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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040715/wl_afp/nzealand_israel_040715174121"The New Zealand government views the act carried out by the Israeli intelligence agents as not only utterly unacceptable but also a breach of New Zealand sovereignty and international law," she said."[...]The two men, Uriel Zoshe Kelman and Eli Cara, were arrested on March 23 after an undercover police operation and pleaded guilty last month to charges including fraudulently attempting to obtain a New Zealand passport. Auckland High Court Justice Judith Potter Thursday sentenced the two men to six months in jail. She ordered them both to pay 50,000 NZ dollars (32,800 US dollars) to the Cerebral Palsy Society after they used the name of a disabled man in their bid to get a false passport.[...]Clark said it was not the first time Israel had sought fraudulently to obtain passports from another country. "Israeli agents caught in an unsuccessful assassination attempt in Jordan in 1997 were found to be carrying fraudulent Canadian passports," she said. "While we regret the need for it, New Zealand has no option but to take the actions that it has in response to a deliberate breach of its sovereignty," she added. Israeli officials made no comment about the allegations that the pair were members of the Mossad overseas intelligence agency.