Judgment Summaries
All Uqbi v. The State of Israel
Our law office in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv summarizes key Supreme Court verdicts that determine judicial interpretation of Israeli law. In this article, our real estate law experts will summarize All Uqbi v. The State of Israel which determined the right of a local Bedouin tribe to expropriated tribal land. Background information In 2015, the…
Read MoreAadel Ka’adan v. Israel Lands Administration
Our office provides summaries of key High Court of Justice rulings that affected current interpretations of Israeli law. This article explains the case of Aadel Ka’adan v. Israel Lands Administration, which helped clarify issues of Israeli land law. The case of Aadel Ka’adan v. Israel Lands Administration is a landmark ruling made by the Israeli…
Read MoreStamka v. Minister of the Interior
As part of our office’s project of summarizing and explicating key Israeli Supreme Court decisions, this article summarizes Stamka v. the Minister of Interior, an HCJ case which determined that Facts Petitioners, who are intermarried, challenged the Ministry of the Interior’s 1995 interpretation of the Law of Return. They also challenged the Ministry of the…
Read MoreRufeisen v. Minister of the Interior – “Brother Daniel”
As a part of our office’s summaries of Israeli law and High Court of Justice decisions, we review the case of “Brother Daniel”, concerning the right of Jews who converted to another religion to immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return. The Facts Oswald Rufeisen, aka “Brother Daniel” was born in Poland in 1922.…
Read MoreThe “Second Beresford Case” Judgment (HCJ 265/87)
As part of our efforts to summarize key verdicts that established judicial interpretation of Israeli law, we review the “Second Beresford Case”, which further reviewed the Aliyah rights of Messianic Jews, as well as what qualifies an applicant as a Messianic Jew \ someone who converted to a different religion. Overview The petitioners, three married…
Read MoreThe “First Beresford Case” Judgment (HCJ 265/87)
Our law office summarizes the most pertinent cases which established judicial interpretation of Israeli laws over the past decades. In this article, we review the “First Beresford case”, which established that Messianic Jews do not have the right to immigrate (make Aliyah) to Israel under the Law of Return. Facts The petitioners are a married…
Read MorePrecedent-setting ruling on recognition of alternative conversions in Israel
In a dramatic judgement, the Supreme Court recently ruled that those who have undergone alternative (Reform or Conservative) conversion in Israel will be recognized as Jews and will be subject to the Law of Return. The Supreme Court ruling essentially allows recognition of alternative conversions – those conducted in Israel but not defined as Orthodox.…
Read MoreJudging a bottle by its cover – Perfume, reputation, and Israeli IP law
Israel’s Intellectual Property Law has a number of unique properties, some stemming from the way judges tend to rely on Biblical and Talmudic precedent when interpreting 21st century legal issues. In this article, an IP lawyer will provide a summary of an Israeli IP suit, centered around the contents and labeling of a container, as…
Read MoreMaltech vs Israeli Importer – Trademark Infringement Case In Review
Trademark infringement in a serious concern in copyright law, and though it is easier to enforce in our modern globalized world, international litigation is always more complicated than legal concerns limited to the borders of a single country. In this article, we will review a recent case concerning international intellectual property law, and address the…
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