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The company claimed that the delay in delivery was due to the coronavirus – and was obligated to pay compensation of hundreds of thousands of shekels

The District Court mostly accepted the appeal of Modi’in tenants against Silbermintz for delay in the delivery of apartments, and increased the amount of compensation determined by the Magistrate Court from thousands of shekels to tens of thousands of shekels per plaintiff. “The phrase coronavirus crisis is not magic words.”

Adv. Hila Goldfeld, partner in the Litigation Department at Weksler Bregman & Co., explains that the ruling is consistent with case law in Israel, with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic, and similarly, with regard to situations of war and military operations. “The courts have not automatically recognized non-payment of compensation for late delivery in these circumstances, and have ruled that the causal relationship between the pandemic (or, respectively, the war or operation) and the alleged delay or disruption in the schedule, must be examined, even if there is no dispute that there is overlap in the schedule, between construction and the period of the epidemic, or the fighting.

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