Ben Maoz – Law Offices

Ben Maoz’s law firm has been ranked consecutively every year, by prestigious and official legal rankings, as one of Israel’s leading and best-known criminal law firms.

Over the years, the firm grew at a meteoric rate as it successfully represented public officials, celebrities and everyday people in the most complex and publicized criminal affairs, and established its position as leader in its practice area.

Impressive Successes even in “Hopeless” Cases; New Precedents in Israeli Law

The firm’s team fights for its numerous clients also in cases which are perceived as “hopeless” while finding create legal solutions for particularly complex and difficult cases. Many of the cases where Adv. Maoz represented raised lively public discussions, and some of them even led to important social changes, legislation amendments and legal precedents in the Israeli law.

The numerous successes of the firm in large and highly-publicized cases led to its fast rise to prominence and the public eye and Adv. Maoz’s legal achievements received extensive attention in the national and global media.

Adv. Maoz’s team members have immense experience, an LL.M. degrees and vast professional knowledge in criminal law. The firm also collaborates with experts from the fields of psychiatry, private investigations, polygraph, forensics and more, in order to provide its clients with the best and most comprehensive legal defense during their trial and manage the crisis into which they stumbled.

Legal Service Around the Clock

The firm provides legal service at any time and at any place across the globe, with uncompromising commitment and devotion, for criminal offences of all types, including drug offences (trafficking, importing, exporting, growing and more), violence, manslaughter (murder, 2nd degree manslaughter and criminally negligence manslaughter), sex offences (sexual harassment, indecent act, rape, sodomy and more), property offences, economic offences, fraud, and more.

In addition, the firm provides legal representation to convicts in administrative petitions, before the parole committees, handles pardon applications to the President, expungement requests and closure of criminal files in the police.

Adv. Ben Maoz, Founder and Owner

Adv. Maoz formerly served as head of a criminal investigation department in the IDF and nowadays serves as a team leader (at the rank of a captain) in the missing persons unit. He started his professional career in the state criminal prosecution service and opened his own firm more than a decade ago in Tel Aviv. In addition to his work as a leading defense attorney, he is renown media personality who serves as a legal pundit and is often interviewed by various media outlets.

Adv. Maoz believes that “being a defense attorney means to be sucked into the client’s world for the duration of the case, to think about it at any given moment until the most accurate legal solution for achieving victory is found. It is not a profession – it is a way of life that has no room for er-rors”.

Complex and Significant Cases That Ben Maoz Law Office Handled:

Over the years, Adv. Ben Maoz’s firm represented large and complex cases that were highly publicized. Some of the cases are still being heard in the various courts. 

• The representation of Shira Iskov which led to an amendment in the Law and a new legal precedent in Israeli Law (a case that received extensive media coverage in Israel and globally including an article in the New York Times).
• The Eliasi Affair (“The Crook Who Managed to Convince Adva Dadon”),
• The affair of the jailoress who was accused of an alleged sexual relationship with convicts - The case ended in a month of service work
• The affair of Lihi Greener - The case was closed without an indictment
• rep-resenting a former soccer player who was accused of secretly filming women and distributing sex videos on porn sites - The case is closed with community service
• Representing Shiri Sobol who was accused of murdering her twin sister - She was charged with murder and received a sentence of only six years.
• Representing a suspect of throwing a grenade into the house of soccer player Omer Atzili
• Representing a suspect in making threats against Minister Ohana
• Representing a son from Rehovot who was accused of murdering his mother
• Representing victims in the affairs of the models’ agent Shai Avital and Yisrael Or
• Representing Steimatzky’s salary accountant who was accused of embezzlement
• Representing the brothers Tom and Elimelech Kashti who were accused of assaulting a guard in a residential building
• Representing the former beauty queen Tehila Levy
• Representing a private investigator who was accused of bribing a cop
• Representing a nurse who was accused of stabbing and causing severe harm - The case was closed without an indictment
• Representing a physician who was accused of stealing medicine and illicit substances abuse
• Representing a doctor suspected of assault and causing injuries - The case ended without a conviction
• Representing a masseuse who was suspect of sodomy and indecent behavior - The case was closed without an indictment
• The affair of importing drug suitcases from Germany - The case is closed with only community service
• The “pink suitcases” affair
• Representing one of the suspects close to Eyal Golan in the “social games” affair - The case was closed without an indictment
• The affair of the undercover police agent where the firm represented defendants in a drug trafficking case
• “Derby Eritrea” the murder case where the firm represented three defendants who were accused of political murder
• Representation of Nissan Gavni - the main suspect in the “College” case
• Representation of the suspects in the case of the gang rape in Eilat that led to the closing of the case against them
• Closing the case against a suspect who fatally shot victim who robbed him
• Representation of suspects in another gang rape case in Eilat - The case was closed without an indictment
• Representation of a woman who murdered her baby immediately after birth and threw it in a garbage can in Tel Aviv
• Representation of two defendants in a murder case - one was charged with murder under aggravated circumstances and the other was charged with murder under aggravated circumstances and attempted murder - The case ended in 4 and 5 years in prison, respectively, despite the fact that there was footage on the security cameras and also DNA on the weapons
• Representation of an Egged bus driver in a deterioration accident that caused deaths and injuries