The family of teenager Danny Katz who was killed by five Israeli Arabs in Haifa in 1983 petitioned the High Court on Tuesday to resicnd a decision to reduce the sentence of his murderers from 45 to 30 years in jail.

In a letter to President Shimon Peres, Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann and the parole department at the Justice of Ministry, attorney Yakov Weinrott called the decision to reduce the sentence "bewildering," and cited the fact that the family was not informed of the decision in advance, the brutality of the committed crime and its nationalistic motivations as reasons not to shorten their jail terms.

In light of the jail term shortening, the convicted men could be released from jail soon.