A lawyer received offers that men were interested in getting to know her against her will, including to her professional email address, from an anonymous dating website to which she did not register and even requested to remove herself from.
The Court held that sending the messages does not amount to defamation. Israeli law stipulates that defamation is a publication that may humiliate a person, among other things, due to his actions or qualities which may be attributed to him, or harm his profession. The publication may be oral or written and must be from a person who is not the person who was harmed and the publication must reach him. Here, the website is anonymous and the identifying details may only be revealed if the person agrees to it. Because the lawyer did not agree to the proposals sent to her, her details were not revealed, her job was not harmed. Therefore the publication doe not amount to defamation.