War Damage Rehabilitation by means of Urban Renewal Law, 5786-2026

The purpose of this Law is the rehabilitation of areas that have been harmed by war damage by means of urban renewal, while striking a balance between the public interest in the rapid, efficient and optimal promotion of urban renewal and the preservation of the individual's right of ownership.

"rehabilitation and renewal area" – as its meaning in section 3;

"condominium" – one of the following:

"building" – as defined in the Planning Law, except for a structure as referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) of that definition;

"destroyed building" – a building that has sustained war damage, and the engineer of the local authority within whose area the building is situated has determined, for the purposes of this Law, that by reason of that damage it has been destroyed or is to be destroyed;

"apartment owner" – as defined in the Evacuation-Construction Law, including the holder of a right in real property in a rehabilitation and renewal area who, on the eve of the occurrence of the war damage, owned an apartment in a building in a rehabilitation and renewal area;

"plot owner" – an owner, including a long-term lessee, of a plot as its meaning in section 4(3);

"substitute apartment" – one of the following, as the case may be:

"alternative housing expenses" – as their meaning in regulation 2(c) of the Property Tax Regulations;

"damage rehabilitation expenses" – as defined in the Property Tax Regulations;

"organisation agreement" – an agreement for the organisation of an urban renewal transaction as defined in the Agreements for the Organisation of Transactions Law;

"exit agreement" – an agreement between a developer and an apartment owner in a rehabilitation and renewal area pursuant to which the apartment owner undertakes to sell all of that owner's rights in the real property to the developer for the monetary consideration referred to in section 38(a)(1) or 43(a)(3)(a), as the case may be;

"enhanced exit agreement" – an exit agreement to which the provisions of section 38 apply;

"the Preferred Complexes Committee" – the National Planning and Building Committee for Preferred Complexes, established pursuant to section 5 of the Preferred Complexes Law;

"the Objections Committee" – as its meaning in section 9a(b) of the Land Acquisition Ordinance;

"Privacy Protection Law" – Privacy Protection Law, 5741-1981;

"Agreements for the Organisation of Transactions Law" – Urban Renewal (Agreements for the Organisation of Transactions) Law, 5777-2017;

"Real Property Taxation Law" – Real Property Taxation (Appreciation and Acquisition) Law, 5723-1963;

"Property Tax Law" – Property Tax and Compensation Fund Law, 5721-1961;

"Land Law" – Land Law, 5729-1969;

"Preferred Complexes Law" – Law for the Promotion of Construction in Preferred Complexes (Temporary Provision), 5774-2014;

"Evacuation-Construction Law" – Evacuation-Construction Law (Encouragement of Evacuation-Construction Projects), 5766-2006;

"Government Authority Law" – Government Urban Renewal Authority Law, 5776-2016;

"Planning Law" – Planning and Construction Law, 5725-1965;

"rehabilitation developer" – a developer approved as a rehabilitation developer pursuant to section 40;

"organiser" – as defined in the Agreements for the Organisation of Transactions Law;

"planning institution" – the local committee or the Preferred Complexes Committee;

"declaration date" – the date on which the declaration of a rehabilitation and renewal area enters into force;

"urban renewal project" – as defined in the Government Authority Law;

"Property Tax Administrator" – the Administrator as defined in the Property Tax Law;

"Urban Renewal Authority Administrator", "the Administrator" – the Administrator of the Urban Renewal Authority appointed pursuant to section 5 of the Government Authority Law;

"war damage" – as defined in section 35 of the Property Tax Law;

"transaction with an apartment owner" – a contract between a developer and an apartment owner in a rehabilitation and renewal area pursuant to which the apartment owner undertakes to sell all of that owner's rights in the real property to the developer for the purpose of constructing a new structure or densifying an existing structure, in accordance with a rehabilitation and renewal plan, which includes, inter alia, all of the following:

"transaction with a plot owner" – a contract between a developer and a plot owner in a rehabilitation and renewal area pursuant to which the plot owner undertakes to sell that owner's rights in the plot for the purpose of implementing a rehabilitation and renewal plan;

"transaction under a strengthening plan" – as defined in the Agreements for the Organisation of Transactions Law;

"evacuation-construction transaction" – as defined in the Evacuation-Construction Law;

"rehabilitation transaction" – a transaction with an apartment owner or a transaction with a plot owner;

"Land Acquisition Ordinance" – Land Acquisition (Public Purposes) Ordinance, 1943;

"the Advisory Team" – as its meaning in section 10;

"density" – net density or gross density, as defined in the Integrated National Master Plan for Building, Development and Conservation (National Master Plan 35);

"special majority of apartment owners" – one or more of the following:

for the purposes of this definition, a plot that does not contain a building as referred to in section 4(3) shall be deemed a plot containing one apartment;

"Urban Renewal Authority" – the Government Urban Renewal Authority, as defined in the Government Authority Law;

"rehabilitation and renewal plan" – a local outline plan or a detailed plan whose boundaries are identical to the boundaries of a rehabilitation and renewal area declared pursuant to section 3, the purpose of which is evacuation for the purpose of construction or densification of construction in a rehabilitation and renewal area; for this purpose, the boundaries shall be deemed identical even if they do not include the public plots that were included within the boundaries of the declaration pursuant to section 4(4);

"Property Tax Regulations" – Property Tax and Compensation Fund (Payment of Compensation) (War Damage and Indirect Damage) Regulations, 5733-1973.

The boundaries of a rehabilitation and renewal area shall include the plot or plots in which a destroyed building as referred to in section 3(a), or buildings as referred to in section 3(b), is situated, and the following additional plots may be included in that area, all in accordance with the recommendation of the Advisory Team:

A declaration of a rehabilitation and renewal area pursuant to section 3 (in this Section – the declaration) shall include all of the following, all in accordance with the recommendation of the Advisory Team:

Notice of a declaration pursuant to section 3 shall be published on the internet website of the Planning Administration and shall include the particulars pursuant to section 5.

A rehabilitation and renewal area declared pursuant to section 3 shall also be deemed an evacuation-construction complex declared pursuant to section 14(a)(1) of the Government Authority Law, and the provisions of section 14(f) of that Law shall apply to it, with the following modification: instead of "the Authority Administrator" read "the Government".