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ISRAELBRIEFS Former Israeli Minister Sentenced to 11 Years
FORMER ISRAELI MINISTER Gonen Segev — who gave sen-
sitive information to Iranian intelligence officials for six years
— received an 11-year prison term as part of a plea bargain with
the Jerusalem District Court, JNS.org reported.

The former minister of energy and infrastructure had a
charge of assisting an enemy in wartime stricken in exchange for
reduced charges concerning security-related offenses.

“The defendant gave the Iranians secret information with
the intention of harming state security,” the charge sheet said.

“Among other things, the information included the location of
security installations, the names of security personnel and more.

The accused also gave the Iranians dozens of pieces of informa-
tion in order to harm state security.”
Segev was extradited to Israel from Equatorial Guinea. He had been
living in Nigeria since serving time in 2007 for drug smuggling.

The official sentencing is set for Feb. 11.

Record Amount Raised by Israel High-Tech
Companies for Sixth Consecutive Year
Israeli high-tech companies recorded a sixth consecutive year
of record growth in 2018, raising $6.47 billion via 623 finan-
cial deals, The Jerusalem Post reported, citing data from IVC
Research Center and ZAG S&W Zysman, Aharoni, Gayer & Co.

The number of deals declined from 661 in 2017, but the
amount of capital raised increased 17 percent from $5.52 billion.

Annual funding has climbed by about 120 percent since 2013.

“Most of the capital was raised by well-established software
companies with annual revenues of up to $10 million in the
verticals of AI [artificial intelligence] and cybersecurity,” said
Marianna Shapira, research director at IVC Research Center.

“The term ‘wealth attracts money’ describes the continued
investment trend in Israel, as in the U.S.”
Six in 10 Israelis Worry About Hacked Elections
A Pew Research Center poll showed that 62 percent of Israelis
surveyed are worried that the country’s upcoming elections
could be tampered by hacking, The Times of Israel reported.

That said, 73 percent said the country can handle a major
cyberattack, the highest among the 26 countries surveyed by
Pew. But 59 percent are concerned hackers could access national
security information, while 67 percent believe an attack could
damage the nation’s infrastructure.

On Jan. 7, Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman said a foreign nation
“intends to intervene” in the April election, but didn’t specify
which one.

Population Growth Slows in Judea and Samaria
Population growth in Judea and Samaria continued a 10-year
decline in 2018, JNS.org reported, citing data from the Council
of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria.

The 2018 population growth was 3 percent in 2018, compared
to 3.4 percent a year earlier and 3.9 percent in 2016. There were
12,964 new residents in 2018, compared to 14,299 in 2017.

Settlement leaders attributed the decline to the government not
building enough new settlement homes. The Jewish growth rate in
Judea and Samaria began dropping in 2009 when Israel agreed to
President Barack Obama’s demand to freeze construction. A year
earlier, population growth reached an all-time high of 5.6 percent.

At the end of 2018, there were 448,672 Jewish residents of
Judea and Samaria. l
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