Israel Accused of Spying on the Negotiations with Iran
Lesson Brief
NRG
On March 24th, NRG reported on the Wall Street Journal's publication of an interview with American officials claiming that Israel spied on America, obtaining information about the negotiations with Iran. Israel denied the claims and Minister of Foreign Affairs Lieberman stated that the information intercepted in conversations between Israel and French representatives in the talks ,was not obtained by way of spying on the United States. France's participation in the talks has been to present a hard line against details of the forming agreement as the deadline of the deal, March 31st, gets closer.
In this set, watch out for the word סוד - "secret" because it is masculine but has a plural feminine ending: סודות. Also the words באופן לא ישיר and בדרך עקיפה are synonyms for "indirectly" or "in a roundabout way".
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- to leave them in the dark
- להותיר אותם בחשיכה, מותיר
- to present a hard line
- להציג קו נוקשה, מציג
- involved in the details
- מעורה בפרטים
- these false claims
- טענות השווא האלו
- complaint
- תלונה
- to disclose the information
- למסור את המידע, מוסר
- to contain, consist of information
- להכיל מידע, מכיל
- to say the least
- בלשון המעטה
- to claim further
- לטעון עוד, טוען עוד
- close contact
- קשר הדוק