Penal Law, 5737-1977

One who conspires with another to fraudulently or dishonestly influence the market price of anything sold publicly, or to defraud the public or any person, or to extort property from a person, is liable to imprisonment for three years.

One who falsely represents himself as another person, living or dead, with intent to defraud, is liable to imprisonment for three years; if he represented himself as a person entitled under a will or by law to a particular asset and did so in order to obtain that asset or possession thereof, he is liable to imprisonment for five years.

One who acknowledges, in the name of another person, a liability or any document in a court or before a person lawfully authorised to receive such an acknowledgement, and is unable to prove authorisation or lawful justification, is liable to imprisonment for three years.

A certificate issued by a competent authority to another person and attesting that that person has a legally recognised qualification in a particular matter, or that he holds a particular office, or that he is entitled to practise a particular profession, trade or business, or that he is entitled to a particular right, privilege, rank or status — anyone who produces such a certificate and falsely represents himself as the person named therein is liable as if he had forged it.

One to whom a competent authority has issued a certificate attesting to him all as stated in section 443, who sells, gives or lends the certificate to another with intent that the other may represent himself as the person named in the certificate, is liable to imprisonment for three years.

One who produces another person's character certificate in order to obtain employment is liable to imprisonment for one year.

One to whom a character certificate has been issued, who sells, gives or lends it to another with intent that the other may produce the certificate in order to obtain employment, is liable to imprisonment for three years.

One who by negligence causes the burning of property that is not his own, or who by negligence causes a risk of fire to property that is not his own, is liable to imprisonment for three years.

One who does any of the following is liable to imprisonment for fifteen years:

One who wilfully and unlawfully kills an animal that is capable of being stolen, or maims, wounds or administers poison to it, is liable to imprisonment for three years.

One who wilfully and unlawfully destroys or damages property is liable to imprisonment for three years, unless another penalty has been prescribed.

One who commits an offence as referred to in section 452 by means of an explosive substance is liable to imprisonment for fifteen years, provided that a person was present at the scene of the act or that the destruction or damage actually endangered human life.

One who commits an offence as referred to in section 452 in respect of a written will, whether the testator is living or dead, or in respect of a register which there is legal authority or obligation to maintain for the purpose of authenticating or registering ownership of property, or for the purpose of registering births, baptisms, marriages, deaths or burials, or in respect of a copy of part of such a register which is required by law to be sent to a public office, is liable to imprisonment for five years.

One who unlawfully places an explosive substance in any place with intent to destroy property or to damage it is liable to imprisonment for fifteen years.

One who wilfully and unlawfully causes an animal that is capable of being stolen to be infected with a contagious disease is liable to imprisonment for five years.

One who wilfully, unlawfully and with intent to defraud removes or obliterates an object or mark that has been lawfully placed to indicate the boundary of real property is liable to imprisonment for three years.

One who sends a letter or note containing, to his knowledge, a threat to burn or destroy a house, barn or other building, or agricultural produce, or a vessel, motor vehicle or aircraft, or a threat to kill or harm an animal, is liable to imprisonment for three years; and one who delivers or issues such a letter or note, or directly or indirectly causes it to be received, is liable to the same punishment as one who sends it.

"Banknote", for the purposes of this Section, means any note or bill of exchange issued by a bank in Israel, including the Bank of Israel, or by a person or corporation carrying on banking business anywhere in the world, and a blank banknote and bill of exchange and any currency note that is legal tender in Israel or in the country in which it was issued.

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

One who does any of the following and is unable to prove lawful authority or justification is liable to imprisonment for five years:

One who issues a banknote without lawful authority is liable to imprisonment for five years.

One who knowingly obliterates, tears, cuts or otherwise defaces a currency note that is legal tender in Israel is liable to imprisonment for three months.

One who makes or issues anything that is not a currency note but is essentially similar to a currency note that is legal tender in Israel is liable to a fine of five hundred lira.

Every forged or imitated banknote, and every thing as described in section 467, found in the possession of a person convicted of making or issuing it, shall be ordered by the court to be forfeited, without compensation to the holder, and upon forfeiture shall be destroyed or otherwise dealt with, all as the Minister of Justice may direct.

In this Section —

"coin" means a metallic coin, of any type and value, lawfully in circulation in Israel or in another country;

"metal" includes any alloy or fusion of metals;

"counterfeit coin" means a coin that is not genuine but resembles a genuine coin, or is capable of passing as one or being accepted in its place, including a genuine coin that has been altered so as to resemble a coin of higher value, or so as to be capable of passing as one or being accepted in its place, and including a genuine coin that has been clipped, filed or otherwise reduced in size or weight and altered so as to conceal the clipping, filing or reduction, all regardless of whether the coin was in a condition fit for issue or not and whether the process of alteration was complete or not;

"gold or silver coin" means a coin of gold or silver;

"base coin" means a coin that is not a gold or silver coin;

"gilding" and "silvering", in relation to a coin, include giving the appearance of gold or silver by any other means;

"fitter" means one who makes, fits, begins to make or to fit, or prepares for making or fitting;

"instrument" includes a machine.

One who makes or begins to make a counterfeit gold or silver coin is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

One who gilds or silvers a piece of metal that is suitable in size or shape for minting, with intent that it be minted as a counterfeit gold or silver coin, or who gives a piece of metal a size and shape suitable for facilitating the minting of such a coin with intent that it be minted, is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

One who does any of the following and is unable to prove lawful authority or justification is liable to imprisonment for seven years:

One who performs an act on a gold or silver coin in a manner capable of reducing its weight, with intent that after the act the coin shall be received as a gold or silver coin, or who unlawfully holds or transfers filings or clippings of gold or silver, or gold or silver in the form of a bar, dust, solution or any other form, obtained by such an act on a gold or silver coin, knowing that they were so obtained, is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

One who buys, sells, receives, pays with or transfers a counterfeit gold or silver coin at a value below the value it purports or apparently purports to represent, or offers to do so, and is unable to prove lawful authority or justification, is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

One who brings into Israel or receives from abroad a counterfeit gold or silver coin knowing that it is counterfeit, and is unable to prove lawful authority or justification, is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

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

One who knowingly removes from the State mint a die, mould, instrument or printer used in coining, or a part thereof fit for use, or a coin, ingot or metal, and is unable to prove lawful authorisation or justification, is liable to seven years' imprisonment.

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

One who obliterates the image on a coin by stamping a name or word on it, or who wilfully melts down a coin, is liable to one year's imprisonment.

One who utters any of the following as a genuine coin, with intent to defraud, is liable to three years' imprisonment:

One who knowingly exports a counterfeit coin or knowingly places it in a vessel or vehicle for the purpose of its being exported, and is unable to prove lawful authorisation or justification, is liable to three years' imprisonment.

A State employee, an employee of the Bank of Israel or an employee of a bank who receives a banknote or coin that the employee has reasonable ground to believe is counterfeit shall seize it and deliver it forthwith to the police; the police, after performing any action or investigation it considers useful, shall transfer it to the Bank of Israel; if the Governor of the Bank of Israel determines that the banknote or coin is counterfeit, he may cut, obliterate or destroy it, whether with or without payment of compensation.