Shawkat Mohemed Shalabi, an Arab residing in a Jordan village bordering on the Arab triangle area, who went on trial here last week on charges of attempting to obtain “information valuable to the enemy,” was sentenced to a seven-year prison term today in Haifa District Court.
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