The Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday issued former judge Osnat Alon-Laufer with a suspended sentence of six months and fined her NIS 10,000.

A panel of three judges convicted Alon-Laufer of hacking, invasion of privacy and harassment.

Alon-Laufer was accused initially of commissioning private detectives to obtain a list of mobile phone calls made by her partner, a senior Prisons Service officer.

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She was also accused of harassing a female Prisons Service officer with whom Alon-Laufer suspected her partner was romantically involved.

Alon-Laufer confessed to the allegations in a plea bargain that waived the initial charges.

Among the charges erased in the plea bargain were conspiracy to commit a crime, obtaining goods by means of a crime, and breaking the privacy protection law.

The judges said in their ruling that the conviction would not have an adverse effect on her employment as lawyer and as a lecturer in tertiary institutions.

Alon-Laufer stepped down from the bench of the Be'er Sheva Family Court six months ago following Attorney General Menachem Mazuz's decision to indict her.