A dispute between Israel and Switzerland delayed the release of a Mossad agent arrested last month in Switzerland. Israel requested that the agent be deported, but Swiss officials announced that he will be put on trial. Israel’s attorney general, Elyakim Rubinstein, returned to Israel after trying to secure the release of the agent, who was arrested for allegedly trying to bug the Bern apartment of a Lebanese national with suspected ties to Hezbollah.
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