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treating children of diplomatic staff. He traveled twice to Iran to meet his handlers, and met with
Iranian agents in apartments and hotels around the world. He received secret communications equipment for encoding messages between him and his handlers. He maintained contacts with Israelis involved in defense and foreign relations, and worked to put Israeli officials in contact with Iranian intelligence operatives while passing them off as innocuous businessmen. He was identified as a spy by
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due to his criminal record and subsequently extradited to Israel, where he was interrogated and indicted for espionage, aiding the enemy in a time of war, and providing information to the enemy. According to
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and members of the local Jewish community, and received a letter of praise from the
Israeli Foreign Ministry for saving an Israeli security guard's life. In 2016, he requested that the Israeli Health Ministry reinstate his medical license so he could resume his medical career in Israel. The request
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was the largest party in these elections it formed the government and the right-wing Tzomet party remained in the opposition. Segev served as an opposition MK and a member of the
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for forgery and attempted drug smuggling and sentenced to five years imprisonment. In August 2006 an
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