Posts by Doron Afik

A municipality may sometimes be obligated to pay a supplier even if no written agreement was signed

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A municipality refused to compensate a supplier for works performed in two projects at the order of the municipality, amounting to approximately ILS 850,000 due to the fact that no formal signed agreement exists, due to an election period and changes in…

A relationship contract is a general agreement open to changes and updates in matters that the parties to the contract have chosen not to regulate in advance

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The Supreme Court ruled that the agreement is a closed agreement and there is no place to oblige or prevent the shareholders from performing any actions. A relational contract is a contract that is formulated in general terms only and in which…

Boots on the Ground, Eyes on the Ground

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 not only save a major headache for foreign entities interested in conducting activities in Israel (whether as a branch or a subsidiary), but are sometimes not just a convenience but a necessity of reality. In the global era, many companies manage branches…

Apartment buyers who have legally canceled a contract are entitled to a refund at a realistic rate based on the apartment’s current market value

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Apartment buyers filed a lawsuit against a contractor demanding the cancellation of the sales agreement and the return of the consideration, after they were provided with substandard parking that could not be reasonably used. The court accepted the claim for cancellation of…

Anyone who publishes a fictional work that includes a character with characteristics identical to a real person is subject to lawsuits.

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A writer published a fictional book centered on a villain, a criminal, and a swindler. The character in the book was described as an Israeli, an intelligence lecturer at Sofia University, a real estate developer in Bulgaria, who had undergone gastric bypass…

Who owns the cloud?

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The digital revolution has fundamentally changed the perception of ownership of products and services.  If in the past a commercial transaction focused on the sale of a tangible asset or a permanent software license, today Software as a Service (SaaS) models blur…

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…