Deputy defense minister dismisses spying report

Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) denies Israel spied on the European hotels where nuclear negotiations were held, as the Wall Street Journal reported earlier Wednesday.

Ben-Dahan flatly rejected the report in an interview with Israel Radio, though he later conceded that if such a covert operation had been launched by Israel’s intelligence services, the deputy defense minister would not have been informed.

Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan, February 3, 2014 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan, February 3, 2014 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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