Reporter; faces jail
NZPA-Reuter Tel Aviv The “Washington Star” correspondent who will apparently be arrested on his return .to Israel, was yesterday flying back to Tel Aviv, a spokesman for. his newspaper said. The correspondent, David Halevy, named the head of the Israeli Security Services in a story.; and Israel Television reported that he. would be arrested on his return. :
The “Washington Star” story said the head of the security: services quit his job because the Israeli Prime Minister'(Mr Begin) stopped his probing of Jewish ultra.:nationalists over the car bomb .attacks against three Palestinian mayors on the occupied West Bank in June. The story was denied by the Prime Minister’s office. It went to the extent of putting the security, chief on ?'the radio to deny that Mr Begin had curbed his investigation.
' 5 - The Israeli AttomeyGreneral has ordered an investigation to determine whether Mr Hal evy broke censorship laws with, his story naming the security head, whose identity is never disclosed.
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