The parole board at Rimonim Prison agrees to grant early release to Yonatan Heilo, who has served eight years in prison for killing his rapist.
Heilo will be eligible to leave prison today, according to reports in Hebrew-language media.
The board’s decision to approve Heilo’s request to be paroled comes after state prosecutors last week withdrew their opposition to his early release.
Heilo, who has long fought for early release, was sentenced in 2013 to 20 years in prison for killing the man who repeatedly raped, robbed and blackmailed him in 2010.
He became eligible for early release in 2016, after the Supreme Court cut eight years from his original sentence, and President Reuven Rivlin commuted part of his remaining sentence in November 2017. But state prosecutors opposed Heilo’s release, leading the Israel Prisons Service parole board to reject his request at the time.
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