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Walla news site CEO Ilan Yeshua recorded Bezeq owner Shaul Elovitch pressing him to tilt the site's coverage in favor of the prime minister and his family, report says The police reportedly have a tape of Israeli telecom mogul Shaul Elovitch pushing for positive coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu on his company's news site, the latest thorn in the prime minister's side as he tried to deflect claims that he offered a quid pro quo for positive news coverage. According to the daily Yedioth Ahronoth Thursday, the CEO of the Walla news site has given the police recordings in which Elovitch,...

Bezeq technician Amos (Amit) Mantin, 31, of Hadera, was shot dead in the center of Baka al-Gharbiya, near Hadera, on Thursday morning by a 15-year-old gunman affiliated with the Aksa Martyrs Brigades. Mantin, who had driven to the town to fix a phone line, was sitting in his parked car when the gunman sneaked up and shot him at point-blank range. Asher Ben-Naim, the Bezeq security guard who accompanied Mantin, pursued the gunman and shot and wounded him. With the aid of locals and troops, he captured the terrorist, who was taken to the Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera where...

An Israeli civilian was killed in a shooting attack Thursday morning in the Baka al-Garbiyeh area, along the northern seam line with the West Bank. The victim, a Bezeq employee, was accompanied by bodyguards in a vehicle in the center of Baka al-Garbiyeh when the gunman approached the vehicle, opened fire and fled, Army Radio reported. The gunman, a Palestinian teen, was wounded and captured by police and Border Police troops who arrived at the scene a short time later. No group has claimed responsibility for the shooting, which took place amidst reports that the militant factions of Hamas, Islamic...