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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 ...

Madonna hacker sentenced to imprisonment

Mr. Adi Lederman, who pleaded guilty to hacking Madonna’s crew’s computers, has been sentenced to 14 months in prison and a fine of 15,000 NIS (approximately US $4,000). The Magistrate Court in Tel Aviv also sentenced Mr. Lederman to an additional, but suspended, 6 month imprisonment.

In February this year, the office of the State's attorney charged Mr. Lederman with ...

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 Court quashes an interim order to block access to Popcorn Time

The Tel Aviv District Court has quashed the interim order it issued this past May that had compelled six Internet Service Providers in Israel to “use the measures at their disposal to block the access from Israel to the infringing domain names and website addresses … so that Internet subscribers from Israel would have no possibility of communicating and/or surfing ...

Israeli District Court: Google Must Remove Defaming Search Results

Google must honor requests to remove search results if they are clearly defaming, according to a recent Israeli District Court holding (the District Court’s decision, in Hebrew, is available here) delivered on an appeal of the Tel Aviv Magistrate Court’s judgment from last year (the Magistrate court’s decision, in Hebrew, is available here).
 
The dispute in question ...

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 ...

Israeli Supreme Court: "A smartphone is a person's private realm"

“A smartphone is akin to a mobile vault containing photos, at times sensitive photos, personal correspondence and data, some of which is confidential”, according to a recent Israeli Supreme Court criminal appeal judgment that sentenced a thief convicted of robbing cellphones from teenagers to three years in prison. 

The court justified the relatively severe punishment in that the “loss of ...

Israel launches an online searchable database of designs

The Israeli Patent Authority at the Israeli Ministry of Justice announced the launch of a new online database of designs approved for publication. Thus far, those interested in searching the designs database had to do so in-presence at the Patent Authority's offices in Jerusalem. The new database, accessible through the Patent Authority's website, gives convenient access to review the designs' ...
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