A former editor of Israel’s largest-circulation daily newspaper was convicted of using illegal wiretaps as part of a circulation war. A Tel Aviv court ruled that Moshe Vardi “turned a blind eye” to private investigators’ bugging the phones of Vardi’s employees at Yediot Achronot. Vardi’s news coordinator, Ruth Ben Ari, was also convicted in connection with the wiretaps, which were intended to catch employees giving information to a rival daily, Ma’ariv.
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