Penal Law, 5737-1977

One who compels a person by force or threats, or entices a person by means of deceit, to leave the place where that person is found, commits kidnapping and is liable to imprisonment for ten years.

One who takes a person beyond the borders of the state in which that person is present without the consent of that person or of the person legally authorised to consent on that person's behalf is liable to imprisonment for ten years.

One who kidnaps a person with intent that the person be unlawfully imprisoned is liable to imprisonment for twenty years.

One who kidnaps a person in order to murder that person or in order to place that person in danger of murder, or who kidnaps a person in order to extort or threaten, is liable to imprisonment for twenty years.

One who kidnaps a person in order that the person shall be subjected to grievous bodily harm, and one who kidnaps a person in the knowledge that the person kidnapped will be placed in such a situation, are each liable to imprisonment for twenty years.

One who kidnaps a person for any of the purposes enumerated in section 377a(a) or in order thereby to place that person in any of the dangers enumerated in that section is liable to imprisonment for twenty years.

One who unlawfully conceals or imprisons a person knowing that the person has been kidnapped is liable as if that person had kidnapped the individual with the same intent, knowledge or purpose as that person had in concealing or imprisoning the individual.

One who unlawfully compels a person to work, through the use of force or other means of pressure or by threatening to use any of these, or through consent obtained by deceit, whether with remuneration or without – is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

One who unlawfully withholds in his possession a passport, travel document or identity card of another person is liable to imprisonment for three years; one who does so for any of the purposes enumerated in section 377a(a) or who thereby places the person in any of the dangers enumerated in that section is liable to imprisonment for five years.

One who unlawfully detains or imprisons a person is liable to three years' imprisonment; if the person detained them while pretending to hold official status or purporting to have an Order, the person is liable to five years' imprisonment.

Where a person is convicted of an offence under section 375a or 377a, and the court has not awarded compensation to the victim under section 77, the court shall set out in the sentence its reasons for not awarding compensation as aforesaid.

"Combating Criminal Organisations Law" means the Combating Criminal Organisations Law, 5763-2003;

"victim of an offence" means a person directly harmed by the offence, and also a family member of a person whose death was caused by the offence;

"offence" means the offence of keeping in conditions of slavery under section 375a and the offence of trafficking in persons under section 377a;

"property" and "property connected to an offence" have the meanings assigned to them in the Combating Criminal Organisations Law.

One who strikes a person, touches that person, pushes that person or applies force to that person's body in any other manner, directly or indirectly, without that person's consent or with consent obtained by deceit — this constitutes assault; and for this purpose, the application of force includes the application of heat, light, electricity, gas, odour or any other thing or substance, if applied to a degree capable of causing harm or discomfort.

One who unlawfully assaults another is liable to two years' imprisonment, provided that no other penalty has been prescribed in this Law for this offence by reason of its circumstances.

One who assaults another and thereby causes that person actual bodily harm is liable to three years' imprisonment.

"emergency worker" means a physician, intern, nurse, midwife, paramedic, a person performing a function in Magen David Adom or another person performing a function in an emergency room;

"physician", "intern", "midwife" and "emergency room" have the meanings assigned to them in the Patients' Rights Law, 5756-1996;

"Magen David Adom" means the Magen David Adom Society in Israel, established under the Magen David Adom Law, 5710-1950.

One who steals is liable to three years' imprisonment, provided that no other penalty has been prescribed for theft by reason of its circumstances or by reason of the nature of the thing stolen.

One who receives, alone or with another, money or a security, or a power of attorney to sell, pledge or charge (as a security interest) an asset or to deal with it in any other manner, whether capable of being stolen or not, all pursuant to an instruction that the money or the asset or the proceeds or income thereof shall be applied in whole or in part to a specified purpose or paid to a specified person as set out in the instruction — the money or the proceeds shall be regarded as the property of the person for whose benefit the money, the security or the power of attorney was received, until the instruction has been fulfilled.

One who receives, alone or with another, money on behalf of a particular person — the money shall be regarded as the property of the person on whose behalf it was received, unless the money was given on the condition that it be an item in a debit-and-credit account and that as regards the money the relationship between the parties shall be that of debtor and creditor only.

One who receives, alone or with another, property from another person under authority to sell it or to deal with it in any other manner, and to pay to the person who delivered the property or to another person the proceeds of the property or part thereof, or to deliver to them the proceeds in exchange for the property or to account to them therefor — the proceeds of the property and the proceeds in exchange for it shall be regarded as the property of the person from whom the property was received until the property has been dealt with in accordance with the terms of its receipt, unless the authority included a direction whereby the proceeds of the property shall be an item in a debit-and-credit account between the said agent and the person to whom the agent is required to pay them or to account therefor, and that as regards such proceeds the relationship between them shall be that of debtor and creditor only.

A public servant who steals a thing that is property of the State or a thing that came into his hands by virtue of his employment, and whose value exceeds one thousand New Shekels, is liable to ten years' imprisonment.

An employee who steals a thing that is the property of his employer, or that came into the employee's possession on behalf of his employer, and whose value exceeds NIS 1,000, shall be liable to seven years' imprisonment.

A member of a board of directors or an office holder of a corporation who steals a thing that is property of the corporation is liable to seven years' imprisonment.

One who does any of the following is liable to seven years' imprisonment: