Application to certify a class action against Bank Leumi, filed in August 2024. According to the application, the bank denies permanent residents of Israel of opening and managing a Pepper account (a fully-mobile, commission-free account), solely due to their status. The plaintiff, a permanent resident from East Jerusalem, claims that the bank has no right to provide the service to Israeli citizens and to deny it from permanent residents. This behaviour constitutes a violation of the bank`s duties and an unlawful discrimination.

The plaintiff demands the bank to allow permanent residents to open and manage Pepper accounts, and to compensate the class members.

Our office represents the applicant together with Sawsan Zaher from the Human Rights Clinic at Tel Aviv University.

Status: Application is pending.

Documents: Application to Certify the Class Action.

Application to certify a class action against M.A. Automates, one of the leading companies in the vending machines market in Israel. The application was filed in May 2022. 

According to the application, the company violates its duty to make its vending machines accessible to handicapped, short and blind people. The applicants demand that the company fulfills its duty and compensates the class members.

Status: Application to certify the class action is pending.

Documents: Application to Certify the Class Action.

Application to certify a class action against the operator of taxi services, filed in February 2020. According to the application, the company features a service named "Gett Mehadrin" in Jerusalem, which offers taxis that are not driven on Sabbath. The service is supposedly designed for observant jews. The applicants claim that this service is in fact a cover for a discriminatory practice against arabs, creating a service purely for jewish users and drivers. The claimants demand the termination of the service and a compensation for the users and drivers who were discriminated.

Our office represents the applicants, together with Orly Erez-Likhovski and Miri Nahmias-Yassaf, from the Israel Religious Action Center.

In May 2023 the parties reached a settlement agreement. According to the settlement, the company will shut down "GETT Mehadrin", and pay NIS 6 million, a majority of the sum will be paid to arab drivers operating in Jerusalem.

Status: Motion to approve the settlement is pending.

Documents: Application to Certify the Class Action, Motion to Approve Settlement.

Application to certify a class action against Casponet Ltd., a company which dominates the ATM market in Israel. The application was filed in August 2018. According to the application, Casponet violates its duty to make the ATMs accessible to handicapped, short and blind people. The applicant demands that Casponet to fulfill its duty and to compensate the class members.

In September 2021 the class action was certified.

Status: Class action is pending.

Documents: Application to Certify the Class Action, Certification Decision.

Application to certify a class action, against four hospitals, filed in May 2018. The application was filed on behalf of arab women who gave birth in the hospitals. According to the application, those arab women were segregated from other women and admitted to separate rooms, without any medical justification. The applicants demand that the segregation stops and that compensation is paid to the women who suffered the discrimination.

We represent the applicants, together with Doctor Shay Lavie and Noa Melzer Chernobroda of the Tel Aviv University Class Action Law Clinic.

Status: Application to certify the class action is pending.

Documents: Application to Certify the Class Action.

A class action filed on behalf of family members of deceased persons born in the former Soviet Union, who were buried in Sgula and Yarkon cemeteries. According to the application, for over a decade, the Chevra Kadisha has been discriminating against Jewish deceased persons born in the former soviet union, by segregating their burial plots from the remainder of the cemetery. In certain cases, fences were erected to separate said plots. The applicants demand that the segregation stops and that compensation is paid to the family members.

In June 2021 the class action was certified.

In August 2024 the court upheld the class action, and ruled that the defendants will compensate the class members with NIS 4.2 million. Both parties appealed to the Supreme Court.

We represent the applicants, together with Doctor Shay Lavie and Noa Melzer Chernobroda of the Tel Aviv University Class Action Law Clinic.

Status: Appeals on the final Judgement are pending.

Documents: Application to Certify the Class Action, Certification Decision, Final Judgement, Plaintiffs` Appeal.

Аврукин против Хевра Кадиша

Представительский иск против похоронного общества "Хевра Кадиша" города Петах-Тиква и его руководства от имени родственников ныне усопших граждан, выходцев из бывшего Советского Союза, и похороненных на кладбищах "Сгула" и "Яркон" в Петах-Тикве.

В заявлении утверждается, что на протяжении более десяти лет похоронное общество "Хевра Кадиша" города Петах-Тиква дискриминирует еврейских усопших, выходцев из бывшего Советского Союза, хороня их отдельно от других покойных. Заявители требуют немедленного прекращения политики раздельных захоронений и компенсации членам семей усопших.

В августе 2024 года суд удовлетворил иск, постановив, что похоронное общество и его руководство должны выплатить родственникам усопших компенсацию в размере около 4.3 миллионов шекелей. На решение суда была подана апелляция.

Наш офис представляет истцов совместно с доктором Шай Н. Лави и адвокатом Ноа Мелцер-Черноброда из клиники представительных  исков юридического факультета Тель-Авивского университета.

Стороны заявили, что намерены подать апелляцию.

Документы: Просьба о разрешении на подачу представительского иска; решение о признании иска представительным; решение суда.