Shikma Aharon David Law Office

Shikma Aharon David Law Office is a leading and growing boutique firm working across three connected fields: immigration and status regularization, labor law, and national insurance - with particular emphasis on residency.
That focus is the firm’s central advantage. Instead of broad but shallow coverage, clients receive deep, current expertise at precisely the junction where status, employment, and social rights meet - and a solution built to the measure of each case.
The firm’s team has extensive experience appearing before the Population and Immigration Authority, the National Insurance Institute, the appeals tribunals, the labor courts and the administrative courts, as well as in matters involving border control, government ministries, and foreign consulates - always with personal attention, availability, thoroughness, and creativity.
The firm exhausts every avenue available to its clients - in minimum time, at minimum cost, and without unnecessary litigation.
Adv. Shikma Aharon David, the firm’s Founder and Owner, maintains close ties with the relevant government ministries and authorities in Israel and has an in-depth familiarity with their counterparts in many countries around the world - an advantage that allows work permits and visas to be issued quickly and efficiently.
Together these place the firm at the forefront of the law firms practicing immigration law in Israel.

Areas of Practice

Immigration and Status Regularization – A comprehensive service package: employment permits, work and tourist visas, business visitor visas, employment of caregivers, status regularization for refugees and asylum seekers, registration of Paraguayan and Utah marriages, humanitarian applications, aliyah and immigrant status under the Law of Return, bringing elderly parents to Israel, relocation to Israel, citizenship and permanent residency for spouses, handling entry refusals, and more.

Labor Law – Advice and support across the employment life cycle: recruitment, employment, termination, and retirement; representation of employers before the labor courts; employment contracts and agreements with suppliers and contractors; advice on employee rights and insolvency proceedings; extensive experience in the employment of foreign workers.

National Insurance - with emphasis on residency - Representation before the National Insurance Institute in residency reviews and in retroactive revocation of residency, including the contribution debts and benefit clawbacks that follow; restoring resident status for Israelis after extended periods abroad and for returning residents; establishing residency for spouses and children alongside the immigration process; entitlement to national health insurance and waiting periods; the standing of foreign workers and asylum seekers; and representation in benefit claims rejected on residency grounds, before committees and the labor courts.

Comprehensive Service Package

Adv. Shikma Aharon David, a graduate of the Faculty of Law at the College of Management Academic Studies (2013), brings over a decade of experience and combined expertise in immigration, labor law, and national insurance. Before establishing her boutique firm in 2020, she practiced at Herzog Fox & Neeman and at Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.
She is a member of the Israel Bar Association’s Immigration and Status of Foreign Residents Committee, Central District; serves as a supervisor of legal interns; is an active member of the Labor Law and Social Security Association; and, since 2025, has volunteered with the Israel Women’s Network.
Known for her thoroughness and creative thinking, Adv. Aharon David has earned the trust and respect of clients for resolving cases once deemed “lost,” often with outstanding results.

Prominent Cases

Work permits for eight foreign experts – sports projects in Ramat Gan and Tel Nof
We guided a construction company through obtaining work permits for eight foreign experts to build sports facilities. All applications were approved.

Retroactive revocation of National Insurance residency – an Israeli client after years abroad
Following five years abroad, our client’s residency was revoked retroactively on the grounds that she had not established her center of life in Israel, and her objection was rejected (May 2025) — a decision that stripped her of coverage under both the National Insurance Law and the National Health Insurance Law. The matter is now before the Regional Labor Court.

Humanitarian residence permit – a mother of three Israeli-citizen children
A foreign national whose children remained in Israel with their father, an Israeli citizen, in circumstances that included one of the minors being prevented from returning to the country of origin and proceedings under the Hague Convention on child abduction. In 2023 she uprooted her life and moved to Israel to raise her children herself. The Family Court adopted the social worker’s findings as to the daughter’s distress in the father’s home. We filed an application for a residence permit on special humanitarian grounds, allowing her to continue raising her children in Israel. The matter is ongoing.

Unreasonable delay in deciding an aliyah application – a Jewish couple from the U.S.
An application for immigrant status under the Law of Return was filed in March 2025; the documents were completed in April and the interview held in September — yet some sixteen months on, no decision had issued. We demanded a reasoned decision within 14 days and the regularization of the applicants’ stay pending it, relying on the authority’s duty to decide within a reasonable time and on section 2 of the Administrative Procedure Amendment (Decisions and Reasons) Law, 1958, with notice of an appeal to the Appeals Tribunal for failure to decide. The matter is ongoing.

The firm’s accumulated experience, in-depth knowledge, and creativity in every case ensure that clients receive effective, swift, and tailored solutions.