Our office was founded in 2004 by attorney and economist Arie Saar, an expert in municipal taxation and in leading negotiations with senior officials in municipalities and the Ministry of the Interior since 1987.
With expertise in both economics and law, we navigate Israel’s dynamic economic and legal landscape and understand the significant impact it has on businesses. In this environment, clients need an entrepreneurial and creative approach from their attorneys—one that promotes forward thinking and ensures tailored solutions for their unique and evolving needs, while also enabling the efficient and profitable use of their real estate assets.
Every CEO or business owner knows that optimizing real estate usage directly increases net profit. To achieve this, we work to reduce our clients’ tax liabilities and levies while maximizing the efficient use of their properties. We take a comprehensive approach that safeguards our clients’ financial interests when dealing with regulatory authorities.
Our skilled team, which leads these processes for our clients, comprises both legal and economic professionals—not just a single attorney. To support our work, we receive ongoing technical and financial assistance from Erelim Assets Ltd., a company with over 30 years of experience in financial assessments, property surveying, and investigations into real estate data and municipal billing practices.
We take great satisfaction in achieving success for our clients, who experience firsthand the personal service we provide and the outstanding results we deliver.
Thanks to our professionalism, determination, extensive experience, and meticulous work, we have helped our clients save billions of shekels in property tax and levies—both in ongoing payments and future charges. We have also won lawsuits across various judicial forums and resolved major financial disputes with municipalities and water and sewage corporations, securing highly favorable settlements to our clients’ satisfaction.
The firm specializes in increasing the profitability of companies and organizations through reducing expenses and optimal planning of tax and levy payments to local authorities and water and sewage corporations, while providing creative solutions, leading negotiations and formulating legal arrangements with municipal and institutional bodies in the following areas:
LL.B. degree and B.A in Social Sciences (Tel Aviv University); Certificate in Real Estate Management
(Continuing Education School of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology).
Mr. Saar has been working in the field of municipal and real property taxation, levies and special
assessments since 1987. He previously served as a city council member, executive board member, and planning and building committee member. He possesses a broad knowledge in municipalities’ work and policy processes. In addition, he is experienced in representing real property owners and holders before municipalities and governmental agencies.
Mr. Saar represents clients in all courts and in negotiations and resolutions of challenging disputes. He represents and advises large-scale clients in intricate negotiations with senior officials in municipalities and the Ministry of Interior. Mr. Saar is an expert in complex real estate transactions including all taxation implications.
In the past, Mr. Saar served as an external consultant on municipal taxation and levies at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Haifa and the North.
During his studies, he managed the PERACH national program for social impact at Tel Aviv University.
In 1989, he founded Erelim Ltd., a company that specializes in conducting economic reviews of
municipal tax charges and levies.
In 1990, he was elected to serve as a member of Ariel city council and was a member of the executive committee, planning and building committee and education committee.
As of 1994, he serves as a consultant to government agencies on issues of municipal tax charges and
levies.
In 2004, he established the Law Office of Arie Saar Associates.
LL.B. degree (cum laude), Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.
Ms. Feldman has been working in the field of municipal taxation since 2002. She handles cases for
institutional clients that often hold/own a multitude of assets. Ms. Feldman in an expert in municipal tax exemptions and discounts. She represents financial groups and institutions and acquired a broad
knowledge and experience in litigation and negotiations, and her skills yielded significant financial
achievements for the office’s clients.
LL.B. degree.
Mr. Khoury was admitted to practice law in 2002. He has been involved in the field of
family and youth, as well as in areas of collections and writ of execution, for 20 years.
Mr. Khoury is highly experienced in representing creditors and debtors in a variety of collections related cases, including writ of execution, consolidation of cases, foreclosures, bankruptcy proceedings, debt settlement and more. All while providing professional guidance to his client in order to achieve a unique solution for each situation.
In the field of family law (divorce, alimony, guardianship, juvenile law, prenuptial agreement,
inheritance and will, etc.), Mr. Khoury specialized in reaching fair and balanced settlements, and has
extensive experience in handling cases professionally, fairly and with great sensitivity, to the full
satisfaction of his many clients.
LL.B. degree.
Mr. Turgeman has been engaged in areas of development levies, real estate and civil law
since 2011. Over the years, he has represented dozens of local authorities, as well as water and
sewerage corporations, in collection claims, provided expert opinions, conducted negotiates, drafted legal documents and litigated cases on behalf of local authorities in various courts. In the past year, he has stopped representing local authorities and joined our office, which represents many institutional and economic entities and business companies. Mr. Turgeman’s extensive experience in representing local authorities enables him to accomplish remarkable achievements for our clients, who are assessed with large sums of money by municipalities and water and sewerage corporations.
For the past five years, Revital has been leading the office’s administrative field. She is always happy to assist our clients courteously and efficiently.
By virtue of her skills, she also assists the attorneys with handling various customer-related tasks and
processes.
