A former editor of Israel’s largest-circulation daily newspaper received a two- month suspended sentence for using illegal wiretaps as part of a circulation war. A Tel Aviv court also ordered Moshe Vardi to pay a fine of about $1,100 for “turning a blind eye” to private investigators’ bugging the phones of Vardi’s employees at Yediot Achronot.
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