A Tel Aviv district court has ordered a snack bar owner to repay a 2.6 million shekel ($806,000) loan to his former brother-in-law, rejecting his claim that he had already repaid the debt by letting him place thousands of unpaid sports bets.
The lender, a shoe store owner, was once married to the sister of the borrower. In his April 2023 lawsuit, he claimed that beginning in 2016, he received two checks totaling 1.75 million shekels ($542,500) from his ex-brother-in-law as partial repayment, signed by the borrower’s sons as guarantors. A later check for 2.6 million shekels was also signed by one of the sons. However, the checks were never cashed because the lender was warned they would bounce. He instead turned to the court.
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