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When "Circassian Dreyfus" was accused of espionage and treason, one man wholeheartedly believed in his innocence - until victory
Zvi Hadar served in the military prosecutor's office for years until he reached the top of the pyramid.
After retiring, he was asked to defend Officer Izzat Nafsu, was convinced he was a victim of a plot, and went into fierce struggle with the system in which Plant included a 2,000-page appeal and appeal to the Supreme Court - until his release from prison.
This month he died at the age of 92
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Eli Ashkenazi
Saturday, 07 August 2021, 13:00
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During his decades of work as a lawyer in the military prosecutor's office, the military defense and the private market, the lawyer Dr. Zvi Hadar met many people, but one significant case stands out in his professional life: his fight for the defense of IDF officer Izzat Nafsu Acquitted of these charges.
For Hadar, the struggle to prove Nafso's innocence was uncompromising.
In the Israel of the 1980s, in which the defense establishment was given almost blind faith, Hadar - who had only been the chief military prosecutor only seven years earlier - launched a campaign to acquit the Circassian officer, who cried out for a plot against him.
"Hadar wholeheartedly believed that the man was innocent and a victim of a Dreyfus-style plot," wrote journalist Nahum Barnea in 1987, when the Nafsu affair was allowed to be published.
A week and a half ago, Hadar passed away, and Nafsu came from Kfar Kama to the Savyon cemetery to accompany him on his final journey.
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"Rolled out" to study law following a member of his military service.
Hadar (Photo: Courtesy of the family)
Hadar was born in Tel Aviv in 1929 to Mania and Nachman Zellinger.
He studied at the Herzliya Gymnasium and when he was 15 years old he enlisted in the Haganah, in which he served in the ISIS (Field Forces). L.
During the war he fought in the Givati Brigade, during the break he went to an officers' course and after that he was assigned as a platoon commander in the same brigade, which fought in the hard battles on the southern front to stop the Egyptian army. For nine years, he recounted that in one of the battles, a division of Egyptian soldiers in firing rifles stormed in the direction of the force he commanded.
The path of a jurist is clear
Although attracted to the field of biology, Hadar "rolled" after his release from the army to study law at the Hebrew University, following a member of the army whose father was a lawyer. Among the lecturers were Judge Shimon Agranat, Prof. Gad Tadesky, Prof. Gueltiro Procaccia and Prof. Yitzhak-Hans Klinghoffer. After graduating, he interned in the Supreme Court with Judge Agranat, who a few years later was appointed Supreme President.
On the eve of the Sinai War, in October 1956, he returned to the army and joined the military prosecutor's office. After the occupation of Sinai and the Gaza Strip, he was appointed a military prosecutor in the Gaza Strip, and was later appointed head of the training section of the Military Prosecutor's Office, where he initiated the writing of legal reviews of military court rulings. Until then, there were no concise reviews of the laws issued by the Military Court of Appeals.
He was later appointed Chief Military Advocate, and later served as Southern District Attorney and Armored Forces.
He then went to London to study international law, and wrote a doctoral dissertation on the protection of private property in time of war.
Hadar and his wife at Izat Nafsu's wedding (Photo: Official website, courtesy of Izat Nafsu)
In 1968, after Shamgar finished his job as Chief Military Advocate, it was decided that Hadar would replace him, and he was promoted to the rank of Colonel (the rank of Brigadier General entered the IDF shortly afterwards - which is also the rank received by military lawyers after Hadar to this day). .
The territory controlled by Israel increased considerably after the Six Day War and Israel established a military government over the Sinai region, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the Golan Heights, and military missions along the borders increased, as did the fight against terrorism.
Accordingly, the tasks of the military prosecutor's office also increased greatly and the number of members of the unit increased.
In his remarks in memory of Hadar, the incumbent General, Sharon Afek, he noted the significant increase in the unit's areas of practice, the increase in the scope of legal proceedings and the structural and organizational changes that Hadar initiated and implemented. Extensive academic knowledge and brilliant litigation skills, "he wrote.
A war for truth and justice
In 1973, after five years in the post
of lieutenant colonel
, Hadar retired from military service. He opened a private office and also dealt extensively in this field in the field of military law.
the son was suspected of espionage and treason. he was arrested shortly after leaving the army, and for a whole month since his arrest did not legally represented. initially his family did not even know where he had disappeared, and of course the provision gag complete and was unknown to the Israeli public.
"my family understood deer "He is the number one expert in Israeli military law and they asked him to represent me," Nafsu told Walla! He said he did not represent an officer who betrayed. "I passed the test - and the rest is history," said Nafsu.He fought for me and went with me to the end. "
Once he was convinced of the righteousness of his way, he went with him to the end. Nafsu and Hadar (Photo: Official website, courtesy of Izzat Nafsu)
As someone who came from the heart of the military justice system and who headed it, it was not easy for Hadar. Journalist Zohara Ron, who in those years served as a soldier in Prison 4, wrote this week that she remembers Hadar's visits to Nafsu in prison. "He stood by his side when it was unpopular, and fought for the truth and justice and what he believed in, even when it said to go against the system to which he belonged and came from it and was even one of its leaders."
"Nowadays, when I understand what it means for a security guard like him to stand up to the system and explicitly say that the GSS lied, I appreciate it even more. "It was even before the Line 300 affair, and who would have thought that our pure IDF and GSS could lie, and even in court and in a commission of inquiry,"
Nafso
added.
till the end. At that time he did not take other portfolios and lost a lot of money because he represented me. He worked on it non-stop. It took a lot of strength and time from him. "
"He did not seek publicity either, since this case had been confidential for more than seven years," he explained.
"He did not receive a real payment, did not obtain publicity and did not seek fame. He asked for justice, and that is in front of a strong security system to which he belonged, in front of the prosecution, in front of the GSS.
I know that people from the same system contacted him and asked him to burn a little. "
"Like a second father"
Hadar did not give up even after Nafsu was convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison. He stayed by his side and appealed the conviction, with the appeal spreading over 2,000 pages bound in 12 volumes. He raised 150 reservations, and presented some of them sharply. However, in a brief ruling, the panel of judges of the military tribunal rejected the appeal and even criticized Hadar in light of the severity of his claims against the first instance court that heard the case and the comparison he made between Nafsu and Dreyfus. That, too, did not make him let go. "The dismissal of the appeal with a wave of the hand did not break him," Nafsu said.
The dramatic breakthrough was when Judge Shamgar gave Nafsu leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. At the same time, the Line 300 affair exploded in those days, following which the GSS 'dubious conduct in the Sowing Committee was exposed, which included false testimony and version coordination. This conduct matched everything they had claimed over the years.
"So, when there was an opportunity for the first time to appeal the decision of a military court before the Supreme Court, Zvi offered to add another lawyer," says Nafsu.
"He said that maybe he is no longer objective and does not see certain things. I said that I agree with his offer, provided he stays with me, and so it was. On his recommendation, Adv. Aharon Kemar joined my representation."
His wife and daughters were also invited to Nafsu's release celebration.
Hadar and his family (Photo: Courtesy of the family)
The prosecution then stated before the Supreme Court that the confessions wiped from Nafsu in his investigations had no legal value, the verdict against him was overturned and as part of a plea deal he was convicted of a much lesser offense. He was subsequently sentenced to two years in prison - and was immediately released from prison, having already served nearly seven and a half years in prison.
Hadar, his wife, the doctor Prof. Herzliya Hadar, and their daughters, Ruthi and Tirza, were also invited to the big celebration, which took place in the village of Kama, with the participation of thousands of members of the Circassian village and from all the surrounding Jewish settlements. Hadar was later declared the darling of the Circassian community. Nafsu says that for him "Zvi was a second father. He held me and did not let me break. For seven and a half years I kept the hope thanks to him."
About 15 years ago, Hadar retired from the world of law and began devoting time to his hobbies, especially in the fields of art and science, and even published a book with his poems. A week and a half ago he passed away and he is 92. He was buried on the birthday of his wife, Herzliya, "his eternal love," according to their daughter, Tirza.
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