(9) Criminal Appeal 6916/06 Atias v. State of Israel (29.10.2007) - A district manager in the Jerusalem Municipality's Building Supervision Department, who was convicted of two offenses of taking bribes and two offenses of fraud and breach of trust. The District Court sentenced him to Seven months in prison In practice, after determining that there was a direct causal connection between the bribery and the actions related to the position of the appellant, who at that time was one of the senior officials in the Jerusalem Municipality. The appeal against the severity of the sentence was rejected.
(10) Criminal Appeal 1224/07 Baldav v. State of Israel (10.2.2010) - Member of the Hadera Municipal Council, Acting Mayor and his salaried deputy. He was convicted of two offenses of bribery in two separate incidents in relation to two bidders. These offenses were committed by the appellant when he himself was an elected official who was obligated to be honest with the public. In one of the incidents, a police agent was involved who approached the appellant and presented him with the demand for bribes. The District Court sentenced the appellant Five months in prison with community service. On the severity side, his involvement in two separate incidents of bribery in order to increase his political power was noted, in a manner that reflects a recurring criminal line of action, as opposed to a one-time stumble. On the side of the voice, mention was made of the interest that the appellant had in acting for the benefit of the city, as well as the nature of the police agent's action with a motive to incriminate the appellant. In addition, weight was given to the appellant's health condition. The Supreme Court did not see fit to intervene in the sentence, noting that it is possible that if it were not for the health condition, there would have been room for a real deterioration given that "The standard of punishment for bribery offenses is actual imprisonment, and consideration of the imprisonment is usually applied not by converting the means of punishment from actual imprisonment to a rehabilitative punishment, but rather by reducing the degree of punishment within the framework of imprisonment" (ibid., at para. 90).