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The Cisg In Israel, Dr. Yehuda Adar

Yehuda Adar Dr.

This article reviews the status of the CISG in the Israeli legal system. The survey reveals that the attitude of the Israeli courts toward international sales laws has in the past been rather ambivalent. The author argues that while some decisions of the Supreme Court have ignored the international context without a sufficiently clear reason, most of the cases where the convention was actually applied reflect a sympathetic approach toward the idea of a uniform international law of sales. Furthermore, on the last occasion in which the CISG was heavily relied upon by the Supreme Court, the Court’s analysis reflected …