Bat Yam, Shurat HaDin Sue Iran for NIS 208 Million Over Deadly Missile Strike
By The Media Line Staff
The Bat Yam Municipality, represented by Shurat HaDin–Israel Law Center, filed a lawsuit against Iran on Sunday, seeking 208 million shekels in compensation for an Iranian ballistic missile strike during Operation Rising Lion in June 2025 that killed nine civilians, injured 178 others and caused extensive destruction across the city.
Filed in the Tel Aviv District Court, the civil claim seeks damages for the attack, which affected 160 buildings, including 22 requiring immediate demolition.
According to the lawsuit, Iran launched ballistic missiles toward central Israel at approximately 2:40 a.m. on June 15, 2025. One struck Bat Yam, causing widespread destruction.
Mayor Tzvika Brot and Shurat HaDin President Nitsana Darshan-Leitner personally delivered the legal documents to a senior Iranian diplomat outside United Nations headquarters in New York City. The unusual effort was intended to establish that the defendant had received formal notification of the proceedings.
Iran has 60 days to respond to the lawsuit. If it fails to submit a defense, Bat Yam intends to request a default judgment.
The municipality is also examining potential sources of compensation should the court rule in its favor, including approximately $1.1 billion in historical funds associated with the state-owned Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company.
Those funds, dating to arrangements involving Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, remain frozen in Israel under restrictions on trading with enemy states.
Shurat HaDin argues that Iran cannot claim sovereign immunity because Israeli law permits lawsuits concerning certain wrongful acts committed within Israeli territory. The organization maintains that deliberately firing ballistic missiles at civilian population centers constitutes an actionable war crime.
Darshan-Leitner described the lawsuit as part of a broader campaign targeting Iranian financial interests. She said Shurat HaDin would continue pursuing claims on behalf of terrorism victims “until we bring about the economic collapse of the Ayatollah regime.”
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