Law

The tax authority has started chasing Israelis holding accounts abroad. The Authority began investigations following information transmitted to Israel as part of the extensive exchange of information with European countries. The Tax Authority has arrested three Israelis - Aharon Winkler, Shai Tzur and Maya Bankov-Tzur - on suspicion of failure to report overseas bank accounts and other tax offenses. The three were arrested as part of two different investigations conducted by Diamond Unit and Mole Investigator Haifa and Northern Investigations, after their names were included in a list of...

Broadcom chipmaker defeated the israeli tax authority: Broadcom District Court received Broadcom's NIS 150 million tax assessment for its Dune acquisition deal. In the judgment, Tax Judge Dr. Samuel Bornstein rejected the tax authority's claim that the Dune acquisition by Broadcom Semiconductors Ltd. was an artificial transaction, and even required the tax authority to pay Broadcom legal fees of NIS 75,000. For Broadcom, this is a "saving" of about NIS 150 million. The original tax authority requirement from the company, from 2009, was about NIS 100 million, and the amount accrued interest

A class action lawsuit has been filed and approved against the Phoenix insurance company for health insurance policies issued by 2016. The scope of the claim is estimated to be NIS 125 million. This is a class action request that was filed in June 2015 and dealt with how the insurance company used to compensate policyholders who used the supplemental insurance of their health insurance fund rather than private insurance. The period during which the claim is concerned is June 2012 to June 2015. By 2016, private health insurance policies included a mechanism that would incentivize...

A serious breach in Wetsap has been identified by Israeli cyber researchers, it allowed hackers to send a message to group chats, which could cause the app to collapse for all chat members. In this way, hackers could force users to delete the app, download it again, and delete all data in the group chat. WhatsApp fixed the security vulnerability after Check Point investigators reported it and recommended updating it to the latest version available in the app stores. Wattsap has over 1.5 billion users worldwide and is considered the largest and most popular chat app today. More than 65...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Wednesday) officially filed his request for immunity from prosecution just hours before the deadline for filing. In light of the request for immunity, the legal proceedings against Netanyahu are frozen until the Knesset Committee is formed to discuss the request for immunity. It should be noted that contrary to Netanyahu's assertion that the immunity is temporary, he sought substantial immunity from some of the charges against him, which would grant him a permanent exemption from prosecution for them. Netanyahu's Attorneys wrote at the beginning of...

The third person killed in a work accident in 2020: A 30-year-old construction worker was killed Wednesday morning at a backed-up construction site on Lehigh Street in Rishon Lezion. MDA paramedics and paramedics arrived on the scene. An initial police investigation revealed that it was probably a work accident. Police also said the report had been transferred to the Ministry of Labor. With the opening of the police investigation, evidence from everyone present collects to determine how the worker who worked on a scaffold on the sixth floor fell to his death. One of the directions being...

Israel President Reuven Rivlin decided to convert about four months out of Nochi Dankner's imprisonment, on probation to be added to the probation sentence imposed on him. This decision will allow Dankner to stand before the parole committee soon, rather than face it as it should, in early May. The statement further states that "the decision was made on the basis of Dankner's medical condition these days. These are medical circumstances that were not before the court at sentencing and which, according to medical opinions, were greatly aggravated during his imprisonment and necessitated...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's announcement of a waiver of immunity is speeding his way to the bench, as Attorney General Avihai Mandelblit is no longer in charge of filing the indictment tomorrow morning. It is doubtful he will do so now that the prime minister is still in the US or back from his mission, but surely that will happen in the coming days

A year and three months after he began serving his three years in prison, businessman and former IDB chairman Nochi Dankner is set to go free. This morning, a person who was previously considered the most powerful man in the economy and jailed for securities law offenses At the gate of a prison jail, a prisoner behind bars became a non-suspended prisoner. This, after last Thursday's release from the Ma'asiyahu Prison, approved his request for early release. The decision by the parole committee to order Dankner's release was made after the State Attorney's Office, through Attorney Gabi...

Government legal advisor Avihai Mandelblit responded Saturday to claims that seclusion from overseas has been avoided due to legal bureaucracy: "The adviser has not delayed or prevented the government from acting according to the needs, as presented, regarding the isolation of those returning to the country from abroad. In false and false briefing. " The court statement said on April 2, 2020, the government approved an amendment to the Emergency Regulations (New Corona Virus) (isolation rather than state isolation), 1920, authorizing the Ministry of Health to order that every person...