The Yediot Aharonot newspaper and its reporter Sima Kadmon have been found guilty of libel in a Tel Aviv court and ordered to pay the Zionist activist organization Im Tirtzu 105,000 shekels.
The newspaper had accused Im Tirtzu of sending a letter -- in reaction to a TV program on terrorists in Israeli jails -- as if it were coming from a leftist source in order to provoke public outrage that would advance the agenda of Im Tirtzu.
Im Tirtzu means "If you will it," a slogan coined by Theodore Herzl in his advocacy during the late 19th century for a Jewish state.