However, the Honorable President Barak added and noted, in the case of the High Court of Justice Mizrahi Bank, in paragraph 10 of his judgment:
"A legal personality who is not a human being, such as a corporation that publishes a book or a newspaper, enjoys constitutional freedom of expression. Of course, sometimes the very essence of the right requires that it is granted only to a person. Thus, for example, the provision according to which "a person's liberty shall not be taken and shall not be restricted by imprisonment, detention, or extradition" (section 5) does not apply, by its very nature, to a person who is not a human being. There may, of course, be borderline cases, in which a decision does not arise in our case. ....This, of course, does not prevent a situation in which the scope of the protection (within the framework of the limitation clause) given to a legal personality who is not a person
will be different from the scope of protection given to a person."
(Emphasis added - M.A.C .)
In other words, although the corporation is entitled, in principle, to rights, their scope may change by virtue of being a corporation, and not only because it is not a human being.
At the base, human rights were granted to human beings in order to ensure them fair living conditions in which they could develop, as well as involvement in decision-making processes, without fear of state interference in their lives. Afterwards, social rights (education, health, etc.) developed, which relate to the conditions for human development, and today there is also talk of broader rights such as the right to environmental protection. Of course, a distinction must be made between the basic rights, in which the state is obligated to refrain from infringing them, and the social rights that the state must promote. Rights are related to the vulnerability and vulnerability of the human being vis-à-vis the power of the state. The basis of human rights was the protection of the individual from the abuse of the power of the state, and later the desire to enable human beings to fulfill their destiny. The right to a fair trial was also first given to human beings, to protect them from the power of prosecution when they are facing criminal prosecution, the process in which they are likely to be most severely violated both in their dignity and in their liberty. Nevertheless, human rights were initially applied, at least in part, to corporations, without discussing whether the justifications for granting them apply to non-human beings.