A person has drafted a handwritten document which was written after his duly made will, in which it was recorded that he intends to divide his property among his children as a will instead of his previous and detailed one that was signed in the presence of witnesses.
The Court rejected the probate motion in lieu of the existing will because the document cannot be considered a will, as it is at most a future and vague statement of intent. Israeli law defines that provisions of a will from which it cannot be understood o whom it bequeathed or what the will bequeathes and which meaning is not clear are void. Here, the deceased executed an early and detailed will in the presence of witnesses as required, while in the later document he only stated that the property would be divided among his children but did not specify what the property was and how it would be divided without a signature and witnesses. Therefore, the later document cannot be probated as a will which replaces the existing will.