Shikma Aharon David Law Office

Shikma Aharon David Law Office is a leading and growing boutique law firm that specializes exclusively in Immigration and Labor Law.
The company’s focus on these fields allows it to specialize and offer customers a service based on comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge that enables it to ‘tailor’ a particular solution to each client.
The firm’s staff has extensive experience representing and dealing with the Population and Immigration Authority, Appeals Committees and the Courts of Appeals, the Immigration Police, Border Control, Government Ministries, and Foreign Consulates. The staff members adhere to a high level of professionalism, individualized service, availability, thoroughness, and creativity.
The firm has an in-depth understanding, expertise, and experience in these areas, and it provides its clients with excellent service by taking advantage of the procedures available to them with the least possible amount of time, expense, and litigation.
Attorney Shikma Aharon David, founder and owner of the law firm, has close ties with government ministries and the relevant authorities in Israel, as well as a deep familiarity with the corresponding agencies in many countries worldwide, which provides the firm with a distinct advantage in issuing work permits and work visas of all types quickly and efficiently. As a result, the firm is among the leading Immigration Law firms in the country.

Areas of Activity

Immigration Law - The firm offers its clients a comprehensive service package that includes, inter alia, issuing permits, work and tourism visas; Issuing visas for business purposes; assistance in the employment of nursing personnel; Dealing with regulating the status of refugees and asylum seekers; handling the registration of Paraguayan marriages and Utah marriages; Submitting humanitarian requests; requests to bring foreign elderly parents; Relocation - immigration to Israel; Citizenship, permanent residency for spouses; Managing cases of refusal of entry, and much more.

Labor Law - The Labor Law department in the office provides a comprehensive and complete legal service. The service includes, among other things, consulting on the procedures for recruiting and hiring employees, terminating their work, dealing with their retirement, representing employers in labor courts, ongoing legal advice and drafting employment contracts and work agreements with employees, service providers, contractors, and others. The firm has extensive experience in drafting collective agreements as well as managing negotiations with employee organizations.
In addition, the firm offers assistance and advice on workers’ rights and insolvency proceedings, and handles issues regarding foreign workers, including work visas.

Complementary Care Based on Experience and Expertise

Attorney Shikma Aharon David, the founder of the firm, graduated from the Faculty of Law at the College of Management in 2013, and has over 10 years of experience and expertise as a lawyer in the field of Immigration Law and Labor Law. Attorney Aharon David worked as a lawyer at the leading firms Herzog Fox Neumann Law Office and Goldfarb Gross Seligman Law Office, and in 2020 she eventually established her own boutique law office. Her specialization in both Immigration law and Labor Law allows Attorney Aharon David to provide her clients with a package of complementary care based on in-depth knowledge of both fields.
Attorney Shikma Aharon David is a member of the Immigration and Foreign Resident Status Committee of the Central District Bar Association, and volunteers at the Bar Association as a supervisor of interns and a member of the Labor Law and Social Security Association.As of 2022, she has been a volunteer with HIAS, a global organization that provides legal assistance for asylum seekers, free of charge, in matters of civil status, as well as other legal matters.
Attorney Aharon David is considered a thorough and creative lawyer and is trusted and appreciated by her clients and colleagues. Her feats of success include handling cases that were considered hopeless and achieving impressive results.

Prominent Cases

Issuing a permit to hire a foreign expert for a biotech company - An Israeli biotech company (owned by a Canadian parent company) invited a foreign expert to Israel to conduct clinical research for it.
The office applied for a visa for her based on the fact that the specialist is a well-known veterinarian with a reputation in the field of neurology, an award winner who was employed by the parent company. In April 2022, the firm submitted the request through a Foreign Expert Procedure and within only six days of receiving the Innovation Authority’s approval, the employment permit was received. In April 2023, a detailed application was submitted, supported by the necessary documents, and the visa was extended for another year.

Issuance of a permit to employ a foreign expert as a senior officer in a start-up company - An Israeli start-up company in the ophthalmology field requested to hire a foreign expert in Israel as a senior executive.
In January 2023, the office submitted to the Innovation Authority a request for a permit to employ a senior official in the company, according to the Foreign Expert Procedure. The employee, for whom the permit is sought, is a world-renowned expert, winning awards for his contribution to the field of optics and for his innovative work in the field of improving vision and eye health in a way that has affected millions of people worldwide. According to the request, the expert has technical and scientific knowledge that can propel the company to phenomenal success. In March 2023, the application was accepted, and a two-year permit was granted.

Regulating the status of spouses married in a “Paraguay marriage” - In 2017, a couple married in a Paraguayan marriage (a marriage in which the ceremony takes place in the presence of only one of the spouses). The couple lived in Israel and the decision regarding the status of the woman, who lived in Israel practically without a regulated status, went back and forth. In July 2021, the couple contacted the office to regulate the woman’s status.In August 2021, the couple had a new interview at the Interior Ministry, and in March 2022, the client received temporary resident status - A5.
In November 2023, the ministry submitted a request to extend the approval and after an additional interview was held for the couple, the visa was extended.

The rapid registration of a severely disabled infant as an Israeli citizen - The firm represented a Jewish high-tech resident of Russia who made aliyah in 2017 and after several years returned to Russia. With the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, and before he was issued a summons to enlist, his status was settled by the high-tech company in a relocation procedure in Israel. In March 2022, he got married in Russia in a flash wedding, immigrated to Israel with his wife and turned to the office to regulate her status. In May 2022, an application was submitted as mentioned and in April 2023 the client received a temporary resident visa - A5.
In July 2023, the couple welcomed a son into the world. Since the baby was impacted with a deformity, the office was urgently called to process his registration as a citizen. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to release him from the hospital without a commitment from the HMO to bear the cost of the medical treatment. Since the mother was still a foreign resident at the time, a request was submitted to the Ministry of the Interior to declare the child as an Israeli citizen. The request was accepted a few days later, and it was possible to release him from the hospital for further treatment.