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Bookish Israeli attorney general faced with critical choice on Sharon.
Byline: Michael Matza
JERUSALEM _ Menachem Mazuz, 48, Israel's bookish attorney general, isn't what you'd call a familiar face.
Low-key, bespectacled and unassuming, his career as a top deputy at the Justice Ministry focused primarily on constitutional-law issues, not headline-grabbing criminal cases. When he was appointed Israel's 11th attorney general in January, even veteran lawyers barely knew his name.
Now he's about to make the most important criminal-prosecution decision in recent Israeli history: whether to indict Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on corruption charges that could force him to resign.
Faced with the most politically explosive decision of his career, Mazuz is expected to be even more cautious and methodical than is his habit, colleagues said.
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