Following a neighbors dispute, letters of complaint were sent to the neighbor's employer implying that her reports about her working hours were false and that her work manner was not in line with what was expected of her.
The Court held that letters which were sent constitute defamation. Israeli law states that defamation is publication which may humiliate a person in the eyes of others who have been exposed to the content of the words, when their purpose is harming the person's occupation, except cases defended under the law such as telling the truth and acting in good faith. Here, the two letters included defamatory statements describing the neighbor, who is employed as a senior civil servant, in a derogatory and humiliating manner while they were addressed to several parties and their defamatory content was exposed to additional employees. Because the letters included phrases that are not true and were sent in bad faith to many unauthorized parties and without any justification, the neighbors will compensate the neighbor for defamation.