Law

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit did call on the High Court to reject the petition of the Movement for Quality of Government, which demanded the declaration of the prime minister's imprisonment due to his criminal trial, but the saga of the imprisonment is just beginning. , Which may lead to imprisonment. The adviser pointed to two main parameters that could lead to Netanyahu's imprisonment. The first parameter: "functional" fortification resulting from his involvement in the trial against him. "The possibility cannot be ruled out categorically that in exceptional concrete...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not withstand the pressure and crashes. He decided to appoint blue-and-white chairman Beni Gantz as justice minister in the transitional government - three hours before the High Court was due to discuss the appointment of Ophir Akunis to the post. A statement from Netanyahu said the appointment would be approved by the government today. "The prime minister has submitted a detailed response to the Supreme Court that completely rejects the argument that yesterday's debate in the government was against the law," it said, "nevertheless, after the prime...

Tensions between Arabs and Jews in Israel reach negative highs in two acts of Lynch in Acre and Bat Yam. In Acre, a Jewish man was beaten and seriously injured. In Bat Yam an Arab man was beaten and seriously injured. In Lod, the riots continue despite the curfew coming into effect, riots began in Bat Yam with members of "La Familia", and also in Tiberias, Haifa and Acre it was not quiet: a 30-year-old Jewish citizen was fatally injured in a lynching attempt in Acre when he was attacked with sticks and stones. MDA staff evacuated him to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya. At the same...

Also on Saturday evening, riots and violent riots continue in Arab localities and mixed cities in the country, against the background of Operation in Gaza. The riots began at the end of Shabbat, and the police announced a curfew in Lod, which they mark as the main boiling point, starting at 19:00. To this end, and at the request of the Israel Police, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz extended the validity of the declaration of a "civil emergency" in Lod by an additional 48 hours. He toured the city and gave Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai a declaration extending the validity of the civil...

The government has approved the establishment of a state commission of inquiry to look into the events that led to the Meron disaster. 52 days after 45 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured to varying degrees, a committee will be set up headed by a judge that will include four other members besides him. The state will allocate NIS 6 million to the administration of the courts on a one-time basis, as well as 5 temporary manpower standards that will be used for the committee's expenses. The resolution approved at noon (Sunday) states that "the committee will investigate the...

An expanded panel of the Supreme Court judges Thursday overturned a previous ruling in the court, stating that a woman who betrayed her husband should not be denied her entitlement to half the value of the house in which they lived. Were in the minority. The central question in which the judges ruled is whether infidelity could be a consideration in the decision to divide property between divorced spouses. In 2018, the High Court upheld the ruling of the Great Rabbinical Court in the case, thus strengthening its decision to consider treason in the division of property. Until then, the...

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has decided to file an indictment against MK David Bitan in bribery cases related to his position in the Rishon Lezion municipality. The affair known as the "1803 case" deals with the suspicion that between the years 2017-2011, Bitan and two of his friends received benefits from private parties, and in return acted to promote the interests of those parties. Earlier this year, Bitan recovered from a corona after being hospitalized for about a month in the intensive care unit. Among the said private entities from which he received benefits are the "Danya...

The Israeli payment company Pioneer (Payoneer) was fined $ 1.4 million by the US Treasury Department for violating 2,260 different sanctions in a large number of countries, including Iran and Syria. Other countries include Ukraine, Sudan and violations of sanctions against individuals who are defined as barriers to money transfers by US authorities. According to the Ministry of Finance report between 2018-2013, Pioneer processed 2,241 payments to entities located in the Crimea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria as well as 19 violations of sanctions by individuals who are blocked by the US...

State Comptroller Netanyahu Engelman published a special report with many significant shortcomings in the treatment of the corona epidemic in the first, second and part of the third wave. Together with the then replacement prime minister, Bnei Gantz. The Comptroller referred to the fact that the lack of a state budget harmed the government's budgetary conduct in times of crisis, to harm students following prolonged distance learning through zoom, and also to the fact that no solution was found to the issue of contagion by returning to Israel via Ben Gurion Airport. Persistent and raised...

Teva will be prosecuted for providing illegal incentives to two charities to encourage the use of the drug Copaxone to treat multiple sclerosis, and allow the company to bounce the price of the drug without hurting the demand for the drug. A Massachusetts court has rejected Teva's request to outright dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by the U.S. Department of Justice in August 2020. According to the lawsuit, Teva fraudulently withdrew payments from the federal health insurance company Medicare, flowing $ 328 million to two charities between 2006 and 2015. According to the lawsuit, the...