In its current wording, since the Extradition Law has been amended several times in recent years, to the point that my colleague Justice M. Cheshin likened it to "a price sticker on products in the supermarket in times of inflation" (Criminal Appeal 7569/00 Yagodiev v. State of Israel (hereinafter - the Yagudayev case [13]), at p. 542) - The law grants special protection to those who were Israeli citizens and residents at the time of the offense. He may be extradited only for the purpose of prosecution (section 1a(a)(1) of the law). Granting an extradition request is conditional on the requesting state's undertaking that if convicted and sentenced to prison, the detainee will be returned to serve his sentence in Israel (section 1a(a)(2)). At this point, the extradition laws are in line with the provisions of the Law for Imposing a Prison Sentence in the Prisoner's State of Citizenship, 5757-1996, which stipulates in section 10(a1) that the Israeli court, subject to the existence of a stipulation in this spirit in the agreement between the two countries, will be entitled to shorten the period of imprisonment imposed abroad and to set it at the maximum period of imprisonment prescribed in Israel's penal law for the offense for which the sentence was imposed.
A necessary element in recognizing a person who has already been extradited is the existence of prima facie evidence of his guilt. The law states, in section 9(a), that it must be shown that "the wanted person was legally obligated to commit an extradition offense
in the requesting country, or because there is sufficient evidence to prosecute him for such an offense in Israel..." This court reiterated that the hearing of the extradition request is not a hearing of the guilt or innocence of the wanted person. There is no room for examining the evidentiary body on its merits, determining the weight of the evidence, or examining the extent to which it is consistent with one another. All that is examined is "...if the evidence has a basis for an indictment" (Criminal Appeal 308/75 Paschowitz v. State of Israel (hereinafter - the Paschowitz case [14]), at p. 460; See also Criminal Appeal 318/79 Engel v. State of Israel [15], at p. 105).