For families who regard Israeli citizenship not as a document, but as the oldest insurance policy in the world. Quiet, competent counsel from application to absorption — and the key to a home that is waiting.
The men and women who built Israel in 1948 did not draft the Law of Return as an immigration policy. They drafted it as a promise — that never again would a Jewish family be turned away at a border, told there were no visas left, or be asked to prove they were worth the trouble.
For three generations, that promise has been largely theoretical for the comfortable Jewish families of London, New York, Johannesburg, Paris, and Toronto. A curiosity. A cultural birthright one might exercise, or not.
The past five years have moved the question from curiosity to prudence. Not because Israel has changed — but because the rest of the world has. A second passport, a titled property, and a legal residence in a country obligated to receive you is no longer an exotic arrangement. It is, for many of our clients, now regarded as an essential one.
We exist to make that arrangement — quietly, competently, and in a single engagement — from the first document apostilled in New York to the keys of an apartment overlooking the Mediterranean.
Every applicant's circumstance is distinct — by generation, by geography, by the condition of their documents. We select the correct pathway in the first consultation; we never apply twice.
The principal route. A person born to a Jewish mother — or with a Jewish parent, grandparent, or spouse — has the statutory right to Israeli citizenship. Four generations of evidence, carefully assembled and authenticated, is the quiet craft of this work.
A single qualifying family member opens the gate for all. Non-Jewish spouses, minor children, and in many cases adult children may receive citizenship alongside the principal applicant. The coordination of documents across a family is our discipline.
For those who wish to establish a legal Israeli footing without formally renouncing their primary residency elsewhere. An A4 or A5 visa permits presence, property ownership, healthcare access, and a calm runway toward full citizenship when the time is right.
Sephardic families displaced in 1492. Holocaust survivors whose records were destroyed. Soviet Jews whose documents bear Cyrillic inconsistencies. Adopted children. Conversions across jurisdictions. When the evidence is scattered, we assemble it.
We accept a limited number of engagements each quarter. Each is led personally by senior counsel. No call centres, no handoffs, no junior associates reviewing your family's documents.
The citizenship application, done correctly.
End-to-end representation for the aliyah or citizenship application itself — from document procurement in your home jurisdiction to your teudat zehut and passport.
Citizenship plus your Israeli residence.
Citizenship alongside the acquisition and furnishing of a property — in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Herzliya, Caesarea, or a private neighbourhood of your choosing — to stand ready.
A full parallel life, assembled.
For families relocating substantively, or maintaining an Israeli life parallel to another. A single point of contact. A full infrastructure. A team that answers to one partner.
We maintain an internal index — updated quarterly — tracking antisemitic incident rates, legal protections for Jewish communal life, education environments, and the political posture of host governments across the twenty-two countries from which the majority of our clients originate.
We do not publish it. But we share it privately with every client, in the first consultation. It answers, plainly, the question that brought you here: am I reading the room correctly, or am I overreacting?
Request the latest reading →Seven stages, handled by a single partner. No client ever repeats themselves to a different team member. No document is ever misplaced.
A ninety-minute conversation — in person in Tel Aviv, London, or New York, or encrypted video — conducted under engagement letter and privilege. We assess eligibility, identify the correct pathway, and are candid about the documents we will require.
We assemble the documentary proof: birth, marriage, and death records going back three to four generations; rabbinic letters of confirmation from your home community; apostilles from the relevant foreign ministries; certified Hebrew translations. This is the craft of the work, and it is where applications are won or lost.
Whether conducted at the Israeli consulate nearest you, or at Misrad HaPnim upon arrival, the interview is prepared for in detail. Our clients know the questions before they are asked. No surprise has ever cost us an application.
Your Oleh visa is issued. You select the date of your arrival — the precise minute, in many cases, matters for tax and benefits calendar purposes, and we advise accordingly. Flights can be coordinated through Nefesh B'Nefesh or arranged privately.
You are met airside. Your oleh paperwork is completed in a private suite at Ben Gurion. Transport is arranged to your accommodation — a hotel, a serviced residence, or the property we have acquired for you. Bituach Leumi and Kupat Cholim are registered the same day or next.
Whether you intend to reside, to visit, or merely to possess — the week following your arrival determines the foundation for everything after. Sal Klita registration, bank account at private-banking tier, utility connections, ulpan enrollment if desired, a fluent personal assistant if required.
The engagement does not end with your passport. For a further twelve months — longer, for Sovereign-tier engagements — we remain your single point of contact for Israeli tax filings, property matters, and the small administrative requests that accumulate when one has a life on two continents.
Citizenship on paper is a beginning. A key in the hand — to an apartment that is already yours, already furnished, already being looked after — is the fuller arrangement.
Through our property desk, we introduce clients to discreet, largely off-market opportunities in the neighbourhoods our private clients prefer: old-stone Neve Tzedek and the Herzliya seafront, the German Colony of Jerusalem, the gated enclaves of Caesarea, and the Tel Aviv towers where English-speaking staff and secure parking are as standard as marble.
We advise. We negotiate. We structure the acquisition under oleh tax benefit where applicable. And — should you wish your home to quietly earn its keep in your absence — we manage tenancies to private-bank standards.
Our firm was built on a single observation: the families who most need this work are the least served by it. The existing providers are either government agencies — competent but crowded — or boutique operators scaled for those who file their own taxes. We occupy the seat in between, and we occupy it with deliberate restraint.
We do not list clients. We do not publish case studies. The four testimonials we have permission to share are the only four you will find. Everything else is under NDA, and always has been.
Every engagement is managed end-to-end by one senior partner — an Israeli-licensed attorney or an internationally qualified solicitor. Junior staff assist only on administrative logistics. You will not, at any stage, be handed off.
We accept a fixed number of engagements each quarter. When we are full, we decline politely and suggest a date three months out. This is not scarcity marketing. It is the arithmetic of doing this properly.
We did not particularly want to move. We wanted the option to. Within nine months we had citizenship for the four of us, an apartment in Herzliya that my mother could be moved to within seventy-two hours, and — what I now think we were really paying for — the ability to stop reading the news with a pit in one's stomach.
No. The Law of Return confers full citizenship regardless of residence. Many of our clients complete their aliyah, receive their teudat zehut and Israeli passport, and return to their primary country of residence within the same week. The citizenship is permanent and inherited.
Israel permits dual and multiple citizenship without restriction. The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, and South Africa all permit holding Israeli citizenship alongside their own. We advise on the specific tax and reporting implications before you commit — which, for most clients, are modest.
A new immigrant benefits from a ten-year exemption on worldwide income and capital gains earned outside Israel. Combined with the absence of inheritance tax and favourable treatment of foreign pensions, the oleh chadash regime is among the most favourable for internationally mobile families globally. We structure the engagement to preserve the exemption in full.
This is among our core specialisms. We have built successful files on the basis of partial Soviet records, Holocaust-era destroyed archives, post-1492 Sephardic dispersion, and complex conversion histories across multiple rabbinic jurisdictions. In over a decade of practice we have never abandoned a client's file for want of evidence.
Yes, under nearly all circumstances. The Law of Return extends to the spouse of a Jew, the spouse of a child of a Jew, and the spouse of a grandchild of a Jew. Non-Jewish spouses receive Israeli citizenship on the same terms and timeline as the Jewish applicant.
Every communication is conducted under engagement letter and, in relevant jurisdictions, attorney privilege. We do not file public records where private ones will serve. The only persons necessarily informed are the Israeli Ministry of Interior and, where relevant, a rabbinic authority in your home community whose letter we request. No employer, bank, or government in your current country of residence is notified at any stage.
For Tier One Counsel, typical engagements fall between $18,500 and $32,000 depending on jurisdictional complexity and family size. Tier Two Sanctuary engagements, including property acquisition representation, begin at $48,000 plus legal conveyance fees and applicable purchase tax. Tier Three Sovereign is priced by engagement letter after the initial consultation. We provide a fixed-fee agreement at the outset; hourly billing is not our practice.
Initial consultations are available within seven to ten working days. Engagement follows under letter within a further five working days. Document collection begins the moment you instruct us. Our current capacity permits engagement commencement in the current quarter.
We ask only what we genuinely need to route your enquiry to the correct partner. We respond within a single business day — earlier, when the matter is pressing. Every submission is held under the same privilege and confidentiality as our client engagements.
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