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The Defender

$19.99

The tragic story of the late Attorney Dr. David Weiner, one of the leading Public Defenders in Israel. In the pinnacle of his career, being the only Public Defender ever to acquit a convicted murder felon (Amos Baranes) in a sensational retrial, David Weiner found himself drawn into a nightmarish trial of the murder of Justice Adi Azar, being forced to testify against his client – a member of the Israeli Mafia – and to break his attorney-client privilege. Humiliated, his life threatened, and with his professional reputation tainted forever, Weiner decides to end his life in what became the most sensational suicide in to rock Israel in recent years.

Israel

Duration: 60 Minutes

Directed and produced by: Yitzhak Rubin, Teknews