Israel Radio and Reporter to Pay Former Bar Head NIS 600,000
Translated & summarized from Kipa by baba
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- Galei Tzahal and Hadas Steif must pay Efi Naveh NIS 600,000.
- The compensation is for accessing Naveh's phone data.
- The data led to a "sex for appointment" scandal investigation.
- Steif was not prosecuted for obtaining the information.
- The criminal case against Naveh and a judge was closed.
A Jerusalem court has ordered Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) and its former criminal reporter, Hadas Steif, to pay approximately NIS 600,000 (about $165,000 USD) in compensation to Efi Naveh, the former head of the Israel Bar Association. The ruling, issued by Judge Oren Schwartz, comes seven and a half years after the affair first broke.
The case began in late 2018 when Steif received information extracted from Naveh's old mobile phones. This information, including personal correspondence, led to the exposure of a "sex for appointment" scandal and a criminal investigation into Naveh and Judge Eti Kraif, concerning alleged links between personal relationships and judicial appointments.
It was later revealed that Naveh's phones had been illegally accessed and the data copied. Steif provided the devices and materials to the police, seeking immunity from prosecution. Ultimately, she was not indicted for her role in obtaining the information.
While the criminal case against Naveh and Kraif was eventually closed by prosecutors, Naveh filed a civil lawsuit seeking NIS 7 million, alleging his phones were unlawfully breached and private information was misused. The court's decision to award Naveh damages marks the conclusion of one of Israel's lengthy legal and media sagas.
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