"The proper response is that in the legal, social and educational reality in which we live, we cannot leave open the definition of reasonable and thus compromise at the risk of danger to the health and welfare of children. We must also take into account that we live in a society in which violence is as pervasive as a plague; an exception for "light" violence is likely to degenerate into more serious violence. We cannot endanger the bodily and mental integrity of the minor with any type of corporal punishment; the type of permissible measures must be clear and unequivocal, the message being that corporal punishment is not permitted" Israeli Supreme Court Decision, January 2000
"The proper response is that in the legal, social and educational reality in which we live, we cannot leave open the definition of reasonable and thus compromise at the risk of danger to the health and welfare of children. We must also take into a...