A Tel Aviv District Court has found that attorney Ronen Oren and Eyal Meshich defrauded businesswoman D. in a land deal involving the same Ramat Hasharon plot they had already been caught selling before. Judge Naftali Shila ruled on June 8, 2026, that Oren and Meshich failed to give a coherent explanation for where the money went, while D. provided detailed records of her payments.
According to the ruling, Oren had represented D. for years and built a relationship of trust with her through earlier legal work and business cooperation. In June 2017, he introduced her to Meshich, who claimed he owned rights in 15 dunams in Ramat Hasharon supposedly suitable for 300 housing units. Meshich offered D. four land units of 100 square meters each, and said she and Oren would each pay him 1 million shekels. A month later, the sides signed an agreement that also gave D. and Oren an option to buy half the land for 50 million shekels.
The court said Oren and Meshich knew they had no rights to the land. A 2013 decision had already found that the company Meshich cited had no such rights, and in 2015 Oren was recorded telling a previous victim, “I am Ronen Oren, I am not making another contract on that land. Period. I am not doing it... I did it once by mistake.” In February 2017, another couple sued them over the same plot, and in February 2020 they were convicted of fraud and given prison terms converted to community service, four months for Oren and nine for Meshich. Oren was later suspended from the Israel Bar Association for seven years in January 2023.
D. said she paid the pair about 1 million shekels in roughly 20 installments, left the checks open at their request for alleged eviction of squatters, moved into their offices, paid rent, and furnished the offices herself. When she tried to bring in investors through Yuvalim, she was told the land was not Meshich’s and could support at most 12 apartments, not 300. She also said some of her checks were used to renovate Meshich’s private home and buy him vehicles. After she demanded her money back, she received four checks for 50,000 shekels each, but the bank refused to honor even the first one. She also sought repayment of about 650,000 shekels she said she had lent Oren for another land purchase in Jaffa.
The court accepted her claim and ordered Oren and Meshich to pay 1.55 million shekels, including 1.01 million for the land payments with indexation and interest, 150,000 shekels for pain and suffering, and 400,000 shekels for the alleged loan to Oren. With interest and indexation, the total rises to about 2.3 million shekels, plus 150,000 shekels in legal costs. D. was represented by attorney Tomer Berzik.
