Kiryat Yam city officials have filed a complaint with police against the Internet search engine Google.  Officials say one of Google’s programs, Google Earth, gives viewers false information that hurts the city’s image. 

Those who see Kiryat Yam on Google Earth are told that the city was built on the ruins of an Arab town from which innocent civilians were expelled.  In fact, officials said, the city was built by Holocaust survivors on land that was completely barren and had not been settled in the past.  The false information was placed as part of a deliberate attempt to hurt the city’s interests, they said.