High Court releases names of Israeli brothers indicted for selling AI-generated info. to Iran

Meir Nahum, one of two brothers who were indicted for conducting espionage on behalf of Iranian agents.

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Following a Walla request, a High Court of Justice judge permitted the publication of the names of two brothers who were indicted for conducting espionage on behalf of Iranian agents.

The brothers, Meir and Yosef Nahum, residents of Beit Shemesh and Beitar Illit, were charged last month with transferring information to Iranians in exchange for tens of thousands of shekels. Much of the information was false and AI-generated, including claims of an imminent attack against Iran.

Justice Alex Stein rejected an appeal filed by the brothers’ defense attorney, Adv. Ariel Atari, against the publication of the defendants’ names.

Atari argued that publication would cause psychological harm to Yosef Nahum and could potentially endanger him, as well as Meir Nahum, the main defendant in the case.

“Imposing a publication ban on the name of a defendant after an indictment has been filed is an exception among exceptions, reserved for extreme cases in which publication may, with a high degree of probability, lead to very severe harm,” Stein wrote, noting that he was not convinced that this was the case here.

The two brothers were charged last month with transferring mostly false, AI-generated information to Iranians in exchange for tens of thousands of shekels.

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