Description The father of an Israeli woman killed last year in a hit-and-run accident in Tel Aviv visited France to ask for the suspects to be extradited to Israel. Physiotherapy student Lee Zeitouni, 29 years old, was killed in September after being hit by a car carrying two men in their 30s. The suspects have admitted to immediately boarding a flight for Paris to avoid capture and to have been in the car at the time of the accident. The woman's father, Itzik Zeitouni, urged France's substantial Jewish community to support his campaign, saying, "Our aim is to ask those who caused Lee's death, and the community in which they live, to shoulder the responsibility of their act. We turn to you so that an end can be put to this injustice. Their behaviour has to be absolutely reprimanded, they must be excluded, banished. They must be tried in Israel and punished according to Israeli laws and customs." Because Israel doesn't have a formal extradition treaty with France, the two men cannot be forced to return to Israel to stand trial. The French first lady, Carla Bruni, recently wrote to the family, saying that justice would be served. The French authorities have also said that, if asked, they will arrest and try the two men, but as yet, no formal request has been received from the Israeli authorities.
