The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court ordered two brothers to return more than NIS 1 million defrauded from the Defense Ministry, after falsely reporting for five years that they were accompanying their disabled father 12 hours a day to receive benefits.
The late father of the defendants was wounded during the Yom Kippur War and was recognized as an IDF invalid in need of 24-hour care and nursing until the date of his death in 2017. While their father was alive, the declared that they were accompanying their father and were paid monthly according to the escort hours reported.