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Class Action (Tel Aviv) 11278-10-19 Yehoshua Klein v. Oil Refineries Ltd. - part 53

January 13, 2026
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The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert:   Of course.

Adv. Mr. D.  Or Chen:         What?

The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert:   I think that this sentence should be made more stringent.  The environmental link between smoking and cancer has been proven.  The causal link between Knox and cancer is on almost non-existent legs, and between Socks and cancer there is actually perhaps one article in the literature that has ever suggested this.  No, it's just that these are materials that don't enter into the discussionTake a look at the document of IARC who investigated the issue.  These substances are not condemned as dangerous substances for cancer.  They really don't, compared to if 2.5 which definitely is.  So we are not arguing about where it is proven and seen and known, yes, Pi M 2.5 is relevant but Nox and Saxes are not, and dioceses have a debate here until further notice regarding the relevance. 

Adv. Mr. D.  Or Chen:         Professor, when you talk about a causal relationship, confirm to me that you are talking about a scientific causal relationship of 90-95 percent.  What you just said is that there is no connection, because you are examining it in a medical and scientific causal connection that as far as you are concerned it should be 90-95 percent, is that true?

The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert:   Causal connection It has a lot of definitions.  One of the conditions is the percentage of confidence

Adv. Mr. D.  Or Chen:         Percentage?

The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert:   Confidence percentage, 95

Adv. Mr. D.  Or Chen:         Yes

The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert:   But it is only one condition out of about six-Seven

Adv. Mr. D.  Or Chen:         Yes

The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert:   Bradford Hill And so on.  I'm sure this has been discussed here enough times. 

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which was ruled in relation to the opinion of Prof. Shai Lin in the divers' case

  1. In connection with what was ruled in the Haifa District Court regarding the thesis he presented, Lin  testified in this proceeding as follows:

Q:        This is exactly what Judge Bakishon, the Honorable Justice Shapira, said so, Professor Lin is using his reply The qualitative method and the qualitative model that is not fixed in the scientific literature This is a model that assumes, as a basic assumption, the existence of a causal relationship between the exposure or cause and the onset of the disease.  Therefore, the only possible use of this model is when a number of risk factors are known, each of which has been proven to be a known risk factor for the same disease.  Therefore, the model can only be relevant after a causal link has already been proven, it cannot be relevant to examine the existence of an alleged causal link between a certain exposure and morbidity, and therefore not useful in the above case.  So what he said to you, what he ruled about me, about your opinion, the judge,

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