I remember learning that a Jew has the right to return to Israel if (s)he’s suspected of committing a crime to be judged by a jury of Jews. Why did Israel extradite Crazy Eddie?
Your information isn’t correct. What you probably remembering is the Samuel Sheinbein case. Sheinbein fled to Israel after being involved in a murder. Sheinbein had Israeli citizenship through his father, and Israeli law at the time said that Israeli citizens couldn’t be extradited.
Eddie Antar wasn’t an Israeli citizen, so that law didn’t apply.
A Jew has the right to apply for Israeli citizenship, end of story. It has nothing to do with trials by Jews.
But being a citizen of Israel doesn’t necessarily make you exempt from extradition. In some cases countries won’t extradite a citizen if the penalty is something that they themselves don’t agree with, mainly the death penalty, or if the offense is not a crime they recognize as valid (say blasphemy). I don’t think that a fraud charge would prevent him from extradition.
He’s a review of Israeli extradition law. However, this article contains the following quote:
Crazy Eddie served time in the US, IIRC.
ETA - I thought Crazy Eddie had applied for and received Israeli citizenship. If that’s not the case then it’s much easier to extradite, I would imagine.
That’s Israeli law now. It wasn’t law at either the time of the Antar or Sheinbein cases. In fact, the law was changed to that because of the outcry over the Sheinbein case.
ETA: Crazy Eddie was living in Israel with a false name and a forged Brazilian passport, I believe.
Who is Crazy Eddie and what did he do?
He slashed prices all across the Tri-State area.
Because his prices were IN-saaaaaaaaane!
That’s insane!!
For the record, the guy who did those “Crazy Eddie” commercials was NOT Eddie himself. Those commercials were done by a local disc jockey named Jerry Carroll, who worked for years in the New York market as “Doctor Jerry.”
He also did time on talk radio (WOR) as himself, usually as a replacement. He seemed like a nice guy on the radio. I don’t think his career ever recovered from being mistaken for a crook.
Because the Moties yielded to the Empire’s demands.
Ooh, good one!
I knew there was a reason I opened this thread.
:: bowing ::
Thank you. I couldn’t resist. 