Relatives of Daniel Cantor Wultz and other victims of terror won a procedural victory last Friday in their lawsuits against the Bank of China.
The lawsuits stem from terror attacks in Israel between the years of 2003 and 2008. Wultz, a high school student from Florida vacationing in Israel with his family, was one of 11 people killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the Tel Aviv central bus station on April 17, 2006. His father was also injured in the attack.
The decision may force a key witness to testify for the plaintiffs.
A group of terrorist victims’ families has won a procedural victory that could prove decisive in their civil damages case against the Bank of China for alleged connections with the financing of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist attacks. …
The bottom line in the actual decision handed down late Friday by Washington, DC, Federal Court judge Reggie Walton – as yet unreported elsewhere – was that he would not decide whether the case’s key witness, former Israeli government agent Uzi Shaya, would have to testify. He left that decision to New York Federal Court judge Shira Scheindlin.
The motion on which Judge Walton ruled was brought by Shurat Hadin – The Israel Law Center – which, in its own words, “works together with western intelligence agencies and volunteer lawyers around the world to file legal actions on behalf of victims of terror.”
David Hazony, editor of The Tower Magazine, profiled Shurat Hadin’s founder, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, in The Woman Who Makes the Jihadis Squirm, which appeared in the February 2014 issue of the magazine.
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