This article, published in the 2009 Intellectual Property Quarterly, examines legislative provisions and case-law to explore whether Israeli law treats privacy as proprietary or as a human right. The article concluds that the Privacy Law - 1981 originally conceived of privacy as a presonal, human right. However, case-law introduced proprietary aspects to privacy, for example: rights in the deceased, and even in corporations; injunctive relief and various defenses were applied as if it were a proprietary right and so on. Amendments to the law have also given the right a distinctly proprietary charachter. The Israeli law of privacy is thus in a confused and misshapen state.