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Criminal Case (Jerusalem) 28759-05-15 State of Israel v. Eran Malka - part 19

January 13, 2026
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Another significant blow was to Fischer's health, which deteriorated mentally and physically.  Prof. Barak testified about the direct impact of the management of the case on the deterioration of Fischer's medical condition in both areas.  He lost interest in life and reached a state of dysfunction as a result of the stress, anxiety, shame and humiliation he was subjected to as a result of the procedure.  His family, especially his children, suffered greatly, and the family almost fell apart.  The "radioactivity" stuck not only to Fischer but also to his family members, who also encountered ostracism and boycotts.  His children experienced a severe trauma that still goes with them.  Even some of his nuclear family distanced themselves from him.  The impact of these scars on Fischer and his family is enormous and cannot be quantified.  The damage will continue to accompany them for the rest of their lives.

  1. Since these extensive damages were caused as a direct result of Fisher's investigation and accusation of these offenses Did not perform The defense argues that the relevance of the matter is not at all on the level of mitigation of the sentence for ordinary reasons rooted in the harm of the criminal proceeding itself to the defendant's personal life and professional and social status (in respect of which the case law referred by the accuser's counsel regarding the limited weight of this consideration in white-collar offenses is relevant), but on the level of Ion or Deduction The Punishment Suffered by Fischer for Offenses that he did not perform. This punishment was imposed on him as a result of a lengthy and lengthy legal proceeding – the vast majority of which turned out to be baseless – which the state unlawfully used against him and in the midst of a long list of wrongful acts, failures and omissions on the part of the investigative and prosecution authorities.

According to Attorney Perry, the extreme gap between the original indictment and the indictment in which Fisher was convicted is not only quantitative (the number of cases and the number of offenses) but also qualitative.  In the framework of the current indictment, not a single one of the seven offenses of bribery, nine offenses of fraud and breach of trust, four offenses of fraudulent receipt under aggravated circumstances, five offenses of money laundering, and three tax offenses – which constituted the bulk of the count and structure of the original indictment (in addition to 12 offenses of obstruction of justice, six offenses of disclosure in breach of duty, four offenses of receiving assets obtained by crime,  and one offense of perjury).  The original indictment was replete with vicious and ugly stories, including making up files for customers, renting Mazda cars in order to track the customer and get him to pay money to Fisher, trading in information, and more.  In contrast to all of these, Fisher was eventually convicted of three offenses of obstruction (which are misdemeanor offenses) and one offense of attempted bribery (which is a derivative offense and not a finished offense like the bribery offenses for which he was initially charged), and the nature of the acts and the circumstances of their execution also changed substantially.  It is therefore a matter of"Deconstruction" of the original indictment and the almost complete collapse of the evidentiary and legal infrastructure that underpinned the original serious charges.  This was also the opinion of the Supreme Court, which recently noted in the matter of this proceeding:Because between the beginning of the case and the end of the case, there is a large and disturbing gap, to say the least" (Other Criminal Appeal 30277-11-25 Malka v. Drucker, paragraph 16 (24.11.2025)).  Moreover, the offense of attempted bribery in which Fisher was convicted belongs to the 'Alon Hassan Affair', which was investigated in the first incarnation of the investigation from 2014 and for which a letter of suspicion was sent to Fisher in early 2015, before the investigation and the second wave of arrests at the end of April 2015, following which he was arrested until the end of the proceedings, and they are the ones that led to his 'elimination' and the destruction of his life forever.

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