‘Haaretz’ says columnist fired for receiving funds from Qatar lobbyist

 https://www.jns.org/haaretz-says-columnist-fired-for-receiving-funds-from-qatar-lobbyist/

A columnist for Haaretz was allegedly found to have received hundreds of thousands of dollars that were traced back to a Qatari government lobbyist, the Israeli newspaper reported on Saturday.

The allegations about Alon Pinkas, a political analyst and former consul general of Israel in New York, marked the third time in recent months that one of Haaretz‘s writers has been linked to the “Qatargate” scandal.

In October, top Haaretz journalist Chaim Levinson was dismissed after it became clear he was paid some 200,000 shekels ($63,000) by Einhorn.