documentary TV film was made on Meir Tobianski. Be'eri's trial In November 1949 Isser Be'eri was tried and found guilty of manslaughter by the Tel Aviv District Court. The examining magistrate, Eliezer Malchi, who conducted the preliminary inquiry, said there were grounds for arraigning Colonel Be'eri on a murder charge but this would not be done. The civilian court found that, as there was a ceasefire in effect at the time, any information supposedly passed by Tobianski could not have served the Jordanian artillery. Due to his extensive service to the country, Be'eri received a symbolic punishment of one day of prison, "from sunrise to sunset, 30 days after sentencing", before which he was pardoned by the president, Chaim Weizmann. Be'eri reportedly left the trial a broken man and ensconced himself in his home until his fatal heart attack in January 1958. Be'eri's three fellow interrogators, David Kron, Binyamin Gibli and Avraham Kidron, who also had condemned Tobianski as his judges in the afternoon drumhead court-martial, themselves were not charged and tried in court. They reached high military and civilian positions. In his memoir David Kron wrote that despite the official investigation, he was convinced that Tobianski had been guilty and that Be'eri had the full authority to act the way he had. Later Shabtai Teveth placed the fault with Gibli's overbearing ambitions and manipulation, personal traits that led to the Lavon affair. See also List of miscarriage of justice cases Timothy Evans References Further reading Google Books Uri Bar-Joseph Intelligence Intervention in the Politics of Democratic States: The United States Israel and Britain... Penn State Press, by Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, and Eli Landau, Copyright 1 Oct. 1979. 1904 births 1948 deaths 20th-century executions for treason Israeli military personnel Lithuanian Jews Lithuanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Military personnel from Kaunas Executed Israeli people Executed military personnel Controversies in Israel People executed for treason against Israel People executed by Israel by firing squad People who were court-martialed Executed Lithuanian people Royal Engineers officers Lithuanian military personnel British Army personnel of World War II