Family
His grandson, Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, has also been controversial in his own right. As lead defense counsel to former Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti, who was convicted of murder in 2002, he compared his client to Moses, because "according to Exodus, he is a freedom fighter."
On December 17, 2009, Shamai Leibowitz pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents to a blogger known as "Recipient A." He was sentenced to 20 months. An exposé by the New York Times on September 5, 2011 revealed that the leaked documents contained transcripts of discussions recorded by wiretap at the Israeli Embassy by the FBI and that the identity of "Recipient A" was Richard Silverstein. Upon release from prison, Leibowitz claimed in his blog that Silverstein made the story up.
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