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A resident of Rishon Lezion is accused of harassing Adv. Einat Misad-Canaan over the years "obsessively", amid his claims that he was not adequately represented. attorney

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Yoav Itiel

Friday, 03 December 2021, 20:55

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Shimon Halfon, a 54-year-old resident of Rishon Lezion, was charged in the Krayot Magistrate's Court with harassing Adv. Anat Masad-Canaan, the national public defender. As the District Public Defender, he obtained her husband's cell phone number and also called him several times despite his pleas to cease, and even physically arrived at the office of the establishment of Canaan-Canaan.

On November 14, the harassment reached a new peak: to the astonishment of the Canaanites, Halfon arrived late in the evening at their home in Nofit in the north, approached the housing unit next to the house where their daughter lives, and asked her where her parents lived. The daughter, who did not know who it was, directed him to the house, where - according to the indictment - he knocked on the couple's door, and when he answered - he repeated his request that the public defender examine his claims while trying to enter the house and try to prevent the door from closing. Halfon refused to leave the place until the husband of the establishment of Canaan informed him that he would have to call the police, and finally left while threatening to demonstrate outside the house, and placed legal materials inside the house despite the couple's pleas.

Masad-Canaan's husband testified that the next day, around 08:00, when he left the house with their child, Halfon approached him once more and took his hand.

According to the indictment, Halfon does not deny what was attributed to him, and explained that Len was on a bench on the street near the defense attorney's home because he did not have public transportation to leave the settlement at night.

Police claim on the other hand that he could have left the place with the first bus of 05:50.

The next day he was arrested.

The indictment attributes to him offenses such as phone harassment, mere assault and criminal trespassing.

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Harassment that lasts for years.

Adv. Mossad-Canaan (Photo: Government Press Office)

According to the police prosecution, Halfon has been "obsessive and compulsive" towards the Canaanite establishment for several years, against the background of his claims that he was not adequately represented by the public defender. Halfon has a rich criminal record, which includes 11 convictions for sexual offenses, threats, assault, disorderly conduct, insulting a public official, attempted assault of a police officer and more. He has served several prison terms, and several indictments are pending against him in the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court for multiple violations of a supervision order.

To this day, Halfon will be represented by 16 defense attorneys for the public defender, but given whoever complained against him, in this case the public defense refuses to represent him and the president of the Haifa District Court, Judge Ron Shapira, released her from her duty to represent him.

Halfon, for his part, is unable to fund a private attorney.

Advocate Tami Ullman, chair of the Haifa District Committee of the Bar Association, agreed to the court's request and referred him to a Haifa lawyer who does not work for the Public Defender's Office to represent him, but Halfon is not interested.

Instead, he named one of the country's top lawyers as someone he wanted to represent at the state's expense, according to an old clause described by the Supreme Court as "an archaic relic left on a book and may have been repealed in light of the Public Defender's Law."

In the meantime, it is becoming difficult to find other lawyers who will be willing to represent him at the rates set in the regulations.

Without representation, the proceedings are delayed

Shimon Halfon remains unrepresented, and in the meantime he even wants to refer the case to a court in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.

"I feel that I am being persecuted," he told Judge Yuval Wasserkrog in the Krayot Magistrate's Court, who decided to extend his detention until the end of the criminal proceedings against him.

Halfon appealed to the Haifa District Court, but without representation, meanwhile the proceedings are all delayed.

The Public Defender's Office stated in response that "due to a material conflict of interest in the circumstances of the case and also due to an extreme lack of cooperation between Mr. Halfon and defense attorneys representing him on behalf of the Public Defender's Office, the Public Defender's was released in several proceedings, including the present case."

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