Justice Noam Sohlberg ruled that attributing to Netanyahu and his associates affiliation with a criminal organization is absurd to the point of negating that it is defamation. "It seems that these things are far enough from reality that a common person will not read them at face value," the judge reasoned.
Zohar sued the association for NIS 140,<> but was rejected in the Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court. His appeal to the district court was accepted and he was awarded compensation of ten thousand shekels.