Israeli Law Q&A for Canada Residents

Your provincial certificate is not recognised in Israel, but the Israeli gate is an employment approval rather than a licence you hold personally. Section 16(a) of the Supervision of Schools Law 5729-1969 provides that no person may employ an education worker unless that worker holds written approval from the Director General of the Ministry of Education, and Section 16(b) sets out the grounds on which approval may be refused. A refusal or revocation can be appealed to the Minister of Education within 21 days under Section 20.

It can tax him, and your shares are part of the reason why. Section 75B of the Income Tax Ordinance treats a private foreign company as a controlled foreign company where most of its income is passive, the foreign tax rate on that income does not exceed 15%, and Israeli residents hold more than 50% of the means of control. A separate limb catches holdings of over 40% by Israeli residents where, together with a foreign-resident relative, they exceed 50%. Your brother is then deemed to receive a dividend of his share of the undistributed passive profits.

Almost certainly yes, and it is a debt of the estate rather than a favour. Section 4 of the Severance Pay Law 5723-1963 treats an employee whose work ended because the employer died as though the employer had dismissed her, so a caregiver with at least a year of service earns roughly one month's salary for each year worked. At the April 2026 minimum wage of NIS 6,443 a month, six years of service is about NIS 38,658 before pension and unused leave.

You can, under Section 288 of the Insolvency and Economic Rehabilitation Law 5778-2018. A director or chief executive who knew, or ought to have known, that the company is insolvent and did not take reasonable measures to reduce the scope of that insolvency is liable to the company for the damage caused to its creditors. The duty is personal, it is not softened by living in Toronto, and Section 288(b) tells you what the reasonable measures look like.

Often yes, under Section 71 of the Real Estate Taxation (Appreciation and Purchase) Law 5723-1963, which exempts the transfer of a property right from a dissolving association to its shareholders on liquidation where the section's conditions are met. Regulation 27(b) of the purchase tax regulations gives a matching purchase tax exemption for a transfer to an individual shareholder. The relief is a deferral rather than a pardon: Section 72B(b) carries the company's original acquisition date and cost onto you.

You cannot register your names on an apartment that has no registered existence, so the building has to be registered as a *bayit meshutaf* first. Chapter 6 of the Land Law 5729-1969 governs it, and the registration order comes from the Supervisor of Land Registration. Budget roughly NIS 8,000 to NIS 15,000 for the surveyor's plan alone, and note that the plan is only valid for six months once drawn.

It depends which kind of error it is. A clerical mistake, a misspelt transliterated name or a wrong passport number, is dealt with by the Land Registrar on a documented application, with an appeal under Sections 121 and 122 of the Land Law 5729-1969 to the Chief Registrar and then the District Court. A substantive error, where a right was omitted from the new register or registered wrongly at settlement of title, needs a court order under Section 93 of the Land Rights Settlement Ordinance 5729-1969, and that route is subject to the law of prescription.

Yes. Section 67B of the Legal Capacity and Guardianship Law 5722-1962, added by Amendment 18 in 2016, lets the Family Court appoint a supporter in decision-making (tomech b'kabalat hachlatot) who helps your mother decide rather than deciding for her. The Supported Decision-Making Regulations 5784-2024 finally put the scheme into operation, and the Administrator General now keeps a register of trained supporters. A relative or someone with an ongoing personal relationship can be appointed without the training requirement.

Israel follows a loser-pays rule, but it is a discretionary one. Regulation 152 of the Civil Procedure Regulations 5779-2018 says the court shall award reasonable and fair costs at the end of the proceedings unless special circumstances justify otherwise, and Regulation 153 directs the court to the value of the claim, the complexity of the case and the expenses actually incurred, with attorney fees ordinarily not set below the Israel Bar Association's recommended minimum tariff. A Canadian claimant should also expect the defendant to apply early for security for costs, which is a separate deposit paid up front and forfeited if you lose.

Registration and specialisation are two separate applications, and Canadians usually underestimate the second. The Psychologists Law 5737-1977 reserves the title and the practice to those entered in the Register of Psychologists (*Pinkas HaPsychologim*) kept by the Psychology Centre of the Ministry of Health, and entry requires a recognised master's degree in psychology. Specialist status as a *mumche* in clinical, educational, developmental, medical, rehabilitation or social-occupational psychology is a further track with its own supervised internship and examinations, and Ontario specialist registration does not transfer into it.

Yes, but through the narrow doors the rules leave open rather than by filing a better valuation. Under the Civil Procedure Regulations 5779-2018 the court may appoint an expert under Regulation 88, and Regulation 91(a) gives that expert 60 days to deliver the opinion. Your routes are written clarification questions, cross-examination of the expert at a hearing, and in limited cases an application for a second expert. Israeli judges adopt the court expert's figure in the large majority of cases.

The payout is cut proportionally, not just capped. Section 60 of the Insurance Contract Law 5741-1981 provides that where the sum insured at the time the contract was made was less than the value of the insured property, the insurer's liability is reduced in the same proportion. Insure a NIS 2,000,000 apartment for NIS 1,000,000 and a NIS 300,000 water damage claim pays NIS 150,000, even though the loss is nowhere near the policy limit.