The case happened two years ago when the young woman reached a 63-year-old professional massager and was assaulted and raped.

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A young woman who has been assaulted and raped by a professional masseur and as a result has been given her 40 percent disability, a distribution of NIS 40,000 from her insurance company, Harel. This is after activating her personal accident policy, and the company acknowledged the incident as an accident. 

The case happened two years ago when the young woman arrived at Shlomo Harel, a 63-year-old professional masseur, for a paid massage. 

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But at the time of the massage, Harel committed an indecent act, a rape, and a sodomy act, without her consent, while stunned by his actions and frozen. When the defendant clutched her hands forcefully and again committed an indecent act, she told him that she wanted to go and began to tremble and cry.

Earlier this year, the Be'er Sheva District Court sentenced the masseur to three years in prison, after being convicted of Inos offenses, sodomy and indecent acts. The verdict also stipulated that Harel would compensate the complainant for NIS 50,000. He emphatically denied the offenses. 

Following that case, 40 percent of disability were determined for the victim, and she contacted Advocate Keren Barak, along with the civil lawsuit against Hance, to also recognize the insurance company as an accident under the personal accident policy she owns. "NIS 40,000." My client had been brutally raped in a way that left her post-traumatized, "Adv. Barak concluded.