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Law Firms - Defamation Law
Y. Muszkat, Law Offices
Y.Muszkat is one of Israel’s leading
libel and media law firms. Founded
by Yoram Muszkat in 1971, the firm
consults, represents and supports Israel’s larg-
est media organizations including (Broadcasting
Authority, Jerusalem Post, financial newspaper
Globes, and the News1 website) in commercial
and libel lawsuits, as well as leading commer-
cial bodies including Industrial Buildings, ONil
Construction, TNT Group and more. The firm is in-
volved in commercial litigation in all jurisdictions
and sectors: libel and media law (including Inter-
net), civil, commercial, and administrative law,
real estate law, labor law, planning and construc-
tion, commercial real estate, IP, local authority law,
and representation and support of international
deals and providing legal consultancy regarding
international law.
The Firm’s Lawyers
Adv. Yoram Muszkat – Graduate of the Hebrew
University. Licensed to practice law since 1971.
Published themonthlymagazineMonitin. Special-
izes in comprehensive legal consultancy on the
media, copyright, libel, real estate, planning and
construction, and local authority matters. Exten-
sive experience in court appearances and drawing
up international contracts.
Adv. Orian Eshkoli-Yahalom– Graduate of the Law
school of the College of Management andMember
of the Israel Bar since 1998. An articled clerk at
Lieblich-Moser, she joined the firm in 1999 and
is involved inmedia law including representation,
real estate, commercial lawsuits, commercial con-
tracts and copyright. She also provides routine
consultancy.
Adv. Shira Reich – Graduate of the HebrewUniver-
sity’s Law Faculty and a Member of the Israel Bar
since 1998. An articled clerk at Lieblich-Moser,
she joined the firm in 2000 and is involved in com-
mercial law, specializing in real estate, labor law
and international courier law. She also provides
routine consultancy.
Adv. MenachemAvraham– Graduate of Haifa Uni-
versity’s Law Faculty and a Member of the Israel
Bar since 2008. He came to Y. Muszkat in 2006 be-
fore his clerkship and continued through to 2008
when he joined as a lawyer. He is engaged in civil
and commercial litigation and specializes in press
law and libel, labor law, local authority law, and IP.
He also provides routine consultancy.
Adv. SharonSpinat-Searay, consultant - Graduate
of Tel Aviv University law school and a member of
the Israel Bar since 1995 and of the Law Society
of England and Wales since 2002. Adv. Spinat-
Searay joined the firm in 1995 and was a partner.
During the years 2008-2013 Adv.Spinat-Searay
was involved in business and social ventures and
today she is a special consultant to the firm. Adv.
Spinat-Searay specializes in media law, libel and
copyrights, commercial litigation and contracts.
Areas of Practice
The firm’s areas of practice include litigation on
commercial law, real estate, planning and con-
struction, handling libel law, copyright andmedia,
environment and representing local authorities as
well as routine consultancy to public and private
bodies.
Notable Legal Achievements
The firmhas taken part in, as advisor or represen-
tative for clients, many of the country’smain cases
and significant precedent-setting achievements
including: Globes v Telegraph and Mati Golan;
Haaretz v Ifat (press cuttings co.) – an innovative
precedent in copyright; Logistical Services v Sahar
Marine Service – a precedent on trade secrets; Ma-
sof v Postal Authority – lack of goodwill of a public
authority in conducting negotiations; High Court
Appeal by Globes and journalist Yoav Yitzhak v
TASE and others; High Court Appeal by Globes and
journalist Yoav Yitzhak v Attorney General Yosef
Harish and others; HerzliyaMarina vmarine engi-
neers – precedent for professional responsibility
of engineers; declarative ruling about the rights
of veteran members of Kibbutz Glil Yam and their
heirs; ruling about debts of elected local authority
officials regarding Zion Hava; journalistic immunity
– regarding Dr. Shlomo Cohen v Globes; revealing
documents regarding Dubek; SuperPharm v Gabi
Gazit; David Spektor v Globes; Carmel Vernia v
Globes and more.
The firm also acted for clients in three precedent
setting rulings about law relating to the Internet:
Weintraub v Globes – where it was ruled that a
website does not have the obligation to follow,
monitor and remove talkbacks that slur people
mentioned on the site. In the case of Aviv Bush-
insky v The Marker, the firm won a precedent set-
ting ruling that a website is bound to remove an
article from its online archives that was part of a
libel case by the client in addition to the financial
compensation he was granted. Concerning the
use of the RSS Protocol, Regarding Adv. Apeldorf
v Yoav Yitzhak, Yitzhak used the RSS Protocol to
extract information from Adv. Apeldorf’s blog, as
well as spreading its content. In this case, it was
ruled that Adv. Apeldorf gave permission to use
the information, however, not defining in the RSS
Protocol what informationmay be extracted. It was
also ruled that Yoav Yitzhak’s website reserves its
protection rights.
The Firm’s Clients
The firm represents many media, industrial, real
estate and advertising companies, and local
authorities. Clients include Industrial Buildings,
“Globes”, Government authorities in Kyrgyzstan,
News1 website, Russian newspapers - “Globus”
and “Sputnik”, Or Yehuda-Azor Planning and
Construction Commission, Israel Broadcasting
Authority, Migdal/Shamgar Insurance, ONeil Con-
struction, Ituran, Club Hotel, Azur Local Council,
T.N.T. Express Worldwide (Israel) Ltd., G Systems
Solar Systems Ltd., E.F.I Nativ Development Ltd.,
Oil and Energy Industry Co., Power Card, CTV,
Muse, Haifa Port Ltd., Netanya Municipality, Jeru-
salem Post, Charlton and more.
The firm receives ongoing consultancy fromMusz-
kat Consultantsmanaged by Daniel Muszkat LL.B.,
who has extensive experience in international
deals, recruiting investors and financing bodies
and creating interaction between them. Daniel
Muszkat served as an authorized agent of theMul-
tilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a
member of the World Bank Group with an experi-
enced background in international deals. He pro-
motes deals for investors in developing countries
while reducing risks including political risks.
l i n e o f b u s i n ess
Libel & Media, Litigation,
Civil, Commercial &
Administrative Law, Real
Estate Law, Labor Law,
Planning & Construction,
Commercial Real Estate,
IP, Local Authority Law,
Representation & Support of
Int’l Deals
משרד עורכי דיןי. מ ו ש ק ט,
Y. MUSZKAT, LAW OFFICES
85 Yehuda Halevi St., Tel Aviv 6579614
Tel: 972-3-5662038
Fax: 972-3-5609882
Orian Eshkoli
Yahalom
Partner
Menachem Avraham
Lawyer
Shira Reich
Lawyer
Daniel Muszkat
Consultant
Yoram Muszkat
Founder & Senior
Partner *
Sharon Spinat Searay
Lawyer
* See Top Executives Profiles - Page 582