Penal Law, 5737-1977

In this Section —

"racism" means persecution, humiliation, degradation, display of enmity, hostility or violence, or causing strife against a public or parts of the population, all on account of colour or membership of a race or of national-ethnic origin;

"published" — (Repealed)

One who possesses, for the purpose of distribution, a publication prohibited under section 144b so as to bring about racism is liable to imprisonment for one year, and the publication shall be forfeited.

One who possesses, for the purpose of distribution, a publication prohibited under section 144d2 is liable to imprisonment for one year, and the publication shall be forfeited.

An indictment under this Section shall not be filed except with the written consent of the Attorney General.

A prohibited association, for the purposes of this Section, is —

One who advocates or encourages, by speech, in writing or in any other manner, the carrying out of any of the prohibited acts under section 145 is liable to imprisonment for three years.

A person who has attained the age of sixteen years and is a member of a prohibited association, and a person who holds or acts in an office or position therein, or acts as its representative, or serves as a teacher in an institution or school managed or purportedly managed under the management or supervision of a prohibited association, is liable to imprisonment for one year.

One who pays membership fees or contributes to a prohibited association or to its account, and one who solicits any of the foregoing, are liable to imprisonment for six months.

One who makes, prints, publishes or transmits by post a publication of a prohibited association, or on its behalf or for its benefit, is liable to imprisonment for six months.

An indictment for offences under sections 145 to 149 shall not be filed except by the Attorney General or with his consent.

Three or more persons who have assembled for the purpose of committing an offence, or who have assembled for a common purpose, even a lawful one, and conduct themselves in a manner that gives persons in the vicinity reasonable grounds to fear that the persons assembled will commit an act that will disturb the peace, or that by the very act of their assembly they will provoke other persons, without need or sufficient cause, to disturb the peace — this is an unlawful assembly, and a participant in an unlawful assembly is liable to imprisonment of one year.

An unlawful assembly in which the execution of its purpose has begun by a breach of the peace of a kind likely to inspire terror in the public is a riot, and a participant in a riot is liable to imprisonment of two years.

A district commissioner, a district officer, or a Magistrate's Court judge, and in their absence a police officer of the rank of sub-inspector or above, who sees three or more persons rioting, or apprehends that they are about to riot, may, after announcing his presence by sounding a trumpet, blowing a whistle, or any similar means, or by firing a flare from a pistol, order them to disperse quietly.

If, after a reasonable time following the announcement and order given under section 153, or after the giving of the announcement or order has been prevented by force, persons in the said number continue to riot, any person authorised to give such announcement and order, or any police officer, or any person assisting them, may do whatever is necessary to disperse those who continue to riot or to arrest them; and if any person resists arrest, the person authorised may use such force as is reasonably necessary to overcome the resistance, and in any criminal or civil proceedings shall not be liable if he caused harm or death to a person or damage to property.

Where an announcement and an order to disperse have been given to rioters or to persons assembled for the purpose of rioting and a reasonable time has elapsed after the giving of the announcement and order — every person who participates or continues to participate in that assembly or riot is liable to imprisonment of five years.

One who prevents or obstructs, by force, the giving of the announcement or the order to disperse is liable to imprisonment of five years, and any person who knows that the giving of the announcement or order was prevented by force and who participates in the assembly or riot is liable to imprisonment of three years.

Rioters who unlawfully cause damage to a building, a ship, a railway, machinery, a structure, a telegraph line, an electric line, a pipeline, or a water-supply pipe — each of them is liable to imprisonment of seven years; and if they demolished or destroyed, or began to demolish or destroy, any of the said things, the penalty is imprisonment of ten years.

Rioters who unlawfully and by force prevent or obstruct the loading or unloading or the departure or navigation of a vessel, or who unlawfully and by force board a vessel with intent to do any of the said acts, are liable to imprisonment of three years.

One who sends, places, or delivers to another a substance or object purporting to endanger a person's life or body, in circumstances likely to cause panic in the public or a breach of public order, is liable to imprisonment of six months or the fine referred to in section 61(a)(4).

Where the Government has found that there are serious disturbances in labour relations that endanger or harm the economy of the country or trade with foreign states, it may declare a state of emergency for the purposes of this section, and for as long as the declaration has not been revoked, any person who participates in a lockout or a strike in work relating to the carriage of goods or the conveyance of passengers through business or commerce in Israel or between Israel and foreign states, or to the provision of a public service in Israel, and any person who incites, assists, or encourages such a lockout or strike or its continuation, is liable to imprisonment of one year.

One who does any of the following acts by injuring the person or property of another, or by threatening or intimidating him, or by means of a boycott or a threat of a boycott against him or his property and without any reasonable cause or justification for the boycott, is liable to imprisonment of three years; and the acts are:

An indictment for offences under sections 160 or 161 shall not be filed except by the Attorney General or with his consent.

One who unlawfully does any of the acts enumerated below in order to compel another to do what he is not legally obliged to do, or to refrain from doing what he is entitled to do, is liable to imprisonment of one year:

"labour dispute" means a dispute between employers and employees or between employees and employees, regarding the giving or withholding of employment, or an employment agreement, or the conditions of employment of an employee, excluding a dispute one of the causes of which is the objection of employees to the employment of other employees on grounds of race, religion, or language;

"employee" means any person employed in a craft or industry by the employer with whom the labour dispute exists or by another employer;

"corporation" means any association registered under the Ottoman Associations Law or under the Co-operative Societies Ordinance or under the Companies Ordinance, one of whose objects is the regulation of relations between employees and employers, between employees and employees, or between employers and employers.

One who, within the territory of the State, attempts to organise, prepare, assist, or facilitate any attempt made in a foreign state to overthrow by acts of violence the governmental order of that state is liable to imprisonment of ten years.

One who seeks to incite acts of hostility against the government of a friendly state, by a speech in a public place or at a public assembly or by publication, is liable to imprisonment of three years.

One who publicly hauls down or destroys a flag or symbol of a friendly state, or does any other act to harm them, all with intent to express hostility or contempt towards that state, is liable to imprisonment of three years.

One who publishes, without justification or excuse that would have been accepted in proceedings for defamation of a private individual, a publication likely to degrade, insult, or expose to hatred or contempt a king, president, ruler, ambassador, or any other dignitary of a foreign state, is liable to a fine; and if the publication is likely or intended to disturb the peace and friendship between Israel and another state — the penalty is imprisonment of three years.