Court Orders Journalist and Radio Station to Pay Former Bar Head $165,000
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- Journalist Hadas Steif and Army Radio must pay NIS 600,000 to Efi Noyek.
- The payment is for illegal hacking into Noyek's mobile phones.
- The court found Steif violated privacy and computer laws.
- Evidence obtained from the phones was deemed illegally acquired.
- Noyek is the former head of the Israel Bar Association.
The Central District Court in Lod ruled on Monday that journalist Hadas Steif and the radio station Galai Tzahal (Army Radio) must pay Efi Noyek, the former head of the Israel Bar Association, NIS 600,000 (approximately $165,000) in damages. The court partially accepted Noyek's lawsuit against Steif and the State of Israel.
The lawsuit stemmed from Steif's alleged illegal hacking into Noyek's mobile phones and the subsequent publication of their contents in 2019. The court found that Steif invaded Noyek's privacy and violated computer and wiretapping laws, identifying her as the "initiating and mediating factor" behind the breach of the password-protected devices.
Steif reportedly used the information obtained from Noyek's phones to implicate him in a 2019 bribery case concerning judicial appointments. However, the court deemed this evidence inadmissible because it was acquired illegally. The ruling mandates Steif and Galai Tzahal to compensate Noyek for the privacy violation.
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