Afik News 435 19.03.2025

An estate administrator claimed to return to the Estate Fund a real estate property of deceased that was given as a gift during her lifetime, claiming that she never agreed to give the apartment as a gift to the defendants and that the entire gift agreement was fraudulent and was made contrary to the deceased’s […]

A woman with no experience in the capital market who was in financial distress was convicted of using inside information she received from a person with whom she was in contact and who urged her to use the information. The use of the inside information was made numerous times by making active investments that yielded […]

A couple signed a prenuptial agreement according to which if the man passes during the course of their life together and before he has managed to purchase an apartment for investment, his widow will be entitled to inherit his full rights in the apartment he owned prior to the marriage and which was defined in […]

A customer ordered from a company a unique custom-made pergola manufactured abroad. Despite repeated promises by the company manager for a year and four months, the pergola did not reach Israel, and the manager was demanded to repay the advance payment and personally pay damages. The Court accepted the claim and held that the manager’s […]

An article on the new EU legislation for the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA), which applies to anyone operating within the EU, even if they are not physically in Europe. The article was written by attorney Adi Marcus of Afik & Co.

An investor invested in a company based on draft financial statements prepared by an accounting firm. After the company collapsed and was declared insolvent, the investor claimed that the accounting firm was negligent in preparing the financial statements and is responsible for the damage caused to it. The Court held that the accounting firm was […]

A lecturer claimed that parts of her research paper were copied as part of an academic article published by a doctoral student, contending that there is an identity between the subject of the article and the subject of her research work, including findings and conclusions presented as if they were the findings of the doctoral […]

The website politicallycorret.co.il published an article that attributed sexually harassing behavior to a former journalist at the Galei Zahal radio toward female soldiers who worked with him, who complained years after the events occurred. The Court held that the website is protected by the truthful publication defense to defamation. Israeli law defines defamation as something […]

An energy engineering expert who assisted a company in preparing an application for a grant by an international fund for the implementation and development of a project, out of an interest in working on the project, demanded to receive about 80% of the funds received from the fund as part of the project. The Court […]