisdiction over all Jews and refused to extradite her citizens for foreign prosecution. While many other countries have since adopted the Israeli stance and ban their citizens’ extradition to foreign prosecutors, Israel has gone backward.
The Israeli Supreme Court ordered the extradition of Alexander Pertzov to anti-Semitic Ukraine, where he is charged with killing a cop twelve years ago. The extradition came as a surprise to Ukraine. Typically for that corrupt country, local police extorted fake confessions from two thugs who pointed at Pertzov as the killer. Why him? Simple: because he was in Israel at the time. The approach is common with Ukrainian police: make a false accusation against a dead or permanently absent person, and close the case. Both thugs have since renounced their confessions.
Alexander had since volunteered to serve in the IDF and lives a model citizen’s life. For an Israeli accused of killing a cop, detention in a Ukrainian jail comes very close to being a death sentence.
Ukraine does not extradite its citizens.
