News - The Director General of the National Insurance Institute, Esther Dominissini: “Implementing more severe punishments is a central factor in deterring people to try to deceive the National Insurance Institute.”

This citizen claimed that when standing at a construction site, he slipped from the second floor of the site and required medical treatment. An investigation showed that he actually fell and was injured in a police chase; he was suspect of carrying out an offensive act against a young woman employed in his household. He was later put on trial for this offense and convicted. He was further put on trial for receiving a benefit fraudulently from the NII in grave circumstances.  

On April 23, 2009, he was convicted in the Kiryat Gat court, and the judge, Tali Haimovitz, determined in her judgment that the transgression against the NII was “a severe transgression which harms the entire public….it causes serious damage to the public fund as well as to those who are in real need of money, and therefore those who commit such a transgression should be severely punished, in order to deter them and to relay a message of deterrence to the public.”