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Law Firms - Criminal Law
Ariel Atari Law Firm
T he Ariel Atari Law Firm has earned a
prestigious reputation in Israel’s legal
world through legal innovation and
consistently struggling to strengthen the rights
of the accused in Israel criminal law; a struggle
that combined with his major experience and
successes in representing clients – has con-
solidated the firm’s standing in Israeli criminal
law. Adv. Atari has been appearing in criminal
cases since 1989. Today Ariel Atari is a criminal
lawyer of great experience acquired by handling
and appearing in thousands of criminal cases
in all courts. His success is reflected in exten-
sive publicity and given his extensive experi-
ence, he has also been invited to interviews as
a legal commentator in criminal matters by the
media. Adv. Atari has recorded a large number
of precedents, acquittals, releases, indictment
cancellations, and successes in criminal law
in all courts. Adv. Atari strives to develop the
growing trends of protecting civilian rights and
promoting the status of basic rights in criminal
law. In every instance that a person claims to be
innocent, Adv. Atari sees himself as bound to act
for his rights, and reaching a plea bargain will
always be a last resort and taken only at a cli-
ent’s request when all other avenues have been
exhausted. Adv. Ariel Atari is a graduate of the
Noam Religious College. Soon after graduating
with honors he studied at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, and after success-
fully completing his law degree, he joined the
IDF. He served in the Judea and Samaria Legal
Advisor’s Office and subsequently for several
years as a Prosecutor in the Military Attorney’s
Office.
Practice Areas
For more than 25 years, Adv. Atari has been
dealing with all areas of criminal law, appear-
ing in criminal and disciplinary proceedings in
all courts and handling all types of offenses
including white collar offenses, fraud, deceit
and breach of trust, money laundering, forgery,
bribery, sexual offenses of all degrees from sex-
ual harassment and indecent acts; including
rape and sodomy, drug offenses and violence;
from assault through abuse to manslaughter
and murder, tax offenses, disciplinary offenses,
and military offenses and extradition matters,
and youth. The firm’s handling begins at the
interrogation stage and arrest and continues
through hearings proceedings, criminal pro-
ceedings, and appeal.
The Firm’s Clients
Among the firm’s clients are known figures such
as Yitzhak Drori (The Brain), Elior Chen “the Ma-
gician,” Eliahu Arish, Yigal Amir, Bat Ayin under-
ground members, Moshe Suissa, Israel Fire and
Rescue Service Southern District Commander
and many others. The absolute majority of the
firm’s clients are normal people compelled to
cope with criminal or disciplinary proceedings
and needing appropriate legal representation.
The Firm’s Achievements
Over the decades, Adv. Atari has won an im-
pressive list of achievements and precedents
in criminal matters and represented clients who
were subject to major media coverage. The firm
is known for its uncompromising stance and
instriving to accomplish justice and the acquittal
of clients through rigorous legal work, complete
analysis of evidence, gathering evidence and
basing claims on Israeli and international law.
Consequently, recorded in the firm’s favor are
a list of outstanding achievements and prec-
edents, which serve to guide judges and law-
yers in Israel’s legal system including: a ruling
instructing the disclosure of criminal records
of prosecution witnesses to the defendant; a
ruling instructing revealing the evidence held by
third parties to support the defendant’s ability
to defend himself; a ruling that shaped, in a
precedent-setting manner, the basic misconduct
of being held in slave-conditions; the obliga-
tion of the State in granting rights to those in-
volved in semi-criminal proceedings; accepting
the self-defense claim by a defendant charged
with manslaughter for stabbing a person in the
chest six times; disqualifying an identity parade
and acquittal for attempted murder due to con-
cerns that the photograph of the accused had
been accidentally revealed; requiring the State
to reveal investigation files of those accused of
similar offenses to allow the accused to base a
claim of a policy that discriminates and enforces
selectively; imposing a prison sentence on the
accused following a private criminal complaint;
the precedent setting release from detention
of a defendant accused of 100 rape offenses,
after a process of presenting evidence for the
defendant by his attorney without the prosecu-
tor able to know its content.
The Firm’s Lawyers
Adv. Ariel Atari
•Graduate of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
• Former Military Prosecuting Officer
• Editorial Committee Member of the Jerusalem
Bar Association journal
• Participant in panels on various legal topics
• Member of the Attorney and Police Committee
of the Jerusalem Bar Association
• Invited as a legal commentator in criminal law
by the media
• Writes a range of articles on various topics in
criminal law
Adv. Moshe Polsky
• LL.B. Law (Summa Cum Laude) Ono Academic
College
• Graduate of the Hebron Religious College
Pro Bono
The firm represents clients unable to afford legal
representation in pro bono cases.
L i n e o f B u s i n ess
Criminal Law
A ss o c i at e
Moshe Polsky
42 Ben Yehuda St., Jerusalem 9458309
Tel: 972-2-6231841; 972-50-8323323
Fax: 972-2-6231851
Ariel Atari
Manager & Owner
Ariel Atari
L a w F i r m