The popular
British tabloid The Daily Mail on Thursday defended a decision to publish photos in the US of one of
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's
election rivals entering the mansion of disgraced
American financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2016.
Ehud Barak's lawyers wrote to the British company's US-based website on Wednesday demanding it remove Tuesday's story and pay "substantial damages to vindicate his reputation and compensate him".
The newspaper's US website ran photos of four young women separately entering Epstein's
New York residence around the same time as Barak himself went in.