In Criminal Appeal Authority 1024/21 Anonymous v. State of Israel, paragraph 9 [Nevo] (March 17, 2021) it was held that:
"The distribution of nude photos of a person without his consent constitutes an infringement of his privacy, his privacy, the whitewashing of his face and his public humiliation, as well as an infringement of his basic rights to privacy, his dignity and his good name [...] Against this background, section 3(a)(5a) of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law was enacted, which defines sexual harassment as the publication of a humiliating or degrading photograph that focuses on the sexuality of the victim of the offense. This legislation expresses the recognition that the virtual space constitutes a fertile ground for sexual abuse, which enables the distribution of offensive images in an unlimited circulation, which is capable of causing continuous and irreversible harm to the victim [...] In light of the severe harm to the victim that accompanies the commission of the offense, and taking into account that the possibility of locating the offender is often very limited, in my view, a strict punitive policy is necessary that will deter potential offenders from committing their acts."
In a criminal appeal, Sentence 27720-12-19 State of Israel v. De Levine, para. 9 [Nevo] (January 29, 2020) it was held regarding the importance of eradicating the phenomenon of sexual offenses in cyberspace as follows:
"Admittedly, in a large number of cases, the offenses remain in the 'virtual space,' and a large part of the offenders do not seek contact in the 'real world,' and remain ostensibly protected behind the anonymity that the Internet allows, and are far away from the computer screen, as if there is a distance and in the absence of direct physical contact, in order to distance them, to protect themselves, to cleanse them of the serious acts they commit under the auspices of the network, and to leave them as "normative people", at least in their own eyes; And as if on the other side of the screen is a character who is not flesh and blood, who has no name, no family, no personality, and who cannot be harmed. However, the dangers that lurk for minors online, the psychological harms caused to them as a result of committing serious sexual offenses against them, while penetrating their private space by the simplest means, inside their home and fortress, while taking advantage of their age, innocence and the stormy complexity that characterizes adolescence in any case - are not virtual at all.