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Shaham also ordered the PMO to pay Haaretz and Hatzlaha legal expenses of 10,000 shekels ($3,000) each.
In his ruling, Shaham criticized the PMO for its refusal to provide the schedules, saying that it was in the public interest. The amount of time Netanyahu devotes to the legal proceedings against him “is a matter in which a rousing and active public debate is being conducted,” said Shaham. “Even assuming that it is not possible to know how much of all the prime minister’s meetings with his lawyers dealt with his trial, the public interest in releasing the information remains in force.”