Two Arabs, brothers and members of a prominent Israeli Arab family, were found guilty today after a trial here on espionage charges for “collecting information on behalf of the Jordanian intelligence.” They were sentenced to four and a half years’ imprisonment. The men are the sons of Djamil Khouri, who was a magistrate in Palestine under the British Mandatory power.
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