Five Israeli Arabs were convicted by a Haifa court of having contact with a member of Hezbollah and conveying information to a hostile group with the aim of harming state security. The five admitted to the charges as part of a plea bargain in which prosecutors agreed to drop charges that they had helped plan attacks with Hezbollah.
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