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Amendment to Israel R&D Law – The Establishment of the National Authority for Technological Innovation

On January 1, 2016, a National Authority for Technological Innovation (the “Authority”) was established in Israel, replacing the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Economy (the “OCS”). The purpose of the OCS, and now the Authority, is to encourage innovation and to create new job opportunities in Israel, through the funding of innovative research and development projects.The new ...

Israeli Privacy Regime - The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review

In this this exclusive Israel chapter in the second edition (2015) of The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review, Haim Ravia and Dotan Hammer review legal trends and developments in the Israeli data protection, privacy and cyber regime in 2015, presenting and discussing topics such as recent high-profile data breaches in Israel, employee privacy in Israel, public and private ...

Israel: Settlement in Class Action Suit on Patient Privacy

The District Court in Haifa, Israel, approved a settlement in a consumer class action suit filed against Clalit Health Services (Israel’s largest healthcare provider) and Dikla insurance company, alleging that the two organizations violated the privacy of Clalit patients. The suit alleged that Clalit provided patients' contact information to Dikla for the purpose of marketing Dikla’s long term care collective ...

Israelis Arrested for Allegedly Pirating Television Content Online

The elite investigations unit of the Israeli National Police, Lahav 433, detained six Israelis suspected of allegedly operating piracy websites that distributed television content offered through Israeli cable and satellite television operators “Yes” and “Hot”, to tens of thousands of foreign Internet users, for a subscription fee of US $30 per month. The individuals arrested are suspected of violating the ...

Israelis Convicted of Distributing Sex Video on WhatsApp

The Magistrate court (court of lowest instance) in Kfar-Saba (a town located Israel's center district) declined the request of two defendants to refrain from convicting them for distributing through WhatsApp video recordings of them having sex with the complainant (a minor).
 
The suspects in the case admitted to the offenses under the Protection of Privacy Law and Defamation Law. The indictment ...

Haim Ravia and Dotan Hammer author Israel chapter in The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review

Law.co.il's Haim Ravia (Senior Partner at Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz) and Dotan Hammer (Senior Associate at Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz) have recently authored the exclusive Israel chapter in the second edition of The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review.

In their chapter, Haim and Dotan review legal trends and developments in the Israeli data protection, ...

Israeli Supreme Court Determines What Is Considered Unlawful Intrusion to Computers

The Israeli Computers Law criminalizes intrusion into computer material. This week, for the first time, the Israeli Supreme Court addressed the question of what exactly constitutes intrusion into computer material. The Supreme Court held that the term “intrusion” must be interpreted broadly. Unlawful intrusion should not be limited only to conduct that circumvents technological barriers (“a house without a lock ...

Israeli Authorities Investigate Deletion of Unfavorable Credit Report Data from CRA Database

The Israeli National Police and the Ministry of Justice have jointly announced the conclusion of an investigation named “clean slate”, which found that unfavorable financial information about individuals was allegedly deleted from the database of an Israeli credit reporting agency, BDI, a company licensed to provide credit reporting services pursuant to the Israeli Credit Data Services Law.
 
The investigation, ...
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