An individual evacuated from his home following the outbreak of the "Swords of Iron" war and accommodated in a hotel was demanded to move to another hotel, for reasons of required renovations while a group of evacuees associated with a hotel employee was allowed to stay.
The Supreme Court rejected the contention of illegal discrimination. The list of discrimination grounds enumerated in the Israeli Prohibition of Discrimination Law (such as discrimination based on race, religion, or gender) is exhaustive. Additionally, the statutory rule prohibiting the setting of irrelevant conditions is merely intended to expose cases where one attempts to hide discrimination enumerated in the exhaustive list of grounds and it does not create new types of discrimination. Here, the hotel preferred to host evacuees associated with a hotel employee and favoring associates is not among the explicit grounds for discrimination in the law. Therefore, there are no grounds for compensation for illegal discrimination.