Prime MInister Netanyahu really needs to find a way to keep Ministers Smotritch and Ben Gvir (along with several other lesser senior ministers and MKs) quiet. Just for a bit.

of the responses I have seen so far, MK Tali Gotliv's response was sharper but Minister Miri Regev's was more interesting, so she gets it..

I guess PM Netanyahu couldnt go with Alan Dershowitz as he was rumored to be planning since the release of the list last week of Jeffrey Epstein associates included Dershowitz. 

Hamechadesh is reporting that a young boy, a lad of 11 years old, was riding his bike in Bet Shemesh, near his house when he hit a pothole of some sort in the sidewalk caused by city construction meant to prepare the area for the planting of trees. The area has not been closed off as a safety precaution, and the kid went flying when his bike hit the pothole. The child sustained damage to his face, especially in the mouth area, including losing a tooth. I hope he was wearing a helmet and did not also sustain any head damage.

According to Globes, the courts ruled against the Israel Rail Authority in a case in which a group of men decided to daven in one of the rail cars, and the woman was told by a train attendant/usher to move to sit in another car. She was awarded 16,000nis by the courts for the incident.

Hatzalah suing Hatzalah.

According to JPost, someone has filed a class action suit against Burger King in Israel for serving him a non kosher sandwich.

A few years ago IKEA Israel put out the first "Haredi version" of their popular catalog. This version was to be distributed in Haredi neighborhoods and towns. The main difference in the Haredi version was that the catalog included only pictures of men using and enjoying the furniture and accessories, and no women.

it is not uncommon for complaints to be filed against Israel in the International Criminal Court, the ICC, in, and also known as, the Hague. 

There was a court case in Northern Israel that was the result of a fight that broke out in shul over a pot of cholent.

Israel Hayom is reporting that a group of 450 people who voted for (including activists and volunteers) Kachol Lavan in the recent elections has filed a civil lawsuit against Benny Gantz for joining the Netanyahu government against his explicit campaign promises.

They are saying this was a breach of a substantive basic promise and is therefore fraud and a breach of an agreement. They are claiming this was a major promise and part of the campaign and they, and thousands others, supported and worked for the party because of it, and 1.2 million Israelis voted for it because of that promise.

According to the claimants, they are concerned about fraud and especially about the long term effects on the democratic regime of which basic beliefs have been emptied and any alternative leadership has been wiped out, and this is a cornerstone of democracy, along with criminally dealing with voters votes that were given to the elected to be a representative of his voters rather than to support his political antagonist.

Talk about a waste of time and energy. I don't think it will be too difficult to prove a precedent for politicians breaking even the most serious of campaign promises and that voters have to take that option into account and accept any promises with a grain of salt.

What do you think the chances are of a lawsuit against China for starting and spreading the COVID-19 CoronaVirus?

I guess we will soon find out.

Calcalist is reporting that an organization from Herzliya wanting to represent the residents of Israel has filed a class action lawsuit against China for 100 billion shekels for spreading the CoronaVirus. The citizens of Israel have been harmed and incurred damages from the negligence of China.

the suit claims that the State of Israel is undergoing one of its worst crises since its inception. Tourism, air travel, restaurants, leisure and other industries have all completely crashed. The education system is shut down. A million employees have been fired or sent on unpaid vacation. Hundreds of thousands of freelancers are looking at their businesses failing with no income. Every single citizen in the country has been affected by this, no matter what industry he works in or what type of work he does. The damages are estimated at 100 billion shekel.

I don't know how they came to that number. Nobody knows how long this will go on for. By the time this is all over, it could be much more. I await my check.

After the recent reports about Israel Post secretly giving priority service to Amazon deliveries, leaving all other companies shipping through them in the lurch, things are getting really interesting.

According to TOI, an online business that relies on Israel Post for delivering the products customers buy from them has filed a class action suit against Israel Post for damages due to ongoing delays in deliveries of the packages. The lawsuit is for 50.6million NIS and the claim is that Israel Post is favoring Amazon deliveries to the detriment of all other companies.

The lawsuit claims breach of contract as preferential treatment is forbidden, along with the fact that he is paying full rate for deliveries yet the deliveries are not being processed in a timely fashion, even when he purchases special expedited delivery. Israel Post sold, and continues to sell, services at full value knowing it would not keep its side of the contract due to prioritizing Amazon packages.

I cant wait to see how this turns out. In the meantime, perhaps companies needing to ship product to customers should look for alternate delivery companies and stop using Israel Post. Even Amazon does not use Israel Post for all its shipping needs and uses a slew of other delivery companies to handle its deliveries.

It seems a Lubavitch man applied for a job on McDonald's (not kosher, in the USA). McDonald's responded that if he wanted the job he would have to shave his beard. The applicant offered to keep his beard in a net, but he could not shave it off as it goes against his religious principles. McDonald's said that will not work for them and did not give him the job - the applicant claims only because of the beard, as he says was told by the manager that he would have the job if not for that policy violation.

The applicant is now suing McDonald's for violation his religious freedoms and denying him a job for a reason that goes against his religious principles. He applied for the job, and was rejected, in 2016, so he is suing now, in 2019, for back wages for the 3 years he would have been employed by them had they not violated his religious freedom.
source: Newsweek

One fact I left out is that he had applied for work as a maintenance worker, not as a food server or as a cook. I can understand the beard policy with no compromise for someone in a position handling food, but as a maintenance worker changing lightbulbs, fixing leaky sinks, touching up the paint job, adjusting loose chairs, and the like, I do not see why they cannot compromise on this policy in situations of religious needs. I guess the New York Yankees (now known as the New York Savages) also have a strict no facial hair policy with no compromises ever given, so maybe there is something more to it then a loose hair falling into the food and more of a uniform clean look as part of their corporate image.

I have seen online in social media many people claiming this guy is a fraud and he simply found an easy lawsuit he is looking to make money off. There is no way, they claim, that a frum guy would apply to work, for real, in a McDonald's, so the entire application was just a scam looking to build a case for an eventual lawsuit.

I have no way to know this guy's motives, but I do not see why that has to be true. Today in the USA pretty much anybody can work anywhere with no real limitations. This guy was not applying to serve or prepare treif food, that might be a halachic problem and surely he would not want to do that, but to work in the maintenance department. I doubt there is anything halachically inappropriate about working in McDonalds or in other treif restaurants in a non-food capacity, such as cleaning the toilets, changing the lightbulbs, painting the walls, and all the other issues that require the attention of the maintenance people. In the Land of the Free, in the land of opportunity and freedom, in the current millennium, people can pretty much find ways to do almost anything with few, if any limitations.

While I can understand why some frum people might look at this as a scam and an easy lawsuit, I see no reason this cannot be legitimate. 

Itamar Ben Gvir went into a gas station in Tel Aviv and filled his car up with gas and went in to the shop to buy a can of coke. Ben Gvir was met with an employee of the station who recognized him and called him a Nazi and seemingly refused to sell him the drink.

Ben Gvir decided to sue. He sued the chain, the station manager and the employee. The case was just decided, at least partially. In the meantime, the courts found against the employee who now has to pay Ben Gvir 200,000nis plus  court costs. The case against the gas station chain and station manager continue.

200,000nis for calling someone a Nazi. That is amazing. Another few decisions like this and maybe this will put a damper on people here calling anyone they don't like or approve of a Nazi. Turning Nazi into a basic insult is demeaning to the magnitude of the Holocaust and to the victims.

I would next like to see the police, who are commonly called "Nazi" by protesters, video such insults and take the aggressors to court and make them pay out of pocket, as another method of fighting the violent protests and protesters.

this is interesting. I have no idea of the legal issues involved and who has what rights. If thee are any lawyers out there that might offer some insight into this situation, I would appreciate your thoughts..

A couple of years ago Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg was convicted of sexual assault, fraud, rape and sodomy. A plea bargain left him convicted but dropped the rape and sodomy from the final indictment.

Three women who had filed complaints about rape and sodomy, which were ultimately left off the indictment, might now find themselves up a creek. The family of Sheinberg is suing, or considering suing, those three women fro damages. After all, they claimed he had raped and sodomized them, yet he was not convicted of that, making it perhaps a false charge. That false charge contributed, presumably somewhat, to the financial damage they have incurred because of the claims against him and the conviction.

At the time his accounts were locked as liens were filed against his home and any bank accounts he was a signatory on. The rest of the family now lives in a small rented home and basically survive with the financial support of extended family. They say they did nothing wrong yet they are the ones suffering because of those claims against him.
source INN

Again, I have no idea as to the legal issues and who can claim what from whom.

Being that he was indicted and convicted, I would consider it horrible to allow those making claims against him to be open to such suits just because a plea agreement left a few claims off the final charge sheet. It would open up to all criminals room to make a plea and agree to partial charges, when possible, and allow the family to sue for the charges not included. People would be afraid to file claims and would be forced to continuing to suffer in silence.

People should not be making false claims. The law should protect against that and should deter people from doing so. But people with real claims should not be deterred from making them. I hope they decide not to sue, and if they do sue it will be either thrown out of court.

The wife and children did nothing wrong, and they too are victims of Sheinberg and his assault. They are not victims of the women he raped. If he had any money left, they should sue him, not the victims.

A Jewish woman in Detroit is suing Denny's for having put bacon in a meatless omelette she ordered and ate. Angela Montgomery considers herself a practicing Jew and bacon is therefore prohibited. In addition she had some harsh words for how vile bacon and pigs are. When she told them about the bacon and demanded an explanation, they apologized for the mistake (the bacon is kept next to the vegetables) and offered to make a new omelette and deduct the omelette from her bill.

In a separate lawsuit in Detroit a Muslim is suing KFC for a similar issue.
source: Detroit Free Press

I see people have been very critical of Montgomery in their comments, saying things like she should not have gone in there anyway, what did she expect, how does she consider herself a practicing Jew yet eat at Denny's, and on and on in that theme.

Practicing Jew and Religious, or Orthodox, Jew are not the same. There are many Jews who are practicing Jews in various ways and at different levels. There are plenty of people who eat out at non-kosher restaurants without eating explicitly non-kosher food, even if halachically there are problems (eg things cooked on the same griddle as non-kosher meats).

There are also plenty of people who eat non-kosher food but still will not eat bacon and pork. Whatever her behavior is, and how right or wrong it might be within the boundaries of halacha, she has the right to request no bacon and expect to get food without bacon in it. And, considering that Montgomery is a Jew who will go to a non-kosher restaurant to eat at least some of the foods there, I am impressed by how opposed she is to bacon and how upset she is by what happened.

I'm not sure what to think of this. It is a bit shocking.

A class action suit worth 100,000,000nis was recently filed against the company "Mishkan Hatcheilet" claiming deception of the customer.

Mishkan Hatcheilet is the largest manufacturer of tzitzis strings and tallis garments in the world. The claim, and take pride in this, that their tzitzis strings are prepared and tied by "God fearing avreichim".

The person who filed the suit claims that Mishkan Hatcheilet employs prisoners to spin and tie the tzitzis strings. The claims includes testimony from some Arabs in prison that they too were employed preparing the strings.

Tzitzis strings prepared by non-Jews are invalid for use. If the claim is correct, not only are the strings not being prepared by God fearing avreichim, but they might not even be kosher at all.

The court has given Mishkan Hatcheilet 90 days to respond to the claim.

Mishkan Hatcheilet has responded that all the tzitzis coming out of their factories have any of various hechsherim on them, including Eida, Beit Yosef, Rav Wosner and others. He admits they, as other tzitzis factories, use prisoners to make the strings, but the tying is all done with a hechsher.
source: Behadrei

It seems to me that the lawsuit is claiming a problem in the spinning process while the response from Mishkan Hatcheilet deals only with the hechsher on the tying process.

I have nothing against prisoners doing productive work, but some people might want to know this information. There is definitely a machlokes about non-Jews spinning the tzitzis strings. For people relying on only the best hechsherimm, they might want to know such information, and it is surprising that the Eida, for example, would allow this.

About half a year ago Mrs. Rena Rabinowitz announced she is suing El Al for having asked her to move and change her seat (in business class) in order to accommodate a Haredi male who did not want to sit next to her. Rabinowitz acquiesced and moved, but then sued.

As an aside, to digress, the attempt to move someone else is wrong. If someone does nto want to sit next to a woman, or to move his seat for any reason, he should be the one moved - not move the other person.

the court case has come to an end with a court-mandated agreement.

The Marker is reporting that El Al and Rabinowitz have come to an agreement, mandated and approved by the courts, by which El Al stewards and stewardesses will no longer be allowed to ask passengers to move and requesting such a move based on gender is illegal. El Al committed to training its employees to that effect. As well, they agreed on compensation to the tune of 6500nis.

One interesting point in the case is when El Al claimed they will not take into account any such seating request (i.e. to not be placed next to a female) in advance but during the flight if it helps passengers as a way of providing better service, being considerate of someone's religious sensitivities,  and helping the flight take off on time, they will try to accommodate. The judge then asked what would El Al stewards do if a passenger requests to not sit next to an Arab. El Al rejected any such accommodation outright and said that such a request would be immediately rejected, even at the expense of causing a delay.

El Al assumed it is not acceptable to discriminate against an Arab, and they considered asking one to move seats to be such discrimination, but when it is a woman they somehow no longer consider it discrimination.

Anyways, as per the agreement, El Al now has to find other solutions when such a situation will arise, as they committed to not asking women to move. Again, I don't know why the man was not being asked to move, considering he was the one with the problem, and maybe that will be El Al's solution in the future.

This has got to be one of the funniest things I have read in a long time.. at least from serious news media.

in 1917 Arthur Balfour wrote a letter in which he expressed the United Kingdom's support for a Jewish national homeland in Palestine and sympathy for the Zionist aspirations. This was a significant moment and eventually led to the State of Israel being established, with many other important moments along the way.

The Palestinians are now preparing a lawsuit against the United Kingdom because of that Balfour Declaration.

According to the Times of Israel, the PA is saying that the Brits are responsible for all Israeli crimes since the end of the British Mandate in 1948.

I don't know what they would expect to get out of such a lawsuit - reparations from the British government? a reversal of the original declaration?

I figure that if they are now moving on to blame someone else for their troubles, that is good for us. Let them concentrate their efforts in England, start their intifadas there, and leave us alone.

I wonder if they will sue the United Nations next for voting in favor of the establishment of the State of Israel.