// Her defense team, which claims she was pressured into changing her testimony, earlier this month presented the court with text messages sent between the Israelis which it says show the alleged rape was planned in advance. //
// Israeli journalists and social media users on Monday decried the heroes’ welcome extended to a group of teenagers who were released by Cypriot police after a British tourist recanted her claim that she was gang raped by them.
In the arrivals hall, the teens, all wearing white yarmulkes, loudly celebrated their release by opening champagne bottles, chanting “Am Yisrael Chai” (the people of Israel lives) along with “the Brit is a ***.”
“So what we have here is a group of teenage boys, who it turns out are not rapists, just the type of boys who would engage in group sex with a drunk girl, film it without her permission and then send it around to their friends. There’s no doubt, they are obviously good boys,” columnist Hen Artzi-Sror said. //