Security Guard Sentenced to Prison for Pushing 78-Year-Old Man at Licensing Bureau

A security guard at the Ramat Gan licensing bureau was sentenced to four months in prison after being convicted of pushing a 78-year-old man, who fell and was injured. The court sharply criticized the guard for not helping the elderly man after the fall. He was also given a two-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay 3,000 shekels in compensation.

The defense asked to consider that the guard is a young man with no criminal record and a discharged soldier, but the guard refused to appear before the community service supervisor and claimed he was wrongly convicted. In addition to the prison term, he was given a two-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay 3,000 shekels in compensation to the elderly man. The judge noted that had the prosecution not limited the compensation amount, he would have awarded a higher sum.