The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz asked the country’s Supreme Court to reject an appeal by former Cabinet minister Ariel Sharon to overturn a verdict in a libel case against the newspaper. In 1997, an Israeli court ruled that the paper had sufficient evidence to conclude that Sharon misled then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin about his objectives during the 1982 Lebanon War.
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