Israeli Court cannot pierce the veil of a non-Israeli company

A business published a Yom Kippur greeting on social media using a photograph taken in Congo and published for the first time by the photographer in Israel. The Court accepted the photographer’s claim for copyright infringement. Under Israeli law, a “photographic work” may be deemed a protected “artistic work” when the creator showed its originality […]

A company was required to place a guarantee as part of a lawsuit it filed, even though it owns assets worth dozens of times more than the amount of the guarantee. The Court accepted the motion to deposit a guarantee due to company’s failure to meet the threshold required to establish financial stability. When a […]

A lessee gave checks to the attorney of the apartment owner, an elderly woman under nursing care, for the rent, without specifying the name of the payee. A month prior the end of the lease, the lessee located a potential tenant to replace him under the agreement terms, but when he reached to get the […]

A company ordered a video production service but did not pay for it. The shareholder was demanded to pay the debt personally after it became clear that he filed a motion to liquidate the company in an expedited process of where he declared that the company has no debts, knowingly this is not the case. […]