In the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, hair testing has been one of the main evidence in many of the rape cases.

• Rape drug // illustration photo: GettyImages

The case that led to yesterday's pre-trial ruling began in an indictment filed against Shmuel Ben Abu (58), a resident of Even Menahem in the Western Galilee.



Ben Abu, convicted of denial of objection, fraudulently accepting aggravated circumstances, extortion, theft, taking of assets for extortion, violation of privacy and prohibition against money laundering - all were committed in 2016-2015.



In the indictment, he was attributed, among other things, to sex offenses committed in various women, and in one case even utilizing the rape drug to a woman in favor of committing lewd acts in her minor daughter. In another case, Sam raped a woman and took advantage of the theft and extortion of huge sums, falsely claiming that various elements had taken them together.



The rape drug test was extracted from the hair of a woman who complained that Ben Abu had committed an indecent act a few months earlier after dropping a rape drug in her drink.



Nazareth District Court noted in the ruling that although the hair test has not yet been examined in Israeli courts, in the United States, England and Canada, hair examination has been one of the main evidence in many of the judgments, in various criminal cases, in labor and family courts. . In many of the judgments reviewed, the courts gave significant weight to the scientific evidence of a hair drug test that helped them decide the case.