Harel Navon Law Firm

Harel Navon Law Firm is a boutique firm that handles immigration and citizenship cases. The firm provides its clients comprehensive services in its areas of expertise, including the regulation of foreign workers status in Israel (foreign experts and nursing care workers), regulation of status for married or common-law married couples, extending tourist visas, regulation of entry permits for those who were denied, humanitarian requests, releases from custody, deportation candidates, etc. Additionally, the firm handles individual or class actions claims on the grounds of discrimination against the disabled, guides businesses regarding their rights and obligations as service providers, and more.

Each Case is a World on its Own

Harel Navon Law Firm was established in 2015, a time when very few firms survived in this niche area, and over the years gained extensive experience in representing its clients before the immigration authorities and the courts. The firm was established by partners Adv. Nitsan Harel and Adv. and Mediator Bar Navon, who emphasize the best interest of their clients and seek justice on their behalf. The experienced lawyers are personally involved in every case and work tirelessly with enthusiasm and full transparency, while acknowledging that each case is a “world on its own” given that people’s lives and future are hanging in the balance.
The partners fight with determination and resourcefulness on their clients’ behalf and refuse to give up until they achieve the desired result and the full realization of their clients’ rights.

The Firm’s Management

Adv. Nitsan Harel, Partner – Adv. Harel manages the civil and litigation departments. Additionally, she is a member of the Israeli Bar’s Immigration and Foreigners Committee as well as the accessibility coordinator on behalf of the bar. She specializes in civil and administrative laws with an emphasis on accessibility laws and the promotion of equal rights and opportunities for the disabled. At the beginning of her professional career, she worked as a legal assistant in the Tel Aviv court, where she gained a lot of experience and knowledge in representing before judicial tribunals and writing legal opinions. She is an LL.B. graduate.

Adv. and Mediator Bar Navon – Adv. Navon manages the Foreign Experts mobility department and the regulation of alien status in Israel. She also serves as a member of the Immigration and Foreigners Committee at the Bar Association. Adv. Navon specializes in civil administrative law and the management of class action lawsuits. Her professional career began in a firm that handles the administrative field and status regulations in Israel. In this framework, she founded and led a department for the mobility of foreign experts and counselled large companies with projects, some of the biggest in the Israeli market. She is an LL.B. graduate and holds a master’s degree in the management of educational systems.

Prominent Cases

Status regulation in Israel based on religious conversion – representing a client whose request was denied by the Exceptions Committee for Approval of Conversion for Foreign Citizens, and therefore he was required to leave Israel immediately. The firm filed an appeal to the District Court, which accepted most of the claims and ordered the Ministry of Interior to issue him a temporary visa. Additionally, the court ordered the designated committee to re-examine his request based on the information presented by the firm. After a short procedure, the appeal was approved. Today, the client is about to receive an Israeli citizenship.

Status regulation for a foreign spouse - the procedure started in front of the office of the Ministry of Interior after the couple was denied their request. This is a very complex request since the spouse is Australian but was born (as a refugee) in one of the countries of the regions defined by the Ministry of Interior as countries from which it is difficult to impossible to obtain original documents. And here, we must understand that one of the basic requirements in this procedure is to present the original documents from the country of origin. After a difficult procedure and the production of documentation and affidavits, and considering the continued refusal, the firm appealed before the Court of Appeals. Finally, the appeal was accepted, and the court ordered the decision. Eventually, the couple wedded and were required to upgrade their status from common law marriage to married couple. The procedure ended successfully, the couple passed all the tests that the state set before them. Today, the client holds a resident status in Israel, and will soon be eligible to apply for citizenship.

Unusual status regulation for a nursing care giver, who did not meet the criteria of the Population and Immigration Authority for the extension of his visa for humanitarian reasons – the patient, who is the firm’s client, is a special needs individual that came to us with his mother after his request for status regulation for his care giver was denied. This client is diagnosed with ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder) and has difficulty trusting others, especially when dealing with strangers as care givers. No institution was willing to admit him without such a care giver to accompany him due to the fear that he might harm himself or others, considering his disability.
The mother and son independently applied to the Population and Immigration Authority and even applied to the Court of Appeals after both procedures were denied. The firm appealed to the District Court on their behalf and asked them to change the decision due to the unusual circumstances, and the welfare of the patient. The court accepted the firm’s claims, yet the Ministry of Interior appealed to the Supreme Court but was denied. Even after this decision, the Ministry of Interior raised difficulties for the mother and son, and the firm was required to file an appeal with the Court of Appeals in Jerusalem, and at the end of the procedure, the care giver’s status was settled. To this day, he devotedly cares for the client and stays with him 24 hours a day. This case is a clear example that the procedures initiated and carried out by the firm led to a change in the Population and Immigration Authority’s policy and their work procedures. And indeed, after conducting this procedure, the procedure for regulating status was changed for humanitarian reasons for nursing workers and additional categories were added, that did not exist in the past.

Appealing the decision to deny entry to the country and suing the Population and Immigration Authority – representing an Israeli client that resides in the Philippines with a local partner. In one of his visits to Israel, he brought his parent home with him, upon his arrival to Ben Gurion Airport the Border’s Contril banned her from entering Israel. Due to this sensitive condition, the firm submitted an urgent claim to the Court of Appeals, that was fully granted after a 24-hour procedure, so that the client’s wife entered Israel. Under these circumstances, the client decided to sue due to the damages caused by this negligence. The court denied this claim and the firm appealed to the District Court.