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Introduction
On 26 November 2020 the Central District Court (Judge Hadas Ovadia) dismissed a claim filed by Yossef Levi (the plaintiff) against Pazgas Ltd and its insurer Phoenix Insurance Company Ltd (the defendants) and determined that the plaintiff had failed to prove:
that the claim event had been a gas explosion ; and
Pazgas s alleged negligence.(1)
Facts
At approximately 9:00pm on 7 September 2010, a fire broke out in a pub called Levis located in an industrial building in the city of Ashdod, which was operated by the plaintiff.
In March 2014 the plaintiff filed a statement of claim in the Central District Court regarding property damage that he had allegedly sustained, in the amount of NIS6,635,846, as a result of a gas leak that had led to an explosion and a fire that had broken out in his pub.