Before I discuss all of them, I will further note that the extradition laws are not fixed in a vacuum. They fit into the overall fabric of legislation in Israel. The manner in which they are interpreted is influenced by basic principles of law in general, and by the purpose of legislation that is tangential to the issue of extradition (see the words of Justice Barak in the High Court of Justice case 3261/93, supra [17], at p. 285).
Cooperation in the fight against crime
- The first and most central of the purposes of extradition law is the creation of an effective instrument for cooperation between-national in the fight against crime, especially transnational crime. Insist on this President Barak In Parashat Sheinbein [44], p. 639:
"This purpose is to create a legal instrument for international cooperation in the fight against crime... A tool for providing assistance to the judicial authorities of a requesting state, as part of the international community's fight against crime."
In the Straw case [39], at p. 495, Justice Matza added:
"At the forefront of the interests that stand against the right to non-extradition is the interest of the State of Israel - which is a common interest of all civilized countries - in the existence of a joint international struggle to eradicate crime. The conclusion of extradition treaties gives expression to the mutual desire of the contracting countries to create a legal and practical infrastructure that will enable cooperation between them... The need for sharing
Activity between the countries but grew stronger over the years. The increase in cross-border crime, the establishment of sophisticated criminal frameworks based on cooperation between criminals from different countries, and the prevalent phenomenon of citizens relocating to other countries, and after committing offenses in them, flee back to their country of nationality, all of these require increasing cooperation between all civilized countries."
And Justice Bach also held: