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A public company which shares were suspended from trading on TASE due to non-publication of financial statements petitioned at the last minute against the transfer of its shares to the maintenance list after the three months of suspension had lapsed.  The company sought a short delay contending that the statements would be published soon, but […]

Two families purchased apartments from a developer.  After the developer ran into financial difficulties and a receiver was appointed to complete the project, they sought to cancel the purchase agreement and forfeit the Sale Law guarantees in their possession due to a significant delay in delivery and given the fact that they can no longer […]

A client whose investment account with a foreign company was blocked, served a statement of claim to the Israeli company through which the account was opened.  The Israeli company contended that it is not authorized to receive service of process on behalf of the foreign company since it only provides technical support. The Court held […]

A store chain owner suspected that one of the franchisees secretly became a shareholder in a competing store chain using his brother as a “straw man”.  Following these suspicions, the chain terminated the franchise agreements for two branches and for the third branch demanded to activate a “forced separation” mechanism due to “breach of trust.” […]

An employee was involved in a car accident on her way home after finishing her workday, but cellular location data, the actual travel route, and the significant time gap between leaving work and the occurrence of the accident indicated that the location and time did not align with the accepted route from the workplace to […]

Wage deductions under the component of a “deposit” were made from the salary of a brazilian football player who played for the Maccabi Haifa football club during his final months of employment.  The said deductions were intended to secure the payment of the player’s future expenses, such as debts for traffic fines, housing bills, and […]

A ship that arrived at the Ashdod port to load fuel was moored to a marine terminal operated by the Israel Electric Corporation.  Despite the winds at the location strengthening significantly, the ship was left moored to the terminal for several hours.  As a result of the continuous load, the mooring cables snapped and disconnected, […]

A middleman entered into an agreement with parties to an acquisition transaction, under which it was intended to receive brokerage fees.  After the deal fell through, some of the involved parties established a new company that ultimately executed the deal and made the acquisition, without paying the brokerage fees. The Court held that the middleman […]

A fuel supplier from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, supplied fuel in Turkey and Malta to a Russian-registered cargo ship and sought to enforce a maritime lien against the vessel in Haifa in respect of a debt.  Meanwhile, the ship was sold to another owner who repudiated the fuel supplier’s maritime lien. The Court dismissed the […]

Natan Zehavi, a Radio Le-Lo Hafsaka broadcaster provided broadcasting services to the radio station as an independent contractor.  Following a controversial on-air statement, the station suspended the broadcaster without pay and refused to reinstate him without receiving new financial guarantees on his part.  However, the station refrained from formally terminating the agreement, thereby keeping his […]

Purchasers entered into a transaction to acquire real estate for the establishment of a gas station based on a presented building permit, but in practice the seller agreed with the authorities to postpone a required environmental soil survey without disclosing this upon the execution of the transaction, resulting in construction delays and the purchasers bearing […]

Foreign corporations were sued for damage caused to Israeli consumers due to a restrictive arrangement to which they were parties.  Within this framework, they coordinated prices, quantities and bids in the manufacturing of a component integrated into hard drives. The Court held that the Israeli Court is the proper forum to adjudicate the lawsuit.  To […]

In July, 2026, an amendment to the Israeli Annual Leave Law was legislated, adding the Memorial Day of a first-degree relative (parent, child, spouse, or sibling) to the list of statutory optional leave days. Accordingly, an employee is entitled to take this optional leave day out of their annual leave quota on the memorial day […]

Landlords notified the tenants of the termination of the lease and prevented them from exercising an option, contending that they intended to sell the apartment.  In practice, the apartment was not sold but was rented to others at higher rents, and the tenants were forced to rent another apartment at a higher price. The Court […]

A party to a joint venture demanded an accounting from his partner, claiming entitlement to 20% of the profits.  The partner refused to disclose the documents, arguing that no binding agreement had been signed between them. The Court accepted the claim and held that a special relationship existed between the parties, establishing a right to […]

A senior employee who was terminated from a company demanded to receive 20% of its shares, claiming that according to the employment agreement, he is entitled to 5% of the shares of its subsidiary, which was not actually established, because the value of the employing company is four times the value of the subsidiary. The […]

A subcontractor who entered into an agreement to perform finishing works abandoned the site and terminated the agreement before the payment date arrived (current +30), because the main contractor delayed payments of approved accounts and even notified that it did not intend to pay. The Court accepted the subcontractor’s claim and held that the agreement […]

A manpower agency provided employees to a company operating a nursing home.  The nursing home ran into financial difficulties, ceased operations, and owed money to the manpower agency, who demanded them also from a person who was the shareholders of the holding company of the company managing the hotel and the director of the operating […]

A company engaged in consulting and exercising rights demanded to receive legal fees from a client after about a decade, contending that it referred it to legal representation that led to a reduction in lease fees vis-à-vis the Tel Aviv Municipality. The Court rejected the claim and held that the agreement had been abandoned by […]

The heirs of a person who purchased a small part of a plot claimed ownership of its remainder by virtue of an oral agreement, while a later purchaser bought this part, paid full consideration and recorded it in the Land Registry. The Court dismissed the claim and held that the existing recording in the Land […]

A couple invested in a startup for distributing online courses.  The project developers presented them with a representation that the technological system was almost completely ready, of high quality, and that significant resources had been invested in it.  The agreement between the parties stated that the system is purchased in its current condition (“AS IS”).  […]

A company engaged in coordinating and managing the collection of development levies for local authorities and water corporations entered into an agreement with a partner, which included broad non-compete and confidentiality clauses.  After the partnership between the parties ended, the partner began working in the same field through another company. The Court held that the […]

In a marriage contract entered into between a Muslim couple it was stated that only Sharia law would apply to their marriage, and not the Israeli Property Relations Law.  The marriage contract was signed by both spouses, but the implication of applying Sharia law instead of the Property Relations Law was not explained to them […]

A co-owner of an apartment, who inherited half of his deceased father’s apartment, demanded that his half-sister pay him usage fees after she moved into the apartment with her partner and two children without his consent, even though her mother (the owner of the second half of the rights in the apartment) permitted her to […]