Leah Eisenberg alleges that realisation measures in Panama are liable to frustrate the hearing on her motion for a temporary administrator to be appointed to the estate.
Judge Yishai Levitt, deputy Supreme Justice of the Tel-Aviv District Court, today (Thursday) issued an ex parte preliminary injunction, prohibiting Erwin Eisenberg, son of the late Shoul Eisenberg, and the family of his brother-in-law, ICL general manager Yigal Dimant, from initiating or taking part in any judicial procedure relating to rights in Shoul Eisenberg’s estate outside the jurisdiction. This includes a prohibition on their taking part in any legal, judicial, or quasi- judicial proceedings in Panama, where some of Shoul Eisenberg’s assets are registered. The hearing on the motion for an interim injunction will take place on June 18, in the course of the hearing on the motion to appoint a provisional administrator to the estate.
In the application for the order, filed by widow Leah Eisenberg and daughter Emily Forman, the lawyers note that when applying for a probate order for Shoul Eisenberg’s will, Dimant had stated that another probate order application, relating to assets of the estate located outside Israel, had been filed in Panama on May 30.
According to the applicants it is to be feared that, until the date set for hearing the application arrives, Erwin Eisenberg and Dimant will continue to conduct legal proceedings already instituted in Panama, or will initiate more proceedings in some judicial forum outside the jurisdiction, in such a way as to void of all content the application for an interim injunction, and to frustrate the hearing thereon, and possibly also the principal case.