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A business published a Yom Kippur greeting on social media using a photograph taken in Congo and published for the first time by the photographer in Israel. The Court accepted the photographer’s claim for copyright infringement. Under Israeli law, a “photographic work” may be deemed a protected “artistic work” when the creator showed its originality […]

A company was required to place a guarantee as part of a lawsuit it filed, even though it owns assets worth dozens of times more than the amount of the guarantee. The Court accepted the motion to deposit a guarantee due to company’s failure to meet the threshold required to establish financial stability. When a […]

A lessee gave checks to the attorney of the apartment owner, an elderly woman under nursing care, for the rent, without specifying the name of the payee. A month prior the end of the lease, the lessee located a potential tenant to replace him under the agreement terms, but when he reached to get the […]

A company ordered a video production service but did not pay for it. The shareholder was demanded to pay the debt personally after it became clear that he filed a motion to liquidate the company in an expedited process of where he declared that the company has no debts, knowingly this is not the case. […]

A person contended that he executed an agreement under which he invested in the venture because he was misled by the other party, who hid from him the existence of additional investors. However, that person continued to invest money even 3 years after he learned of the existence of additional investors. The Court held that […]

A company that provides services to venues complexes, which also includes seating arrangements for events, recruited customers from a competing company, while during the onboarding process data was extracted from the competing company’s system, including simulations owned by it. The Court accepted the claim and held that the copying of the simulations and their commercial […]

A party to a joint venture sought funds owed to it by virtue of the original agreements between the parties, despite the fact that the parties signed a separation agreement that regulated the end of their business relationships and conducted a final accounting. This was on the grounds that the reason for receiving those funds […]

A contractor was seven months late in delivering an apartment to the purchasers and refused to compensate them for the delay, contending that the delay was due, inter alia, to circumstances beyond its control such as: the Covid19 epidemic and delays on the part of the municipality. The Court accepted the claim and held that […]

A man bequeathed his daughter a property that was subject to legal proceedings for non-payment of a mortgage, because he believed that she would continue to fight for the property after his death. The other successors contended that it was a will that was signed due to a mistake that his daughter is the only […]

A man decided to leave all his money solely to his wife. His son’s creditor contended that this was an attempt to avoid paying the son’s debt, especially when the father was a party to the collection proceedings against the son. The Court rejected the request. Israeli law grants an interested party to challenge the […]

In the addendum to a contract for the sale of an apartment, it was stipulated that the parking lots built by the company that sold the apartment shall be attached to the purchaser’s apartment by formal registration only, in exchange for a reduction in the price of the apartment. The Court held that the purchaser […]

A woman was accused by her neighbor in front of the residents of the condominium for stealing money, while she served as the head of the house committee, without indicating that a complaint filed by him to the police on the subject was closed due to lack of guilt. The Court accepted the claim and […]

A lessee unilaterally offset the cost of installing a central air conditioning system from its rent, contrary to the provisions of the lease agreement that prohibits this. As a result, the lessee was demanded to vacate the leased property. The Court accepted the eviction claim and held that the lessee breached the lease agreement and […]

A potential tenant did not act with sufficient diligence to enter into a lease agreement with the landlord and thus, in practice, prevented the fulfilment of the condition precedent in the agreement between it and the current tenant. The Court accepted the claim due to consummation of the agreement in bad faith. An agreement with […]

A municipality recorded a person as the owner of his deceased mother’s property despite the absence of a probate order while stating that he has the most affinities to the property. When the city tax debts were not paid, the municipality-imposed a lien on his bank account. The Court rejected the claim for damage due […]

A lawyer received offers that men were interested in getting to know her against her will, including to her professional email address, from an anonymous dating website to which she did not register and even requested to remove herself from. The Court held that sending the messages does not amount to defamation. Israeli law stipulates […]

A person who invested in a public company received insider information from the company’s CEO and used the information to reduce his losses in the company’s IPO. The Court convicted that person based on his admission of use of insider information, while reducing his sentence because the use was made for the purpose of reducing […]

Two parties to a real estate dispute signed a memorandum of understanding in preparation for a settlement agreement. The Supreme Court found that the contract is binding as the cumulative requirements of intent and specificity were met. Parties’ intent to form a binding contract which can be concluded from the existence of two main elements: […]

On February 28, 2024, a decree was officially published under which the VAT rate in Israel will increased from 17% to 18%. The decree will take effect on 01.01.2025.

A lessor entered into an agreement with a condition precedent for which no fulfilment date was stipulated. The lessor discovered that the other party had thwarted the fulfillment of the agreement and this before a reasonable time for the fulfilment of the condition precedent had passed. The Court found that the agreement had been breached […]

An employee demanded from his employer rights arising from his work for it, despite a partnership agreement signed between the parties before starting his work. The Labor Court accepted the employee’s contention because in practice the employee was not a partner in the partnership that managed the business in which he was employed. The existence […]

A lease agreement set that the leased house in a good condition but during the lease, for circumstance not related to the lessees, the house burned to the ground and the lessor demanded that the lessees pay for the difference between the insurance proceeds and the value of the house. The Court rejected the claim […]

A person has drafted a handwritten document which was written after his duly made will, in which it was recorded that he intends to divide his property among his children as a will instead of his previous and detailed one that was signed in the presence of witnesses. The Court rejected the probate motion in […]

After differences of opinion emerged between three shareholders in a company who also serve as directors of the company, two adopted a resolution according to which the company would file a lawsuit against the third, despite the founders agreement which stated that all resolutions should be made unanimously. The Court held that the lawsuit should […]