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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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...
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