Eddie Avinoam, Law Office

Eddie Avinoam, Law Office is a leading boutique law firm that has been specializing in the various aspects of criminal law, blue collar and white-collar offences, for about three decades. The firm has accumulated vast professional experience and a track record of numerous proven successes, including rare acquittals and numerous precedents. The firm was ranked by Dun & Bradstreet as one of Israel’s prominent criminal law firms in 2022 and 2023.

The vast professional experience, in combination with the attentive and accepting personal approach with empathy and caring, the court appearance capabilities, the creativity, the knowledge and the deep proficiency in the law, lead to the firm’s proven successes for its clients in thousands of verdicts, including numerous acquittals in criminal offences of all types, including two acquittals in murder cases, and in other manslaughter cases, and in cases with many other criminal offences. The firm’s clientele includes businesspersons, bankers, physicians and other professionals and mega-corporations alongside innocent citizens who have no previous criminal record.

Adv. Avinoam client support approach goes beyond his vast professional knowledge and his professional criminal defense practice, and it also includes the added value that stems from Adv. Avinoam’s B.A. in social sciences from Bar Ilan University, in psychology, criminology and sociology, where he graduated magna cum laude and in fact as one of the top 40 students in Israel. Adv. Avinoam applies this important academic knowledge so that it can create the added value from which his clients benefit as an integral part of the firm’s professional service.

Adv. Avinoam sees himself as a lawyer with an orientation that integrates phenomenal criminal law knowledge with social sciences tools, all combined into creating a solution for clients who are fighting for their lives in their criminal cases.

Clients from the criminal defense practice area are in distress, since their freedom and reputation are at stake, and the firm supports them in reducing their worries that result from their difficult situation, meticulously providing full availability, empathy, emotional containment and personal and devoted service.

Adv. Avinoam accompanies his clients, while providing legal protection throughout the process, starting from the interrogation or arrest, representation in hearings and before the court until a decision or verdict are reached, and where necessary, also in appeals. Adv. Avinoam has a long track record of handling thousands of criminal cases, including highly publicized cases that received extensive public attention, such as a murder case currently in progress in the Central District Court, which attributes to a minor we represent the murder of another minor and several additional criminal offenses, alongside another serious on going case in the District Court against another one of our clients, a senior municipal employee accused of causing death by negligence and neglecting the deceased after the injury.

The firm’s resume includes many complex cases, among which are, the murder case that was attributed to council head of Julis, Salman Amar, who was accused of 1st degree manslaughter of the gardening contractor in 7 gunshots (the position of the State of Israel to exact a life sentence on him was rejected by the Haifa District Court and even in the Supreme Court.).

The firm is entrusted with representing and managing criminal cases in all aspects of criminal law, including drugs, property offences, sex offences, violence and domestic violence. In addition, the firm represents clients in all types of white-collar offences, including misappropriation, fraud, money laundering, bribery, insider theft, employee theft, taxation and economic crimes. The firm represents inmates in appeals against the Prison Authority and in parole board discussions and handles the cases of soldiers who were accused of criminal misconduct and has vast experience in appearing before military courts.

In the criminal law field, longstanding professional experience and proven results are the most important factors for the success of lawyers in the cases. The firm has about 30 years of experience, and a track record with many acquittals and publicized cases, and accordingly its clients know that they are in good hands.

Some of the numerous legal precedents in the firm’s track record include the manslaughter case of Raz Hajaj, where Adv. Avinoam represented the killer, and created a precedent where 3.5 years of hospitalization were considered to be part of his jail time. In addition, the firm’s track record includes an acquittal in a severe murder case on the ground of self-defense which was accepted despite the severity of the event, and a unanimous acquittal from murder in the case of Dina Navon. In addition, in the recent case of a murder which was attributed to a renown playwriter whose name was subjected to a gag order, the state attorney was convinced to close the case despite strong evidence, due to severe investigation blunders.

The firm also recorded unusually lenient results in hundreds of cases that he handled over the years – in severe crime cases such as drugs, violence, sex offences and property offences, alongside with white collar offences such as a senior public official who was convicted twice in offences of bribery, misappropriation and breach of trust, and served no actual imprisonment, in two cases that were adjudicated in district courts. The firm also has a precedent in the case of a fraud affair of an immeasurable magnitude against the Sport Gambling Regulation Council, which was concluded with a conviction (money laundering, misappropriation) and also in the case of the Yisrael Beitenu Affair, where Adv. Avinoam represented one of the main players of this affair, who was sentenced to community service without imprisonment. Numerous other cases that may not be specified here are detailed on Eddie Avinoam’s website.

Adv. Eddie Avinoam

Adv. Avinoam is a professional defense attorney, with three decades of professional experience in representing suspects and defendants, adults and minors, in criminal offences, who has an excellent reputation in light of his thousands of appearances and numerous successes in courts across Israel.

Adv. Avinoam, who wished to practice criminal law from the beginning, interned under a district judge in the Tel Aviv District Court, who adjudicated severe crimes as a member of a panel and as a single judge. Afterwards he was an associate defense lawyer in the firm of Adv. Sassi Gaz for two years.

Adv. Avinoam graduated with an LL.B. and a B.A., Social Sciences (psychology, criminology and sociology) – magna cum laude, both from Bar ilan University. His broad education and his interdisciplinary knowledge create a unique strength in managing criminal cases, where he implements his vast knowledge.

He served as V. Chairperson of the Israel Bar Association’s Tel Aviv District Criminal Matters Committee, and currently serves as (co-)Chairperson of the Criminal Matters Committee of Central District and is a lecturer at professional conferences. In this capacity, he has been participating in legal panels and even received a letter of merit for his work.