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{{Further|Israel-New Zealand relations|Foreign espionage in New Zealand}}

In July 2004, New Zealand imposed [[International sanctions|diplomatic sanctions]] on Israel over an [[2004 Israel–New Zealand passport scandal|incident]] in which two Australia-based Israelis, Uriel Kelman and Eli Cara, who were allegedly working for Mossad, attempted to fraudulently obtain [[New Zealand passport]]s by claiming the identity of a severely disabled man. Israeli Foreign Minister [[Silvan Shalom]] later apologized to New Zealand for their actions. New Zealand cancelled several other passports believed to have been obtained by Israeli agents.<ref name="NZ_Herald_10332767">{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332767 |title=Israeli government apologises to New Zealand|date=June 26, 2005|agency=[[NZPA]]|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|access-date=October 26, 2011}}</ref> Both Kelman and Cara served half of their six-month sentences and, upon release, were [[deportation|deported]] to Israel. Two others, an Israeli, Ze'ev Barkan, and a New Zealander, David Reznick, are believed to have been the third and fourth men involved in the passport affair but they both managed to leave New Zealand before being apprehended.<ref name="NZ_Herald_3596863">{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/israeli-spy-case/news/article.cfm?c_id=606&objectid=3596863|title=At home with the Mossad men|author=Hallel, Amir|date=October 2, 2004|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|access-date=October 26, 2011}}</ref>

 

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