2025-10-24
How is Uri's health? Is everything OK?
Hi Linda, hi family and friends,
Uri has sent a message to the parties and counsel in the ongoing Zernik Affair in the Haifa Family Court, stating that he is too old and too weak for "business"... and he would like to conclude the matter of the estate distribution...
Not too long ago I wrote a notice to the same parties and counsel, suggesting that the simplest, fastest way to conclude the matter is to file a motion by joint stipulation to end the proceedings and dismiss with prejudice the fake "judgment"... Already when I had received the service of the initial pleading in this case, I had given notice to the parties, to counsel and the judge that it appeared as a universal declaration to all who entered the court of the intent to conduct fake court proceedings, as defined in Texas Penal Code § 32.48, "Simulating Legal Process". We could go back to the August 2023 Agreement for the Estate Distribution among the 3 of us, in which I gave up much of what I was entitled to, since my #1 priority was to avoid entering a corrupt Israeli court. After all, in 2018, my latest report on the Israeli courts was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council and incorporated by reference as a paragraph in the final UN report on Israel, which concluded that "the integrity and validity of any court record from Israel is dubious at best."
A few weeks after they filed the case in court, I again offered a further compromise, trying to avoid this ugly spectacle: They (Uri, Dror, and their counsel) hold the funds; to this date, they have not provided me a valid financial report, as prescribed by law. I asked them (and formally filed it in court) to make any offer, I would seriously consider taking it, and they would never hear from me again. They responded with a strange notice, also filed in court, stating that they would consider my request only after the court appointed them as Estate Administrators. That was bizarre and obvious at the same time. The two esteemed attorneys asked the Haifa Family Court to be appointed "Estate Administrators", while Supreme Court rulings say that the family courts should use common sense and NOT appoint as Estate Administrator a person who is tightly linked with one party, when there is a dispute among the parties and difficulties in communication... The court should, in such cases, appoint an external, neutral Estate Administrator...
Uri responded with an even stranger message, bordering on the pathological, saying that our mother wanted it this way, since the court action kept the family ties; otherwise, there would be none...
Uri is being too modest, trying to give up his claim to fame. Mr Uri Zernik is the Plaintiff; in his name, the last ugly chapter of court corruption was initiated in June 2024. There is a series of email messages from that time, in which Uri tried to convince me that his counsel, Yoav Salomon, was "straight as an arrow and a mensch" [words to be remembered by --"ישר כסרגל -- ואנושי"] and in fact is "part of the family," just like Dror's counsel, Rachel Ben-Ari, that Salomon represented my interests as well... that it was too bad that I didn't trust them, and that my paranoia was taking over again...
That humorous piece was written just a couple of weeks after I had dismissed my counsel, Yair Shiber, after catching him secretly forwarding to Uri's counsel, Yoav Salomon, in response to Salomon's repeated requests, a false "Consent" by me, without my knowledge, without my consent, and with no authority at all. Salomon immediately filed it in court. It looked like Mssrs Salomon and Shiber had been conspiring against me for several months by then, starting when Shiber's conduct had suddenly become inexplicable and I had stopped seeking his counsel.
Uri's achievement is far beyond a family matter. I claim that nothing like this has ever been reported in Israel (mind you, I am an internationally recognzied
On July 30, 2025, I appeared before the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee and provided a short opinion, the core of which was: "In the Family Courts, we see characteristics of organized crime." I primarily based my opinion on materials that I had published from the Jerusalem Family Court. The documentation that we have by now jointly generated, in the Zernik Affair in the Haifa Family Court is by far superior.
I am scheduled to appear again before that committee next Monday, October 27. I am now tightly affiliated with the ruling coalition in the Committee. Opposition MK, Attorney, Rabbi Gilad Kariv, a member of the "good ones" (I am too old, I can't remember the names of the parties, they change all the time, and anyway, I stopped voting some 50 years ago), almost had a heart attack. I noticed how moved he was, so I approached him at the end of the hearing, trying to shake his hand. He ran away, literally, through a side door, as if he faced the devil incarnate, yelling: "I have nothing to talk with you about, there is a limit to what one may say about our judges"...
All the best,
Sefi
P.S., I can't think of any figure in the Israeli legal landscape who has had more flattering media coverage than Rachel Ben Ari. She usually presents it as a family package, "90 years of legal excellence," referring back to her father, a notable Haifa attorney, and her grandfather, a Haifa attorney as well, and an MK in Knessets 1-5 (for Mapai, Ben Gurion's ruling party; in her acclaimed biography of Simon Agranat, Israeli Supreme Court Presiding Justice, US(BU)-Israeli law professor Pnina Lahav described the regime during that period as "Czarist-Bolshevik").
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