Journalist Eitan Oren has been ordered to pay 50,000 shekels to his colleague Nadav HaEtzni as compensation for slandering him in the framework of the original Avishai Raviv story.
HaEtzni had written that TV reporter Oren had staged a television report of a fake swearing-in ceremony of Avishai Raviv's sham right-wing extremist organization named Eyal. Oren responded to these accusations by insisting in many media interviews that HaEtzni had lied in these reports - and the Jerusalem Magistrates Court ruled this week that Oren was guilty of slander. In addition to the fine, Oren must also issue a public apology in a Friday edition of Israel's largest newspaper, Yediot Acharonot, and state that his accusations against HaEtzni were groundless.
Justice Noam Solberg quoted in his ruling the finding of the Shamgar Commission that everyone who was present at the Eyal ceremony had to be aware that the events were staged and faked. The Shamgar Commission is that which investigated, inter alia, GSS agent-provocateur Avishai Raviv's role in the period leading up to the Rabin assassination.
HaEtzni had written that TV reporter Oren had staged a television report of a fake swearing-in ceremony of Avishai Raviv's sham right-wing extremist organization named Eyal. Oren responded to these accusations by insisting in many media interviews that HaEtzni had lied in these reports - and the Jerusalem Magistrates Court ruled this week that Oren was guilty of slander. In addition to the fine, Oren must also issue a public apology in a Friday edition of Israel's largest newspaper, Yediot Acharonot, and state that his accusations against HaEtzni were groundless.
Justice Noam Solberg quoted in his ruling the finding of the Shamgar Commission that everyone who was present at the Eyal ceremony had to be aware that the events were staged and faked. The Shamgar Commission is that which investigated, inter alia, GSS agent-provocateur Avishai Raviv's role in the period leading up to the Rabin assassination.