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New Israeli Directives on Cyber Risk Management and Risk Management for Regulated Financial Service Providers
June 16, 2022 / Anat Even-Chen
CMISA recently published two new risk management circulars for financial service providers, including small entities.
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Categories: Cyber | High Tech | Regulation
Evaluating National Security Aspects of Foreign Investments: Between National Security and Economic Uncertainty
June 16, 2022 / Amichai Cohen
In October 2019, Israel’s Ministerial Committee on National Security Affairs (the National Security Cabinet) decided to devise a mechanism for scrutinizing foreign investments in Israel. At the mechanism’s core is the “Advisory Board for Evaluating National Security Aspects of Foreign Investments.”
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Categories: International Law
Israeli Supreme Court Limits Possibility of Pleading Reliance on Assistance of Counsel as Defense against Indictment
May 16, 2022 / Gal Rozent, Ran Karmi
The Supreme Court issued a ruling in principle that it sees no merit in the approach of releasing a person who breached the law from criminal liability based on the fact his or her lawyer failed to warn that the planned action was criminal.
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Categories: Banking & Finance | Competition Law and Antitrust | Gaming | Internet | Regulation
Israeli Draft Bill Obligates Monopolists to Publish Financial Statements
May 16, 2022 / Gal Rozent, Ran Karmi
The striking innovation in this draft bill is that, upon its enactment, monopolists, even if not declared as such, must publish their financial statements, even if they are not reporting companies.
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Categories: Competition Law and Antitrust | Regulation
Tightening Sanctions on Russia
April 13, 2022 / Amichai Cohen
President Biden’s new executive order increases the restrictions on doing business with Russia.
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Categories: International Law
Amendment to Israel’s Anti-Money Laundering Law
April 3, 2022 / Zvi Gabbay, Ben Norman
At the end of March 2022, the Israeli Ministry of Justice published a draft amendment to the Prohibition on Money Laundering Law. The proposed amendment seeks to grant supervisory authority to the Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority (IMPA), comparable to that of the Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority (CMISA), over financial service providers for aspects of the prohibition on money laundering and terror financing.
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Categories: Regulation | White Collar
Significant Change in Format to Report Mergers to Competition Authority
March 28, 2022 / Gal Rozent, Irit Brodsky
The new format heralds a reduction in the volume of transactions that require reporting. However, it imposes a far heavier burden on parties to transactions that do require reporting, even for mergers posing no competitive concerns.
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Categories: Competition Law and Antitrust | Regulation
The Tesla Might Be Electric, but Is It Eco-Friendly?
March 6, 2022 / Sagi Gross, Izabel Pashayev
Elon Musk declared he would build a Tesla manufacturing factory in Germany in as early as 2019. The factory only obtained a license to operate now. The German regulator, environmental protection organizations, and Russian President Vladimir Putin all played a part.
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Categories: Corporate | Environmental Law | Regulation
Ukraine War and International Economic Sanctions
March 20, 2022 / Amichai Cohen
Israeli companies in the “risk zone” must ascertain if they are subject to sanctions and adopt a significant sanctions compliance plan.
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Categories: International Law
Foreign Funds from Additional Stock Exchanges May Dual List on the TASE
March 8, 2022 / Ron Shuhatovich
Until now, only foreign funds from a limited number of foreign exchanges have been able to register for trading in Israel. A Ministry of Finance amendment to the relevant regulations seeks to change this.
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Categories: Capital Markets | Capital Markets Regulation | Regulation
The War in Ukraine and International Economic Sanctions
February 27, 2022 / Amichai Cohen
The economic sanctions the United States has imposed on Russia have possible implications for the Israeli business community.
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Categories: International Law
Illegal Spilling of Sewage Water into Sea Leads to Significant Fine
February 13, 2022 / Sagi Gross, Izabel Pashayev
A boutique hotel in Jaffa was convicted of spilling sewage into the sea without a permit. The court fined the company and two of its employees.
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Categories: Environmental Law | Regulation
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority’s Recommendations Regarding the Appointment of Data Protection Officer
February 3, 2022 / Anat Even-Chen, Ben Norman
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority has published recommendations that organizations and companies in all sectors of the economy should appoint data protection officers, along with an instruction kit in this regard. The document was published at the end of January 2022 as part of Privacy Protection Week.
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Categories: Privacy Law | Regulation
Israeli Privacy Protection Authority Adapts Privacy Protection Laws
January 23, 2022 / Anat Even-Chen, Ben Norman
The draft bill is an important step toward achieving the objectives set by the Privacy Protection Authority and the government to increase privacy protection.
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Categories: Internet | Privacy Law | Regulation
Israeli Competition Authority Taking Strict Position toward Vertical Price Maintenance Arrangements
January 18, 2022 / Irit Brodsky
A few days ago, the Israeli Competition Authority published for public comments draft public statement 1/22, presenting its position on vertical price maintenance arrangements. The final public statement 1/22 will replace the Competition Authority’s previous statement 2/17 published in 2018.
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Categories: Competition Law and Antitrust | Consumer Protection | Regulation
Right to Privacy when Issuing Search Warrants of Computers and Cellular Devices
January 18, 2022 / Shir Rozenzweig
In an expanded panel of nine justices, Israeli Supreme Court prescribed a set of rules concerning procedures and judicial discretion on the granting of search warrants of computers and cellular devices as part of an investigation. 
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Categories: Privacy Law | Regulation | White Collar
Regulating Israeli Banks’ Provision of Services to Licensed Cryptocurrency Service-Providers
January 11, 2022 / Andrey Yanai
The Bank of Israel is proposing to regulate the provision of services to licensed cryptocurrency service-providers so that banks will not be able to sweepingly refuse to provide service and will have to formulate a risk management policy.
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Categories: Capital Markets | Capital Markets Regulation
Dramatic Ruling on Excessive Pricing: District Court Denies Two Motions to Certify Class Actions against Tnuva
January 10, 2022 / Irit Brodsky
In December 2021, the Jerusalem District Court dismissed two motions to certify a class action against the leading dairy manufacturer in Israel, Tnuva, for charging excessive prices. Both the motion and the dismissal are part of an intense dispute for years. The dispute revolves around whether the prohibition of a monopolist charging an “unfair” price applies to charging excessive fees. In 2014, the director-general of the Competition Authority published a public statement on the prohibition of excessive pricing by a monopoly.
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Categories: Competition Law and Antitrust | Regulation
Israeli Environmental Protection Ministry Takes Major Step to Ensure Environmental Rehabilitation per Polluter Pays Principle
January 5, 2022 / Sagi Gross, Izabel Pashayev
The Knesset Finance Committee, headed by MK Alex Kushnir (Yisrael Beitenu), recently approved a mechanism for compensation for the rehabilitation of industrial waste damages caused by Rotem Amfert (of the ICL Group). The committee arrived at the mechanism as part of discussions on the extension of the phosphate mining concession currently granted to the company.
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Categories: Environmental Law | Regulation
Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection: ILS 3 Million Sanction on Shufersal
December 5, 2021 / Sagi Gross, Izabel Pashayev
The Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection announced this week its imposition of a pecuniary sanction totaling about ILS 3 million on the leading supermarket chain Shufersal for violations of the Clean Air Law. (In particular, the company violated provisions mandating the reduction and prevention of air pollution from its vehicles).
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Categories: Corporate Governance and ESG | Environmental Law | Regulation
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