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Victims of Hostilities

certifying authority (154)
The certifying authority is the body appointed by the Minister of Defense to decide whether or not the person's injury meets the definition set down in the Hostile Action Casualties Law. If so, the person is recognized as a hostile-act injured person. Only after the certifying authority has decided that the injury is in fact a hostile-act related injury will the National Insurance Institute handle the case.
hostile action injury (103)
One of the following: – injury from hostile action by enemy forces; – unintentional injury by a person as a result of hostile action by enemy forces or unintentional injury in circumstances in which there were reasonable grounds for assuming that a hostile action would be perpetrated; – injury from a weapon designated for a hostile action of enemy forces or injury from a weapon designated against such hostile action, even if not used, except for an injury in which a person aged 18 or over was injured while carrying out a crime or transgression with malice or criminal negligence; – injury from a violent act, the main aim of which is to injure a person due to his national/ethnic origin, on condition that the act results from the Israeli-Arab conflict; – injury from a violent act, the main aim of which is to injure a person due to his national/ethnic origin, carried out by a terrorist organization.
relative (104)
A relative of a person who was killed in a hostile action: his/her spouse, child (see “General Definitions”), parent, and under certain circumstances, brother or sister.
spouse (105)
Includes a person who was the common-law¬spouse of the person killed in the hostile action at the time of his/her death, as long as he/she does not remarry.