The wife of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won a libel lawsuit against a Jerusalem newspaper. A Jerusalem court ordered the weekly Kol Ha’Ir to pay Sara Netanyahu some $19,000 in compensation, in addition to legal expenses. Netanyahu sued the paper over items that appeared in its gossip column.
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