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Israeli convicted and sentenced to prison for selling IDF transceivers on eBay

An Israeli was convicted under the Defense Exports Control Law, for the selling IDF military transceivers on eBay without obtaining the required permit to do so from the Ministry of Defense. This is the first conviction for an offense under the Defense Exports Control Law, enacted eight years ago. The seller, who earned more than $200,000 from the sale of ...

Israel: Online Service for Drafting and Submitting Small Claims

A recently launched Israeli website operated by law partnership Alkabetz Eshel – Tiktaklaw – offers an online service for drafting small claims complaints and submitting them to court. The submission service requires basic information on the nature of the claim and allows the attachment and uploading of additional files as evidence exhibits.

The fee for the service is 190 NIS ...

The Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority Restricts Data Transfers to the U.S.

The judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) which struck-down, earlier this month, the US-EU Safe Harbor program, now directly affects Israel: the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority (ILITA) at the Ministry of Justice has published a statement clarifying that the US-EU Safe Harbor can no longer be relied on as a legal basis under ...

The Israeli Ministry of Justice is (Once Again) Revisiting the Best Evidence Rule

The Israeli Ministry of Justice has published a request for comments on the possibility of amending the Israeli Evidence Ordinance with respect to the validity of the “Best Evidence Rule”. This longstanding rule of evidence law applies when a litigant seeks to admit a document into evidence, for the purpose of proving its content, rather than its existence. The rule ...

Tel Aviv District Court Holds: Booking.com is subject to Israeli Courts

An international company engaged in online business must litigate at the venue of its customers and not vice versa – according to a recent decision delivered by the Tel Aviv District Court, in an application for class action certification against the Dutch online hotel reservation service Booking.com.
 
The class representative (named plaintiff), David Huta, alleged that Booking.com, by operating ...

Israeli Ministry of Finance Publishes a Draft Circular on Information Security Risk Management.

The Department of Capital Market, Insurance and Savings at the Ministry of Finance, has released a draft circular on information risk management at institutional entities (click here for a copy of the draft circular, in Hebrew). The circular constitutes a framework for activities related to managing information security risks, including cyber-related risks, on a regular, ongoing basis. In an accompanying ...

Israeli Police to Operate a Cybercrime Hotline

The Israeli national police announced a plan to operate a telephone hotline directed to addressing cybercrime, which will be staffed by professional IT personnel. The hotline – 111 – is designed for dealing with cybercrime complaints such as online fraud, hacking, sex crimes and minor exploitation and more. The hotline is also designed to respond in real-time, allowing parents to ...

Database of all compulsory car insurance policies in Israel stolen from courier

A grave incident has led to the theft of a database containing information on all compulsory car insurance policies in Israel since 1985. The information was stored on a backup disk maintained by "Ron Bina", the company that administers the database of statistical car insurance information in Israel, and was stolen from a motorcycle driven by a courier of the ...
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