Expertise
Our mission is to provide you with legal advice that best suits your wishes and support that is closely tailored to your needs.
Investing in Real Estate
in Israel
While investing in Real Estate in Israel is generally a well-considered and likely long-term profitable choice, it is also an investment of the heart, whether for yourself, for your children and grandchildren, or for a long-term return (especially for its added value) and this often represents a serious cut in your budget.
It is therefore necessary to remain cautious while keeping in front of you a choice of opportunities to seize.
We will present to you the opportunity to invest in Israel, with the conviction of having at your side the trust and vision of our services, both vital in any investment in Israel, this thanks to our own investment service – especially in Real Estate or in the renewal of urban development – “Eshkol“.
Inheritance and donations in Israel or abroad
The Zajfman-Kornitzer Law Firm also specializes in inheritance law in Israel and, through its network of professionals abroad (in Belgian, French, Luxembourg and Swiss law), our Firm also handles inheritances in these countries linked to Israel, serving as a link between the family here and the authorities there, and vice versa, from A to Z.
The Zajfman-Kornitzer Law Firm provides many inheritance or personal legal services in Israel, starting with advice, then:
• drafting individual or mutual wills (in Hebrew, French or English),
• requests for devolution of inheritance (with or without a will),
• monitoring the legal procedure at the Probate Registry (and possibly its transfer to the Family Court),
• the composition and signing of “Future Protection Mandate” and “preliminary medical instructions”,
• all summonses before the family court, regarding inheritance devolution orders,
• all through personalized and quality legal support.
To better understand the very different characteristics from those in Europe and the complexity of inheritances in Israel – free of inheritance or succession rights (except if Real Estate because property taxes are due in the event of sale), we invite you to read the article on inheritances in Israel, published on this site.
Contracts of all types
Our firm offers you its services for drafting contracts of all types, regardless of your status in it, whether for the purchase or sale of Real Estate (purchase/sale, rental/ lease, development and renewal of urban planning) or other, for the lease or rental of all properties, for any donation and loan, for any employment or business creation, in short for everything you may need in Israel.
If requested, we will draft or have translated – orally or in writing with applicable cost – the draft contract in a language you understand, to be sure that it meets your expectations.
In Israel – Trust / Escrow / Property Trust Company
As part of your case with us, holding, for you, assets (e.g. your private shares) by our own Trust / Escrow / Property Trust Company, Link to Zajfman-Kornitzer Trust Company
Immigration Aliyah
The Firm also specializes in immigration to Israel: support for the new immigrant, before-during-after his Aliyah, with personalized legal assistance, in Israel or abroad.
The Firm personalizes the support of each of its clients in all stages of the process and has its contacts to, sometimes, maximize the processing of your file, sometimes during a frontal interview or by Zoom, both by ourselves and by our networks.
Litigation
For our regular clients, both Israeli and foreign, the Firm’s litigation department represents them before Israeli courts, local mediation or arbitration bodies, and judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, with an emphasis on the advantage of a compromise.
The specificity of litigation lies in our management of them vis-à-vis the client. This allows our clients to be advised at the litigation / pre-litigation level by an optimized understanding of their specific needs and risks, and thus, find them solutions in many areas in Israel, including:
• All commercial and civil litigation
• Real Estate law disputes
• Will and estate disputes
• Corporate law disputes
The Firm represents its clients before civil and administrative courts. Our Firm favors mediation and alternative dispute resolution procedures.
Notary IL
Our firm offers its various notarial services in English, French, Hebrew and also in Dutch/Flemish, by authentication and apostilles traditionally or digitally.
Notarial work in Israel is very different from that in continental law in Europe; indeed, we are both lawyers and notaries, but with skills very different from those of the notary in Continental Western Europe. To better understand this, we invite you to read the article on notarial work in Israel, published on this site: Link to article Notarial work in Israel.
Attorneys Sally Zajfman and Raphael Kornitzer provide their services, as Israeli Notaries of the Firm, in several languages, in the following areas:
• Authentication of signatures of documents, whether the language of the document is known to the signatory or not (sometimes also abroad)
• Authentication of signatures of documents, on behalf of an authorized third party (private or organization) (sometimes also abroad)
• Certification of true translation
• Certification of true copy
• Receipt of declaration
• Certificate of life
• Drafting of personalized notarial deeds
• Marriage contract (prenuptial)
• Obtaining Israeli Apostilles from the IL Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Justice
Real Estate Management
Thanks to the knowledge and especially the abundant experience accumulated, we have created our own Israeli Real Estate management company with a range of management services, either directly by our employees or by one of the professionals in our network (contractor, plumber, electrician, accountant, Real Estate agent, etc.).
The Zajfman-Kornitzer Nadlan company is the answer to all your worries about managing your apartment or villa in Israel, with always the same quality of service, and even the receipt and holding, for you, of the rental income from your Real Estate and their declaration to the Israeli tax authorities. Link to D-REM Zajfman-Kornitzer Nadlan Nihul VeHahzaka Ltd.
Real Estate
The firm supports Real Estate transactions, both in the commercial and private sectors.
The firm represents clients from Israel and abroad, whether commercial or private, companies, entrepreneurs, construction companies, associations of all types – in all aspects relating to the purchase, development, sale, construction, and rental of Real Estate.
Including in all urban development renewal transactions, such as “TAMA 38”, as well as Evacuation-Reconstruction or combinatorial.
The firm advises and supports private individuals and organizations (Israeli or foreign) operating or investing in the Real Estate sector in Israel.
The firm represents its clients in all stages of the transaction, truly from A to Z, in collaboration with all necessary third-party experts: from the pre-purchase checks to the purchase of the asset, both on private land and on land belonging to the Israeli Land Authority or to the various Clergy.
This around planning and construction, as well as registrations and records, monitoring of the purchase, sale, rental, lease, apartment, villa, commercial leases or land, legal monitoring of owners / tenants or, where appropriate, representation of the client in the participation or sale of a project.
The Firm intervenes for you, also before the Israeli Land Tax Authority, for the payment or exemption of Real Estate taxes relating to Real Estate transaction
Companies / Charity / Foundations / Trusts (escrows)
After listening to you carefully, during a discreet face-to-face interview or by Zoom, and after giving you our advice for your project, our firm takes care of all the necessary steps to realize your project in Israel, whether for a Company, a Charity or a Foundation, and sometimes even at the bank here, if possible (with you).
This from the drafting, with you, of the Charter / Statutes / Regulations of the company / association / foundation / Trust, its possible registration with the respective Registries in Israel, your support (if possible) towards the local bank of your choice, the incorporation protocols and the following, the choice of a local accountant or tax specialist, and the follow-up afterwards, as well as all legal advice necessary for the life of your project
