(JTA) Daniella Ashkenazy - The award for the strangest Supreme Court case goes to an Israeli named Shlomo Avni, who petitioned the high court for the right to be eaten by wild animals after his death, saying he was only repaying a debt to nature as a lifetime consumer in the food chain. In their decision, three Supreme Court judges wished the 80-year-old plaintiff a long life and unanimously rejected his petition. Residents of a north Tel Aviv apartment building found themselves paying huge water bills that were 10 to 100 times those of similar dwellings. After investigation, it was discovered that an underground connection from the apartment house was watering an adjacent municipal park. These and other snippets of daily life as reported in the Israeli press are found in the author's column: chelm-on-the-med.com.
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