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The police searched a person’s computer and found recovery core for a Bitcoin wallet which were than transferred to the US authorities. After the US authorities used the information to seize that person’s bitcoins, the man sought that the seizure of the coins be voided. The Court rejected the person’s motion to void the seizure […]

The sole shareholder and director of a company ordered flight tickets in the name of the company despite knowing that the company was in financial distress and would be unable to pay its debts. The Court held that the shareholder was liable for the company debt. Generally, a company is a separate legal entity from […]

A bidder with a criminal record relating to a violation of labor laws was selected as the winner of a tender in contrary to the threshold requirement in the tender. The Court accepted the petition and canceled the bidder’s win due to non-compliance with the threshold conditions and a violation to the principle of equality. […]

A man who was informed by the car dealer that his application for a loan for the purpose of purchasing a car had been denied, was surprised to learn that the lender had provided a loan in his favor and transferred the loan money to the car dealer, based on forged documents and a video […]

Vehicle importers underpaid tax due to a lack of clarity in the regulation regarding the determination of the green score for plug-in vehicles imported from the USA, as determined in the Ministry of Transportation’s procedure. The Court held that the importers are to pay the missing tax.  A taxpayer must pay true tax even if […]

An apartment owner sought to forfeit the bank guarantee given to her by the tenant when the tenant withdrew from the lease a week before she moved in, contending that the agreement was not signed but only negotiations took place and drafts were exchanged between the parties. The Court dismissed the tenant’s claim to declare […]

A tenders committee chose two bidders as the winners of the tender even though the bank guarantee they submitted did not match the updated wording required in the framework of the clarification process. A bidder in the tender demanded that the decision of the tenders committee be revoked and to declare it as the winner […]

A CFO of a discount store chain, who was fired from his job, demanded that six companies included in the chain, for which he performed bookkeeping and financial management work, be recognized as his employers. The Labor Court rejected the employee’s claim against the six companies of the chain group and held that the mere […]

An employer undertook in the employment agreement to provide a manager a management incentive that was limited to a ceiling of ILS 6,000 per month or ILS 72,000 per year, but in practice it paid commissions in a higher amount. Upon termination of the manager’s employment, the employer refused to pay commission differentials for transactions […]

A person who received the consideration for his car by means of checks was surprised to discover that they originated in a checkbook that had reached the grantor of the check due to a mistake in the mail and that the signature on such was forged. The Court held that the checks are invalid.  A […]

A developer contracted a university researcher to improve the services he was working on to identify the carriers of the Covid-19 pandemic.  The developer contended that the researcher had stolen the invention, while the researcher contended that the information was in the public domain because it was included in a patent application. The Court held […]

A local authority imposed foreclosures on accounts of a businessman due to erroneous fines that remain unpaid, even though he contacted it several times after receiving the fines and before the foreclosures were imposed. The Court accepted the lawsuit of the businessman for defamation. Defamation is something which publication is liable to: humiliate a person […]

A grandson claimed to own an apartment, contended to have been given to him as a gift by his grandmother while she was still alive, in contrast to her will, in which she bequeathed the apartment to her daughter. The Court dismissed the claim because of unconscionability. Unconscionability is defined as an engagement that was […]

A player in the Hapoel Ra’anana soccer team signed an employment agreement for three seasons that included an option for the employer to terminate the contract at the end of each of the seasons. At the end of the first season, the team informed the player of the termination of the contract between the parties. […]

Buyers of a property in which severe dampness defects were discovered contended that the sellers did not make full and proper disclosure of the condition of the property prior to the sale, while the sellers contended that they made sufficient disclosure by saying that the property had been repaired in the past and referred the […]

A company engaged in the provision of laundry services sought to register a trademark for the purpose of its activity and discovered that there was already an identical registered trademark which was similarly deceptive.  After the company and the owners of the registered mark reached a coexistence agreement that allows for the registration of the […]

An association which goal is to protect the environment published on Facebook that the owner of the majority of the rights in the Leviathan reservoir caused environmental pollution on Israel’s coast in order to increase its profits. The publication was shared on many social groups by an environmental activist. The Court accepted the claim for […]

An employee, whose work included manual labor, was terminated following deterioration in his medical condition which prevented him from continuing to work in any job that involved physical effort. The employer was unable to find a job suitable for the employee’s skills that did not involve physical effort. The Court rejected the employee’s contention and […]

A woman whose medical condition was rapidly deteriorating made an oral will. Shortly after making the will the woman passed away. The Court held that the oral will is valid. A person who thinks that he is dying may make an oral will, whether he is truly on his deathbed or he truly sees himself […]

An apartment owner in a condominium repaired a defect in the sealing of the roof of the condominium during the summer months, as a preventive measure, in view of her desire to sell the apartment without active leaks in the future.  The apartment owner demanded that the condominium representative indemnify her for the money she […]

After an employer installed security cameras with the aim of preventing incidents of sexual harassment and documenting and eradicating such incidents, one of the employees resigned, contending harassment and worsening of her work conditions due to the placement of the cameras near her position, and requested to recognize the resignation as an act of dismissal. […]

While crossing the Suez Canal, a Chinese ship drifted until it sank and “settled” on the bottom of the canal. Attempts to repair the engine on site failed until at the end of the day, with the help of several tugboats, the ship was pulled out and refloat.   Following the “incident”, the shipowner declared a […]

In a rental agreement for the operation of a playground, it was stipulated that starting from the third year, the rent would effectively increase. The agreement was executed shortly prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. Two months after its outbreak it was amended and, with the exception of the changes that were added, ratified. However, due […]

A party to an arbitration agreement moved the Court for interim relief, despite the fact that no arbitration proceedings actually took place. The Supreme Court held that temporary relief may be granted even in the absence of an actual arbitration proceeding. Israeli Arbitration Law grants the Court the authority to grant a variety of remedies, […]