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Waiters employed at the luxury restaurant “Segev” received their salary from a shared tips pool. In 2019, the restaurant unilaterally decided, without the employees’ consent, to deduct 20% from the tips to fund social benefits and related contributions. The employees objected to the change and even took organizational steps to oppose it. The National Labor […]

A man founded a company with a name that includes his full name. Thereafter, members of his family founded a company with a name that also includes the shared surname and deals in the same areas of activity. However, after decades of activity and an agreement between the parties that the first company would be […]

A parties signed a lease agreement alongside a document entitled ‘Option to Purchase a Property’ which stipulated that the apartment will be sold during the lease period or at the end thereof and the parties will jointly act to finalize a sale contract. In practice, the lessor did not agree to make any changes to […]

A controlling shareholder in a company was added as a party to an arbitration proceeding, even though he is not personally a party to the arbitration agreement, but rather the company. The Supreme Court held that there was no reason to add the controlling shareholder to the arbitration proceeding by virtue of piercing the corporate […]

A husband regularly transferred most of his income to trusts, in which he acted as the protector. The trusts were formally administered by independent trustees but were actually controlled by the husband through letters of wishes enforced by the abuse of his powers as the protector of such trusts. The Court held that the trusts’ […]

A married couple built and managed apartments on land the wife had received as a gift from her father prior to the marriage with the land and apartments recorded on her name only, but the income from these apartments was deposited into a joint bank account. After 23 years the couple divorced and the husband […]

A minority shareholder of a company in the hotel industry demanded that the control holder purchase his shares due to his oppression in 2017 and that the purchase will be at a higher value prior to the Covid-19 epidemic that erupted in 2020 and affected the hotel industry. The Court held that for the purchase […]

An American claimant and a company from the Marshall Islands sued in an Israeli Court and were required to deposit a guarantee for the defendant’s expenses, but after part of the guarantee was used to pay expenses, they did not complete it to the original amount. The court found that the claim should be struck […]

Two parties each held half of a plot of land. After one discovered that approximately 34 square meters of its share had been taken by the other, the parties reached a compromise under which the other would return the taken land, with the location of the returned land to be chosen by it. The area […]

An employer announced that it intends to grant a bonus to employees for past achievements in two installments. The employer refused to grant the second half of the bonus to an employee who announced her resignation, because she would no longer be deemed an employee on the date of the second payment. The Court rejected […]

A car purchaser demanded the cancellation of loan agreements she had taken for the purpose of financing the purchase of a car, after she was coaxed by the car dealer who served as an ‘authorized representative’ of the credit provider to assume obligations to the credit provider under unreasonable transaction terms when the car dealer […]

Settlors of a trust drew up a deed of trust which stipulated that following their demise their house would be transferred to a public trust with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as beneficiary and all in accordance with the trust deed. The deed of trust stipulates the number of trustees who will manage the trust, […]

When the father died without a will, the daughter contended that her parents were separated and did not maintain a joint household in the last years of their lives, and therefore the mother is not entitled to half of his estate and should not be recognized as an heir. The Court found that for purposes […]

People operated a computerized trading platform that enabled investors to trade with it in a contract for differences – a financial instrument which value derives from the price of the underlying asset, as determined by the trading platform itself. The lack of license for the trading platform was not disclosed to the investors, and they […]

A manufacturer agreed in an agreement to deliver an innovative machine but failed to fulfill its obligation. The Court held that the project’s innovation does not exempt the manufacturer from its duty to deliver the product. A best-efforts obligation is essentially behavioral -it includes the duty to act professionally, skillfully, and diligently to achieve the […]

An employee who worked for a company that underwent economic rehabilitation pursuant to an issuance of a stay of proceedings order, was terminated several years later and demanded severance pay for the entire duration of his employment with the company, including before the company’s economic rehabilitation. The Supreme Court held that the employee is not […]

An influencer published posts which included the phone numbers of leaders of the Kaplan protest (protests against the Israeli government) and encouraged her readers to contact those people and purchase various retail products from them, even though those people do not sell products. As a result of the publication, the people were harassed with dozens […]

A bidder received notice of non-winning of the tender and only after nearly two months in which it conducted correspondence with the municipality did it moved the Court seeking to cancel the tender. The Court rejected the petition due to delay and held that an attempt to exhaust the proceedings does not stop the race […]

The Center for the Collection of Fines learnt that a criminal, from whom attempts to collect compensation for the victims and the State failed, is the sole shareholder and director of a company in which favor compensation was awarded by the State. The Court decided to perform a reverse piercing of the corporate veil and […]

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 […]

An employee transitioned from one business to another contacting former clients and utilizing confidential business information obtained during his previous role. The new employer was aware of the confidentiality obligations the employee had undertaken toward his former employer and encouraged his move to compete with that employer directly. The Labor Court held that both the […]

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 general partner took from the partnership “success fees” that were hidden from the limited partners. The limited partners sought to dissolve the partnership on the grounds that although the partnership agreement stipulated that the partner would be entitled to success fees, the partner determined their own rate and hid it from the limited partners. […]