RELATED:Untangling the Web: Covering Schalit's release, onlineEditorial: An age-old dilemmaEx-Shin Bet chief: Prisoner exchanges are bad for IsraelThe panel also said that Israel should avoid conducting large-scale prisoner swaps for abducted soldiers like the one it carried out in October in exchange for Gilad Schalit in which 1,027 Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel.The Shamgar Committee was established by Barak in July 2008 after the bodies of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were returned to Israel in exchange for terrorist Samir Kuntar, four Hezbollah fighters and the bodies of nearly 200 Lebanese and Palestinians.The government held up publicizing the committee’s recommendations until after a deal for Schalit was reached. If accepted and approved by the security cabinet, the panel’s recommendations will limit the government’s ability to conduct such swaps in the future.In addition to former Supreme Court justice Meir Shamgar, the other two panel members were Tel Aviv University Prof. Asa Kasher and former director-general of the Defense Ministry Amos Yaron.
Panel to recommend end to mass prisoner swaps
Shamgar C’tee expected to submit new proposals to Ehud Barak for handling abducted soldiers.
RELATED:Untangling the Web: Covering Schalit's release, onlineEditorial: An age-old dilemmaEx-Shin Bet chief: Prisoner exchanges are bad for IsraelThe panel also said that Israel should avoid conducting large-scale prisoner swaps for abducted soldiers like the one it carried out in October in exchange for Gilad Schalit in which 1,027 Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel.The Shamgar Committee was established by Barak in July 2008 after the bodies of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were returned to Israel in exchange for terrorist Samir Kuntar, four Hezbollah fighters and the bodies of nearly 200 Lebanese and Palestinians.The government held up publicizing the committee’s recommendations until after a deal for Schalit was reached. If accepted and approved by the security cabinet, the panel’s recommendations will limit the government’s ability to conduct such swaps in the future.In addition to former Supreme Court justice Meir Shamgar, the other two panel members were Tel Aviv University Prof. Asa Kasher and former director-general of the Defense Ministry Amos Yaron.