The court increased the sentence of an Israeli man from nine months of community service to two years in prison for his role in a 2021 assault on two Arab men, saying racist violence 'harms the delicate fabric of relations between the different sectors in the country'
Yaniv Shabtai participated in a racially motivated attack in Bat Yam and was convicted in a plea bargain, under which he was sentenced to nine months of community service. Judges Stein, Kabub and Kasher accepted the prosecutor's petition: "The offenses harm the delicate fabric between the sectors in the country"