The Tel Aviv District Court convicted Efi Peles, former treasurer of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, with breach of trust as part of a plea bargain, sentencing him to six months of community service, one year suspended sentence a fine of NIS 10,000.
This is the first verdict in the case in which former deputy foreign minister Faina Kirschenbaum (Yisrael Beytenu) and other senior officials were charged with bribery.