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1. Scope of This Disclaimer

This disclaimer applies to the entirety of IsraelNonResident.com (the "Site"), including but not limited to: all legal guides and articles; all Q&A pages and responses; all case studies and hypothetical scenarios; all FAQs and frequently asked questions sections; all calculators, tools, and estimators; all glossary definitions; all country-specific legal guides; all silo pages, category pages, and landing pages; all metadata, page titles, and descriptions; all social media content referencing or summarising content from this Site; all emails, newsletters, and other communications sent by or on behalf of this Site; and any other content, material, or information published on or distributed through this Site in any format, at any time.

This disclaimer applies to every person who accesses, reads, uses, or relies upon any content on this Site, regardless of how they found the Site, how much content they have read, whether they have contacted us, or whether they have previously engaged our services.

2. No Legal Advice — Detailed Statement

Nothing on this Site constitutes legal advice. Legal advice is advice given by a qualified attorney to a specific client, based on the attorney's detailed knowledge of that client's particular facts and circumstances, following the creation of a formal attorney-client relationship. The content on this Site is general legal information — it describes how Israeli law operates in general terms and in hypothetical or representative situations. It is not advice about what you should do in your specific situation.

The difference between legal information and legal advice is legally and practically significant. Acting on general legal information as though it were specific legal advice for your situation is dangerous and may cause serious harm — including financial loss, missed deadlines, loss of legal rights, invalid transactions, tax liabilities, and other consequences that cannot be reversed.

The attorneys and contributors to this Site owe no duty of care to readers of this Site in respect of information published on it. No professional obligation arises from reading, using, or relying on content on this Site. The only professional obligations owed by any attorney associated with this Site arise from a signed, written engagement agreement with a specific named client — not from this Site or anything on it.

3. No Attorney-Client Relationship

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Until an attorney-client relationship is formally established in writing, any communication you send us is not confidential or privileged, we are not obligated to hold it confidential, we have no duty to act on it, and you should not send us information you consider sensitive or confidential.

4. Articles, Guides, and Legal Explanations

The articles, guides, and legal explanations published on this Site describe how Israeli law operates in general terms. They are written to inform and educate a general non-resident audience. They do not account for all possible factual variations, exceptions, jurisdictional nuances, or changes in law that may have occurred since the content was last reviewed. Specific figures, thresholds, deadlines, rates, and procedures described in any article may have changed since publication. An article that accurately describes the law as it stood on its publication date may be inaccurate at the time you read it.

No article or guide on this Site should be used as the basis for any decision to take or refrain from taking any legal action, to sign or not sign any document, or to assert or waive any legal right or claim. All such decisions require specific legal advice from a qualified attorney who has reviewed your facts.

5. Q&A Content

The Q&A pages on this Site provide general answers to general questions. They are based on how Israeli law typically operates in common fact patterns. They are not answers to your specific question about your specific situation. The answer to the question as posed on this Site may be different from the answer to the same question applied to your particular facts, family structure, asset composition, country of residence, transaction history, or legal status.

Q&A content is not a legal opinion. It is not a substitute for a legal opinion. Reading a Q&A page does not provide you with legal advice, does not confirm that a particular course of action is available to you, and does not confirm that a particular legal outcome applies to your case.

6. Case Studies

Case studies published on this Site are illustrative narratives based on representative fact patterns. They are presented for educational purposes to help readers understand how legal processes work in practice. They do not represent guarantees of outcomes. The outcome achieved in any case study does not predict, imply, or warrant any particular outcome in any other matter. Every legal matter is fact-specific. Past outcomes are not indicative of future results. The facts of any case study have been simplified and generalised for clarity; they may not reflect the full complexity of the actual situation from which they are drawn.

No case study on this Site should be read as a promise, guarantee, prediction, or representation that a similar outcome will be achieved in any reader's matter.

7. Calculators and Estimation Tools

Any calculators, estimators, or interactive tools on this Site produce approximate figures for illustrative purposes only. They are not tax advice, legal advice, financial advice, or professional advice of any kind. The figures they produce are based on simplified models using general inputs; they do not account for all the variables, exceptions, elections, treaty provisions, historical rates, linkage calculations, or factual nuances that an accurate professional calculation would incorporate. Figures produced by any calculator on this Site must not be used for tax filing, legal declarations, transaction pricing, or any other purpose requiring accurate figures. Always obtain a professional calculation from a qualified Israeli attorney, accountant, or tax adviser before acting on any figure.

8. Glossary and Definitions

Glossary definitions on this Site are simplified explanations of legal terms for general educational purposes. They do not constitute authoritative legal definitions and should not be relied upon as precise statements of law. Legal terms have specific technical meanings under Israeli statutes, court decisions, and regulatory guidance that may differ from or be more nuanced than any general definition provided on this Site.

9. Accuracy, Currency, and Completeness

While we make reasonable efforts to ensure that content on this Site is accurate at the time of publication, we make no representations, warranties, or guarantees — express or implied — as to the accuracy, completeness, currentness, reliability, or suitability of any information on this Site for any purpose. Israeli law, including statutes, regulations, court decisions, administrative guidance, tax rates, filing thresholds, and procedural requirements, changes regularly. Content on this Site may not reflect the most recent legal developments. We are under no obligation to update any content on this Site following publication.

The presence of a publication date or "last updated" date on any piece of content does not constitute a representation that the content is accurate or complete as of that date or as of any subsequent date.

10. Jurisdiction and Cross-Border Complexity

This Site addresses Israeli law and its interaction with the laws of other countries. Cross-border legal matters — involving, for example, Israeli inheritance and a foreign heir, or an Israeli property and a non-resident seller — are governed by multiple overlapping legal systems. The interaction between Israeli law and the law of any specific other country is complex and highly fact-specific. Information on this Site about cross-border matters is necessarily general and does not constitute advice about how Israeli law and any other country's law interact in any specific case.

Readers with matters involving legal obligations in more than one country must obtain legal advice in each relevant jurisdiction from qualified attorneys admitted in that jurisdiction. Israeli legal information does not constitute advice about foreign law, and nothing on this Site should be treated as advice about the law of any country other than Israel.

11. Time-Sensitive Matters and Deadlines

Israeli law imposes strict deadlines on many legal actions, filings, declarations, payments, objections, and registrations. Missing a legal deadline can permanently extinguish a right, create liability, or result in financial penalties. Information on this Site about deadlines is general and may not reflect the specific deadline that applies to your situation, the date from which that deadline runs, any extensions that may be available, or exceptions that may apply. Do not rely on any deadline stated on this Site without confirming its applicability and accuracy with a qualified Israeli attorney.

12. Tax and Financial Information

Any information on this Site relating to Israeli taxes — including but not limited to purchase tax, betterment levy, income tax, VAT, withholding tax, inheritance tax, or any other levy — is general information only. It is not tax advice. Tax rates, thresholds, brackets, and procedures change regularly. The tax consequences of any specific transaction, inheritance, investment, or business activity depend on individual facts that this Site cannot assess. All tax-related decisions must be made in consultation with a qualified Israeli tax attorney or certified public accountant.

13. No Warranty of Results

This Site makes no representation that using the information provided will lead to any particular legal outcome, that any legal strategy described will succeed in any specific case, that any authority will accept a particular argument or document, or that any timeline or cost estimate described will apply to any reader's situation. Legal outcomes are inherently uncertain and depend on facts, evidence, the positions taken by counterparties and authorities, and the exercise of judicial or administrative discretion. Nothing on this Site constitutes a guarantee, warranty, or representation of any particular result.

14. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, IsraelNonResident.com, its operators, employees, directors, agents, contributors, attorneys, and affiliated entities (collectively, "we" or "us") shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary loss or damage of any kind — including but not limited to financial loss, legal costs, missed deadlines, loss of rights, loss of property, loss of business opportunity, or any other loss — arising out of or in connection with:

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17. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This disclaimer and any dispute arising from the use of this Site shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Israel. Any legal proceedings arising from the use of this Site shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Tel Aviv, Israel.

18. Changes to This Disclaimer

We reserve the right to modify, update, or replace this disclaimer at any time without notice. The version of this disclaimer published on this Site at the time of your access governs your use of the Site at that time. Continued use of this Site following any modification constitutes your acceptance of the modified disclaimer.

19. Severability

If any provision of this disclaimer is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severed from the remainder of this disclaimer, which shall continue in full force and effect.

20. Contact

Questions or comments regarding this disclaimer may be directed to: office@eshimony-law.com

Adv. Eli Shimony
28 HaArba'a Street, North Tower, Floor 13
Tel Aviv, Israel