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Participating in a tender process can be a strategic and profitable step for businesses, but it requires strict compliance with the tender's guidelines and rules and compliance with the requirements of Israeli law.
An employee contends that another employee at her workplace sexually harassed her and that he, as well as manager of the employer badgered her due to her whistleblowing and demands compensation also from the employer even though the harassment was not committed with his employer’s approval or knowledge.
On November 21, 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against the Prime Minister of Israel at that time, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the former Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Galant, ludicrous warrants accusing the State of Israel, which was the victim of an attempted genocide by the Hamas terror organization on October 07 , 2023, in the same offense committed against it - similar to issuing an arrest warrant against a rape victim for assault of the rapist because she dared to resist and scratched the rapist - but also orders that prove the obvious: those who, instead of listening to their legal advisor and acting according to him instructions, prefer to attack him and the Court, may find themselves accused of things they never did.
The Government of Panama has approved a significant new regulation to its Panama Qualified Investor Visa (also known as the Golden Visa) through Decree 193, effective from October 15th, 2024.
A Filipino foreign worker in Israel filed a lawsuit claiming that he worked as a caretaker for a person who had a severe stroke for 16 years until the demise of his employer and he was employed 7 days a week, without receiving vacation or rest days.
In 1970, a man transferred the shares in two companies to his children, but in practice he continued to manage the companies and withdraw the full dividends from them, which led to a divorce dispute that began in 2000 and ended after the demise of both spouses only by a Supreme Court of Israel ruling at the end of October, 2024, which stated that the shares actually belonged to the man and not to his children.
It is a well-known fact that the digital currency market is a fertile ground for scams.
In October 2021, a number of Israeli databases were hacked, the best known of which was the database of the gay dating app, Atraf (the Israeli equivalent of Grindr, which took its place when it collapsed).
Unlike other governance systems where, as the residents of Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1945) discovered, everyone is equal but.
What is the status of an intra-family settlement made orally many years ago in which it was agreed that real estate would be registered under the name of a family member who is not really the owner?
As a startup nation, the issue of employee stock options plan (ESOP) in high-tech companies is not strange to the Israeli corporate world.
Employee options are an important tool for recruiting and rewarding employees as well as retention of employees - the company provides a cheap salary replacement for a company that prefers to use its resources for growth (and in a growth company, the options will be worth much more than cash payment) and at the same time, it is a very powerful tool for retention of employees and creating personal commitment by identifying with the interests of the company (the employee will lose the options or part thereof if he leaves and he has an interest in working better because he benefits from the company's growth).
A former employee, a VP of services with over 30 years of expertise in the wireless sector, started a business after being terminated. The employer demanded that the non-compete clause of the employment agreement be enforced and that the former employee be prevented from contacting its customers and competing with it, until a verdict is […]
A man was intended to receive child support payments from his ex-wife who lives in Russia, but the payments were delayed or rejected by the bank due to restrictions arising from international sanctions imposed on Russia due to the war in Ukraine. The Court held that the bank’s refusal to transfer the funds due to […]
Tenants who received apartments in great delay sought to sue also another company in the group of the contracting company on the grounds that its shareholders h jointly managed them, used the same offices and the same accounting services. The Court dismissed the claim against the other company. A company is a separate legal entity […]