The Magistrate's Court today meted eight months public service and six months' suspended jail for Olga Sokolovsky, 44, of Haifa for impersonating a doctor and receiving patients fraudulently under aggravated circumstances.

In addition, she was sentenced to pay NIS 24,000 in compensation to six women she cared for - NIS 4,000 each. Sokolovski was convicted in a plea deal more than a year ago.