Establishing a Company in Israel: A Guide for Foreign Businesses
The sequence a foreign group goes through to have a usable Israeli entity: the choice of form, registration, tax registrations and the bank file that runs alongside them.
Insights
Writing on Israeli law and practice
Articles for foreign companies, investors and private clients with a matter in Israel, and for the advisers who work alongside them. Each one describes a procedure as it actually runs here, and what it involves before it begins.
Doing Business in Israel
Doing Business in Israel: Key Legal Considerations
The decisions that shape a foreign company's Israeli activity — entity and signatures, contracts, employment, regulation, payments and where disputes are heard.
Banking and Payments
Opening a Bank Account in Israel as a Foreign Company or Individual
What an Israeli bank examines when the applicant is foreign, which file it expects to receive, and who inside the bank actually decides.
Transferring Significant Funds to Israel: Banking and Compliance Requirements
How a substantial incoming transfer is read by the receiving bank, and what is prepared before the money moves rather than after it arrives.
Source of Funds and Source of Wealth: What Israeli Banks Require
Two questions that sound alike and are answered differently, and the documentary trail that supports each of them.
Common Reasons Israeli Banks Delay or Reject International Transfers
The recurring reasons a transfer stops at the receiving end, what the bank is asking for when it stops, and how the answer is assembled.
Preparing for an Israeli Bank Compliance Review
What a periodic review of an existing account covers, what the bank asks the client to produce, and how the file is brought up to date.
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Enforcing a Foreign Judgment in Israel
What a foreign claimant faces when a judgment obtained abroad has to produce a result against assets or a debtor in Israel.
Employment and Corporate Immigration
Employing Foreign Executives and Specialists in Israel
The employment and immigration questions that arrive together when a foreign employer sends people to work in Israel.
Real Estate
Purchasing Israeli Real Estate as a Foreign Resident
How a purchase by a buyer who lives abroad is prepared: title and due diligence, the payment route, and the registration that closes it.
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