Tzvi Shoob Law Offices

Tzvi Shoob Law Offices is one of Israel’s leading real-estate law firms, with emphasis and in-depth expertise in the field of planning and construction and the litigation accompanying. The firm has expertise in promoting and managing planning and zoning procedures and real-estate betterment, including objections to plans (including merger and parcellation plans, preservation etc.), treatment of the levy, compensation claims for planning-related damage and appropriations, preferred residential zones proceedings (promotion and objections), planning and permits proceedings etc., proceedings relating to real estate infrastructure, trains, light rail, heavy rail and metro, everything including representation before various planning authorities and various government agencies.

In addition, the firm has expertise in facilitating real-estate transactions – combination, sales, Tama 38, revenue sharing, Pinui-Binui, and purchasing groups transactions, Israeli Lands Authority lands transactions, wills preparation and real-estate taxation. The firm has extensive experience and expertise in managing legal proceedings for partnerships break-up, eviction and dislodgment, endowments, tort claims relating to real estate, estate and inheritance management and more, before the various tribunals. The firm is headed by Adv. Tzvi Shoob, an expert on legal, planning and commercial aspects of real-estate and planning and zoning. Adv. Shoob founded the firm in early 2006. Formerly, he worked for many years in the real-estate departments of his father’s – The Late Adv. Moshe Shoob, one of the leaders of this Practice area – firm. Adv. Shoob is an associate member of the Chamber of Appraisers and a member of the Appraisal Academy, and lectures in professional conventions, The Lawyer Training Institute of the Israeli Bar Association, the Appraisal Academy, the Chamber of Appraisers etc., and regularly publishes articles in professional journals and the media.

Real Estate Newsletter

An internet newsletter established by the office focusing on real estate, planning, and construction, which includes updates on legal decisions and legislation distributed to the office’s clients, stakeholders in the real estate industry, various professional websites - such as the Bar Association, the Chamber of Certified Public Accountants, the Academy of Appraisers, the heads of appeal committees, various legal databases, and more. A real estate lawyer newsletter is published monthly as a consolidated monthly bulletin, and during the month, online newsletters, short articles, and important or current fundamental legal decisions are published.

Office Vision

Providing professional, thorough, and in-depth service to all its clients, with an emphasis on providing comprehensive solutions in all real estate matters, based on comprehensive understanding and expertise in the field, and representing clients, companies and individuals, against various authorities and assessments in the best possible manner, leads to comprehensive coverage and provides a comprehensive view of all the requirements for promoting the real estate property, from the stage of unplanned land to incorporating an approved plan and the accompanying procedures, land allocation, and more.

The Firm’s Practice Areas

Planning and Zoning and LitigationReal Estate and Planning
• Plan promotion and real-estate betterment – representation of rights owners before the various planning institutes, authorities and tribunals in all aspects of the promotion of planning procedures in order to increase and realize the value of properties and enable realization and construction in them– including merging and parcellation, planning and permits, with the support of the required consultants, such as architects and real-estate appraisers. For example, rezoning agricultural land, promoting detailed plans under general master plans.
• Expertise in handling preferred residential zone plans, promotion/objections.
• Handling betterment charges in order to reduce or annul them, including proceedings before deciding appraisers, appeal committees, and courts.
• Supporting objections to harmful plans – representation objectors before planning institutes and representation of initiators against objections to the plans they are promoting.
• Handling expropriation claims and compensation for harmful plans (Provision 197 of The Planning and Building Law) – representation of landowners and entities which were harmed by plans and/or expropriations, including roads and railways expropriations, including taxation aspects of the proceedings. Extensive experience in increasing the compensation sums and complex lawsuits vis-a-vis various authorities: The National Road Company, Israel Railways, local commissions and more or, alternatively, representing compensating entrepreneurs who are sued in such lawsuits.
• Litigation in various complex real-estate -related cases: counseling and litigating on real-estate, planning and zoning and lands issues, concerning the essence of land rights, possession and use aspects, partnerships break-ups, contract law, evictions and compensations, protected residence and more, both privately and before various authorities and courts, all from a comprehensive view of the proceedings, encompassing the planning and zoning laws, the real-estate aspects and the title aspects, and managing them optimally in order to maximize the clients’ rights in accordance with their needs.

The Office’s Customers

Among the office’s clients are, inter alia: the Rubinstein family/Yarkon Company, Amot Investments Ltd., Gindi National Towers Ltd., the Accountants’ Association, the Teachers’ Association, Europa Israel Ltd., Hanson Israel Ltd., C. Building Adi Ad Ltd., Robot Properties Ltd., Shem-Av Properties and Investments Ltd., Pension and Insurance Fund, High School Builders Ltd., Rotman Abraham & Co., Effi Capital Ltd., Saleet Ltd., Jubilees Ltd., Abraham Amram Ltd., Almog Group Ltd., the Philharmonic Orchestra, Intercolony Towers Ltd., Reisdor Towers Ltd., Partam Buildings Ltd. owned by Mr. Yigal Ahuvi, Carmeli Yoliad Ltd., owned by the Ofer family and the Abada family, Olympia Ltd., Ravad Ltd., Zemach Hammerman Ltd., Bar Yehuda Eng. Ltd., Ofer Kofman Construction Company, Lenny Group Ltd., Ashtrom, Hanan Mor Group, Builders’ Association, Zilli Properties Ltd./Bronner family, Namdar Projects Ltd., Sharon Planting Ltd./Ben Ezra family, Ganei Alon Ltd., organizations, contractors, and other entrepreneurs. In addition, many companies and private owners throughout the country are also clients of the office, in the Segula and Yarkonim complex in Petah Tikva, dozens of landowners in the Sayarim Junction area in Holon, in the Hadera area, in the Ben Gurion Airport compound, in Rishon LeZion, hundreds of property rights owners in the new central station in Tel Aviv, owners of event halls, hotels, protected and holding residents, owners of properties for conservation in Tel Aviv, owners of land for construction throughout the country, non-profit organizations, dedications, Joint Israel, the Hebrew University Endowment Fund, many property owners across the country have been affected by Metrovaad plans.