Orly and Guy (photo: Yossi Tsbaker) (photo Yossi Tsbaker)
The TV presenters, the couple Orly Vilnai and Guy Maroz, won the language lawsuit they filed. The Magistrate’s Court in Bat Yam ruled in their favor, and the surfer Nechama Drab-Berkovic will be forced to pay them a sum of NIS 40,000: NIS 25,000 in compensation and NIS 15,000 in fees. This is according to David Rosenthal’s publication on the Walla website.
The defendant published critical posts against Orli and Guy, including derogatory epithets against them. The couple shared about the procedures they went through on the way to becoming a foster family, and the defendant wrote, “Gyush and Orly really wanted a child. They gave up their children and left them with the previous couple. So welfare gave them a black child. Gyush and Orly declared that they would fight the parents if necessary in order for the child to remain in their possession. Then the cannon Yossi Necker got up and found the mother. ‘Our child’ returned to his natural place. His mother gave him birth. Gyosh and Orly ‘lost’ our ‘child’. Now they are trying to accuse Yossi Necker of libel for publishing what they themselves told to all the people of Israel .”
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After these words, the couple sent a warning letter before a lawsuit, saying that the words constitute defamation. In the letter, they demanded the removal of the advertisement along with an apology and payment of compensation. The defendant was not moved, and added to the first publication, “Will the celebrity couple appear in court? Since when are foster parents a party to a legal proceeding??? As stated Joseph Zernik They are urinating on the law.”
The defendant claimed in court that this claim is a “silencing claim”. One that was filed against her only to deter her, criticizes the conduct of the plaintiffs. Judge Ronan Ilan from the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court rejected this claim, noting that its first publication is a mockery and humiliation of the couple, and tries to present the plaintiffs as immoral, as those who gave up their own children.
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After that, he stated that there is defamation in the things she wrote. And also in the words in the second publication, “peeing in a bow on the law”, there is a sense of defamation.
Attorney Yael Mendelovitz, who represented Orli and Guy in the five lawsuits they won: “The court clearly stated that the blood of celebrities is not in vain, there is room for criticism, but unbridled rampage and defamation campaigns are invalid against any person. Celebrities have the right to defend their name The best especially when they are subjected to an attack on their personal lives and the lives of their children and family. It is better that the heroes of the keyboard realize that there is a price for unbridled slanders and this evil phenomenon must be stopped.”
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