Bituah Leumi to Recalculate Payments: Israeli to Receive Large Supplement

A court in Be'er Sheva ordered Bituah Leumi to pay an additional 13,658.72 shekels to a man injured in hostilities. The agency paid less than its own tables required for seven months. The judge accepted the plaintiff's calculations, rejecting claims for the remaining period and compensation for moral damage.

The Regional Labor Court in Be'er Sheva ordered Bituah Leumi to pay a man injured in hostilities an additional 13,658.72 shekels gross. The court found that for seven months, from September 2024 to March 2025, the agency paid him less than its own calculation tables required. According to the tables, a person with the corresponding disability degree and children was entitled to 7,566.71 shekels monthly, but he actually received about 5,615 shekels, a difference of nearly two thousand shekels per month. Bituah Leumi did not provide the court with an explanation for the discrepancy, so Judge Yael Engelberg Shoham accepted the plaintiff's calculations. Initially, the agency's committees rejected the man's claim, but after he turned to the court, it recognized his right to retroactive payments. The claim for compensation for the remaining period (April-December 2025) was rejected because since March 2025 the man declared income as self-employed. The claim for 50,000 shekels for moral damage was also rejected, with each party covering its own costs. The agency was given 30 days to transfer the money.