Posts by Doron Afik

A company may avoid holding an annual meeting and appoint an auditor for a period not exceeding 3 years

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A shareholder sought to appoint for the company an independent auditor contending that the company’s existing auditor is in a conflict of interest because he is authorized to report in several companies of one of the shareholders and also that his appointment…

Rights in the estate of an agricultural association are rights subject to permission and are not considered part of an estate

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Upon demise of the father, one of his sons requested that he and his wife be recognized as the owners of the father’s farm, by virtue of his appointment as “continuing son” by the father, an appointment that was approved by the…

The police lacks authority to conduct a consensual search of computer material in the absence of a judicial warrant

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The Public Defender’s Office filed a motion to quash the State Attorney’s directive and the temporary order of the Police Investigations Division based on it, which allows a search of computer material with the consent of the person who owns it and…

Eligibility for zero VAT is not determined by the decision of the service providers, but by the conditions stipulated in the law

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A company that provides medical tourism services was obligated to pay VAT for hospitalization and related services in cases where the tourist paid it and not to the medical service providers, and they obligated it to pay VAT. The Court held that…

A waiver of claims signed by an agent is valid and binds the principal if ratified through subsequent conduct

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Committee members of a real estate purchase group signed a waiver of claims on behalf of the purchase group members as a condition for receiving surplus funds from the project, but some group members later contended that the waiver was signed without…

The extent of privacy protection in a public place depends on the circumstances and the degree of a person’s expectation of privacy in that place

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A candidate in the elections for a workers’ committee contended irregularities in the election.  He demanded to receive full footage produced by the security cameras watching the entrances to the voting area in addition to those videos that were given to him…

Even if a will expresses the free will of the testator it does not mean that the testator was necessarily qualified to make it

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A woman made a will in 2012 in which she distributed her property to her three children.  In 2017, after it was determined that she did not need a guardian despite being an 84-year-old and nursed, she made a will in a…

A trustee of a public trust may not circumvent the salary limit by receiving it from an asset indirectly held by the trust

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The only two trustees of a public trust created an extensive system of holdings (including through two companies registered in Panama) and ended up with a private company from which they received a high salary. The Court held that this was a…

A negative past record may result in the disqualification of a tender bid

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A tenders committee disqualified a sole bid in a tender for the provision of cleaning services due to the bidder’s negative past record. The Court dismissed the petition and held that the tenders committee’s decision to reject the bid based on the…

A supplier who terminates an engagement with a distributor because the distributor refused its demand for price coordination breaches an agreement

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A gas products marketer, which sells products to several distributors, demanded that a store owner, with whom it had worked for 15 years, not advertise products at a price lower than the price it set.  After the store owner objected to the…