Harari Toister & Co. Law Office

Harari Toister & Co. Law Office is a longstanding boutique law firm with esteemed and recognized expertise in the fields of administrative law, planning and building, real estate - urban renewal, local authorities law, municipal taxa-tion, and class actions. The firm, which was founded 90 years ago, enjoys a major reputation for its uncompromising specialization, longstanding proficiency, expertise and experience while investing in high-quality human capital, pro-fessional integrity, personal attention and high availability to the clients. The professional legal service is provided by a team of associates and partners, who together integrate multi-disciplinary knowledge and expertise to match the cli-ent’s needs. The firm represents clients in the public, private and business sectors, while promoting urban renewal transactions: TAMA 38, “Pinui Binui”, preservation, planning and building licenses, promotion of city construction plans, expropriations, betterment levies, Clause 197 Devaluation Claims, business licensing, preparation and legal as-sistance in public tenders, contracts, class actions, municipal taxes, betterment levies, etc. The firm has vast practice in litigation in planning, administrative, and civil matters within its practice areas. It has been involved in a long list of precedents, rulings and verdicts in its practice areas. The firm’s many years of experience, its availability to its clients, its large-scale activities and the many successes of its legal work position the firm as a well-reputed national expert in all its practice areas, and create unique and leading added value for the firm’s clients. One of the major pillars in the firm’s management is the emphasis on keeping up-to-date and developing professional knowledge that has been accumu-lating over the years alongside its vast legal activities in the areas of administrative law and planning and building rul-ings and legislation: betterment levies, severance claims, expropriation, local authority, class actions, city tax, munici-pal taxation, etc.

Practice Areas

Planning and Zoning, Promotions of Plans, 197 Clause Claims, Objections and Expropriations - The firm is ranked as an influencer and leader in representation and consultancy to local planning and building committees, as well as in representing private clients working along-side planning entities in the following fields: Master plans, redevelopment, guiding the release and replanning process for agricultural land, guiding “Pinui Binui” plans, building renewal, overall master plans, plans for unification and partition, urban renewal plans, conservation, the Met-ro plan, rights mobilizations plans– throughout all of their stages, from preparation through to approval of plans in various planning institutions and authorities including in objections permits proceedings and specifically for building permits. Representation before appeals committees, national councils and courts at all levels; supporting and consulting the client in all stages of the planning and permits procedures; Urban renewal - support for rights holders in urban renewal projects such as evacuation and construction plans; TAMA 38, The Shaked alternative, ; legal support and representation in exemptions and appeals procedures; handling suits under Clause 197 of the Planning and Building Law, expropriation laws, representing and consulting all sides involved in expropriation proceedings and the concept of owner-ship and cancelling expropriation and setting compensation; representing and consulting in preservation proceedings. The firm has experience and extensive knowledge in the field and specializes in representing clients before all planning and legal instances and courts.
Municipal Tax - Municipal Law and Tax, Development Fees and Levies - The firm has rich knowledge and experience in consulting local authorities and/or individuals in this field. The firm also specializes in preparing tax orders and By-laws and accompanying calculations and opposing thereof and supporting clients on the following topics: municipal tax and development levies, including representation in objections and appeals. The firm specializes in the preparation and approval of the promotion of levy obligations ac-cording to municipal bylaws and litigation related to it.
Class Actions - The firm specializes in representing local authorities in class actions filed against them including legal consultancy and support on insolvency notifications, approving compromises, withdrawal notifications, etc. The firm also represents private clients in filing class actions and representing plaintiffs.
Tenders and Contracts - The firm prepares tenders in various areas including infrastructures; large-scale projects, construction and development of public projects, development and infrastructure agreements, “smart city” projects, ser-vices, procurement, selling land; tenders for national inter-authority agreements, constructing public buildings; B.O.T, developing land and public spaces; initiating, promoting and developing private and public complex multistage areas and built spaces, etc. The firm’s staff supports the work of tender committees, prepares legal reviews on tenders and represent the firm’s clients in all legal proceedings conducted regarding tenders. The firm also guides developers in submitting tender offers and handles drafting contracts in various areas and represents in the courts in matters of tenders of contracts.
Real Estate & Urban Renewal - The firm specializes in all areas related to real estate and property improvement and conducting real estate transactions, among which are: representation of rights holders in urban renewal project in the “evacuation-construction” track and “Pinui-Binui” (evacuation-construction) track under the National Outline Plan (TAMA) 38, real-estate entrepreneurship, promoting city construction plans, optional sale and sale contracts; development; combination deals, leasing and renting vis-à-vis the Israel Land Authority; exchanging land; partnerships liquidation; representation before the Tax Authority; registering apartment buildings; registering plans including reparcellation, lot plans, expropriations, etc..
Administrative Law - The firm provides legal advice and representation in courts on a range of subjects in administrative law including: bylaws, freedom of information, education, municipal tax, development levies, contracts involving the authorities, business licensing, personal penalty procedures against officials, procedure for providing support, election law, representing elected officials, election appeals etc., institute endowment procedures, land allocation procedures, border changes, promoting and approving land transactions for administrative bodies, forceful evacuation, representing NPOs as well as local counsels and municipalities.
Litigation A seasoned office with rich experience, knowledge, and success in managing complex litigation cases in the field of real estate, disputes between authorities and citizens, partnerships in real estate and their dissolution, contractor claims, claims for development compensation, eviction and removal of trespassers, and more.