War Damage Rehabilitation by means of Urban Renewal Law, 5786-2026
חוק שיקום נזקי מלחמה בדרך של התחדשות עירונית, תשפ"ו-2026
Published: 2026-04-05Consolidated Hebrew text as of 2026-08-13 · Last amended 2026-04-05✓ Amendment status checked against the Knesset legislation record on 2026-09-28
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Section B: The Advisory Team for the Purpose of a Declaration
The Advisory Team§
10.
(a)For the purpose of making a recommendation pursuant to section 3, an advisory team shall be established whose members are –
(1)the Administrator of the Planning Administration, who shall serve by virtue of his office and may authorise his deputy in his stead, and who shall be the chairperson;
(2)a Deputy Attorney General authorised for this purpose by the Attorney General;
(3)the Urban Renewal Authority Administrator, who shall serve by virtue of his office and may authorise his deputy or the head of the planning division at the Authority in his stead;
(4)the Budget Director at the Ministry of Finance, who shall serve by virtue of his office and may authorise the deputy budget director authorised by him for this purpose in his stead;
(5)the Property Tax Administrator, who shall serve by virtue of his office and may authorise his deputy or the head of the urban renewal field at the Property Tax and Compensation Fund Division at the Israel Tax Authority in his stead;
(6)the Chief Government Valuer, who shall serve by virtue of his office and may authorise his deputy in his stead;
(7)the head of the local authority within whose area the area designated for declaration is situated, who shall serve by virtue of his office and may authorise his deputy in his stead.
(b)An academic faculty member of a recognised institution as its meaning in the Council for Higher Education Law, 5718-1958, who is a member of the advisory committee to the Minister of Finance pursuant to section 2a(a)(11) of the Land Acquisition Ordinance, shall be an observer on the Advisory Team.
(c)The quorum at meetings of the Advisory Team is a majority of its members including the chairperson; decisions of the Advisory Team shall be adopted by a majority of the votes of the members participating in and voting at the meeting; where the votes are equal, the chairperson's vote shall be decisive.
(d)The Advisory Team may determine its work procedures and deliberation procedures, to the extent that they have not been prescribed under this Law; where the Team has so determined, its work procedures and deliberation procedures shall be published on the internet website of the Planning Administration.
(e)The existence of the Advisory Team, its powers and the validity of its decisions shall not be affected by reason of the termination of office of any member of the Advisory Team, or by reason of a defect in the appointment of a member or in the continuation of that member's office, provided that a majority of its members are serving.
Recommendation of the Advisory Team§
11.
(a)The Advisory Team may recommend to the Government the designation of rehabilitation and renewal areas pursuant to section 3, and shall include in its recommendations the particulars set out in section 5.
(b)The Advisory Team may include in its recommendation plots pursuant to section 4, and for this purpose shall rely, inter alia, on the professional opinions detailed in that section; in making its recommendation the Advisory Team shall also take into account the following:
(1)the economic feasibility of implementing the project in the area designated for declaration as a rehabilitation and renewal area, including by means of State assistance in its financing, inter alia on the basis of a professional opinion of an engineer on behalf of the Property Tax Administrator, who shall determine the cost of the damage rehabilitation expenses incurred in respect of the buildings in that area; the cost of alternative housing expenses shall be included in that cost;
(2)the approved and deposited plans and the plans in respect of which a decision to deposit has been made, applicable to the area designated for declaration as a rehabilitation and renewal area.
(c)The professional opinions referred to in subsection (b) shall be published on the internet website of the Planning Administration within three working days of the date of their submission and no later than 21 working days before the transmission of the Advisory Team's recommendation to the Government.
Comments on the Notice of Recommendation§
12.
(a)The Administrator of the Planning Administration shall publish a notice, at least 21 working days before the transmission of the Advisory Team's recommendation to the Government, of the intention to recommend an area as a rehabilitation and renewal area (in this section – notice of recommendation), together with the professional opinions submitted to the Advisory Team pursuant to this Chapter, and shall state the address and the dates for the submission of comments on the notice of recommendation and the manners of submitting them; such notice shall be published in all of the following:
(1)the internet website of the Planning Administration;
(2)the internet website of the local authority within whose area the area designated for declaration is situated;
(3)on a sign in a prominent place in the area designated for declaration, having regard as far as possible to the situation in the area, inter alia by reason of the war damage.
(b)Any person who considers himself harmed by the notice of recommendation may submit written comments within 14 working days of the date of the last publication pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a); the Advisory Team shall deliberate on and decide the comments.
Transmission of the Advisory Team's Recommendation to the Government§
13.
The Advisory Team shall submit to the Government its recommendation in respect of the area recommended for declaration, the professional opinions submitted to it pursuant to this Chapter, the comments submitted to it and its decisions thereon, as well as the position of the head of the local authority within whose area the area is situated, if that head opposes the recommendation.
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Section A: Provisions regarding Plans in a Rehabilitation and Renewal Area
Permits and Land Division during an Interim Period§
14.
Where the Government has declared a rehabilitation and renewal area, no building permits, permits for the use of land or approval of a land division survey plan shall be granted in that area during a period of 60 working days from the date of the declaration or until conditions are set pursuant to section 78 of the Planning Law by the planning authority, whichever is earlier.
Existing Plan in a Rehabilitation and Renewal Area§
15.
(a)Where a rehabilitation and renewal area has been declared and there exists an approved plan whose purpose is evacuation for the purpose of construction or densification of construction, whose boundaries are identical to the boundaries of the declaration of the rehabilitation and renewal area, and which includes all the plots in the rehabilitation and renewal area that were included in the declaration pursuant to sections 3 and 4(1) to (3), that plan shall be deemed a plan approved pursuant to the provisions of this Law; for this purpose, the boundaries shall be deemed identical even if they do not include the public plots that were included in the declaration pursuant to section 4(4) or some of them; the chairperson of the relevant planning authority shall notify the chairperson of the local committee thereof within seven working days of the date of the declaration.
(b)Where a rehabilitation and renewal area has been declared and there exists, at the date of the declaration, a plan that has been deposited or in respect of which a decision to deposit has been made, whose purpose is evacuation for the purpose of construction or densification of construction, the following provisions shall apply:
(1)If the boundaries of that plan are identical to the boundaries of the declaration, the planning authority that decided to deposit it shall continue to deliberate on it, and if it approved the plan, the plan shall be deemed a plan approved pursuant to this Law; where the planning authority that decided to deposit the plan was the District Committee and the plan was not approved within eight months of the date of the declaration, the plan shall be transferred to the Committee for Preferred Complexes, which shall continue to deliberate on it pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter from the stage reached by the District Committee;
(2)If the boundaries of that plan are not identical to the boundaries of the declaration, the following provisions shall apply:
(a)The planner of the planning authority that decided to deposit the plan shall notify the Director of the Planning Administration within seven working days of the date of the declaration whether it is possible to adapt the plan to the boundaries of the declaration without a re-deposit proceeding; where the planner of the planning authority notified that the plan can be adapted as aforesaid, the provisions of paragraph (1) shall apply; the provisions of this sub-paragraph shall also apply if the plan has not yet been deposited and the planner of the planning authority examined whether re-deposit would have been required in order to adapt it to the boundaries of the declaration had it been deposited;
(b)The planning authority shall not continue to deliberate on the plan unless it has adapted the boundaries of the plan to the boundaries of the declaration;
(c)Where the planner of the planning authority notified that it is not possible to adapt the plan to the boundaries of the declaration without re-deposit as referred to in sub-paragraph (a), or did not give notice as aforesaid within seven working days, the decision to deposit the plan shall be deemed void, and if the plan was deposited — notice thereof shall be published in the manner in which notice of deposit is published.
(c)In this section, "planning authority" — as defined in the Planning Law.
Submission of a Rehabilitation and Renewal Plan and the Time Limit for its Submission and Deposit§
16.
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 61a of the Planning Law —
(1)A rehabilitation and renewal plan shall be submitted to the local committee by a local authority or a local committee only, each within the area of its jurisdiction, provided that it has given written notice to the Director of the Planning Administration and to the Director of the Urban Renewal Authority within 21 days of the date of the declaration that it wishes to submit the plan;
(2)Where the local authority or the local committee did not give notice as referred to in paragraph (1), or gave such notice but the plan was not submitted within three months of the date of the declaration, or a plan as aforesaid was not deposited within six months of the date of the declaration, the local committee shall no longer be competent to deliberate on a rehabilitation and renewal plan, and the Urban Renewal Authority shall submit to the Committee for Preferred Complexes, within three months of the expiry of the said period, as the case may be, a rehabilitation and renewal plan; a Government ministry or an authority established pursuant to law, including the Urban Renewal Authority, or a Government company for which the subject matter falls within its field of activity, may notify the Director of the Urban Renewal Authority, within seven working days of the expiry of the said period, as the case may be, of their intention to submit such a plan; where notice was given by more than one body as aforesaid, the plan shall be submitted to the Committee for Preferred Complexes by the body that first gave notice thereof;
(3)Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2), a rehabilitation and renewal plan within the jurisdiction of two or more local authorities shall be submitted to the Committee for Preferred Complexes by the Government Urban Renewal Authority within three months of the date of the declaration;
(4)The Chairperson of the National Council may, upon the request of the local committee and by a reasoned written decision, extend the period referred to for deposit in paragraph (2), in one or more additional periods that shall not together exceed 60 working days.
Documents to be Submitted to the Local Committee upon Submission of a Rehabilitation and Renewal Plan§
17.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 61a and 62b(e) of the Planning Law, where a rehabilitation and renewal plan has been submitted to the local committee by a local committee or a local authority — the comments of the engineer of the local committee following a preliminary planning examination as referred to in section 62b(e) of the Planning Law shall be submitted together with the submission of the plan to the local committee.
Powers of the Local Committee§
18.
Where a rehabilitation and renewal plan has been submitted to the local committee by the local committee or by the local authority as referred to in section 16(1), the local committee shall have, with respect to that plan, all the powers vested pursuant to the Planning Law in a local committee and in a district committee, subject to the following provisions:
(1)The density to be determined in the plan shall not be less than the density determined by the Government pursuant to section 5(2);
(2)None or more of those listed in section 62a(f) of the Planning Law apply to the plan;
(3)Where public-purpose uses have been determined in the plan for a plot that is not designated solely for public purposes — the total permitted building area for those uses shall not exceed 10% of the total permitted building area on the plot, above ground level; in this paragraph, "public purposes" — a kindergarten including a day care centre for early childhood, a house of worship, a clinic and a neighbourhood community centre, as well as uses for the purposes of education, welfare, religion and culture and community institutions, as shall be determined by Order by the Minister of the Interior; in such an Order the Minister of the Interior may determine different uses for one plot or for several plots.
Approval of a Rehabilitation and Renewal Plan by the Local Committee§
19.
The local committee shall decide to approve a rehabilitation and renewal plan or to approve it with amendments, to set conditions for its approval or to reject it, within 12 months of the date of its submission; the Chairperson of the National Council may, upon the request of the local committee, by a reasoned written decision, extend the said period in one or more additional periods that shall not together exceed 60 working days.
Powers of the Committee for Preferred Complexes§
20.
(a)A rehabilitation and renewal area shall be deemed a preferred complex declared pursuant to section 3(a)(3) of the Preferred Complexes Law; however, the provisions of section 3(g) of that Law shall not apply to such a complex.
(b)With respect to the promotion of a rehabilitation and renewal plan in the Committee for the Promotion of Preferred Complexes, the following provisions shall apply:
(1)Section 4(a) of the Preferred Complexes Law — shall not apply;
(2)The provisions of section 9(a) to (b1) of the Preferred Complexes Law — shall not apply;
(3)The recommendation of the local committee shall be attached to the plan; where the local committee did not give its recommendation within 30 working days of the date on which the plan submitter approached it, the plan shall be submitted without its recommendation;
(4)Where a rehabilitation and renewal plan has been submitted to the Committee for Preferred Complexes and was not approved within the periods prescribed in this Law, the chairperson of the Committee for Preferred Complexes shall report thereon to the Government and to the Interior and Environmental Protection Committee of the Knesset, within seven days of the day on which the dates prescribed in this Law have passed.
Transfer of a Plan to the Committee for Preferred Complexes§
21.
(a)Notwithstanding the provisions of section 16(2), where a local committee has decided to deposit a rehabilitation and renewal plan and the plan was not deposited within six months of the date of the declaration, the plan shall be transferred to the Committee for Preferred Complexes, and for this purpose the provisions of section 22(b) shall apply.
(b)Where a rehabilitation and renewal plan was deposited by the local committee and was not approved by the date referred to in section 19, it shall be transferred to the Committee for Preferred Complexes; the Committee for Preferred Complexes may continue proceedings from the stage reached by the local committee.
Approval of a Rehabilitation and Renewal Plan by the Committee for Preferred Complexes§
22.
(a)The Committee for Preferred Complexes shall decide, within 12 months of the date of submission of a rehabilitation and renewal plan, whether to approve it or to approve it with amendments, to set conditions for its approval or to reject it; the Chairperson of the National Council may, upon the request of the Committee for Preferred Complexes, by a reasoned written decision, extend the said period in one or more additional periods that shall not together exceed 60 working days.
(b)Where a rehabilitation and renewal plan has been transferred to the Committee for Preferred Complexes pursuant to the provisions of section 21, the Committee for Preferred Complexes shall decide, within six months of the date on which the plan was transferred to it, whether to approve the plan or to approve it with amendments, to set conditions for its approval or to reject it; the Chairperson of the National Council may, upon the request of the Committee for Preferred Complexes, by a reasoned written decision, extend the said period in one or more additional periods that shall not together exceed 60 working days.
(c)The Committee for Preferred Complexes may continue proceedings from the stage reached by the local committee.
Special Provisions regarding a Rehabilitation and Renewal Plan§
23.
(a)A rehabilitation and renewal plan shall include all the provisions enabling the grant of a building permit by virtue thereof, without the need for the approval of an additional plan or the approval of a body that is not a licensing authority, or coordination or consultation with it as a condition for granting the permit; where it is determined in the plan that the approval of a licensing authority, or coordination or consultation with it, is required, the plan shall set out the conditions or documents required for fulfilling that approval, coordination or consultation and the time period for their fulfilment by the licensing authority, provided that such period shall not exceed six months from the date of sending all the said documents to the licensing authority by electronic means; where the prescribed time period has elapsed, this shall be deemed fulfilment of the obligation of approval, coordination or consultation, as the case may be.
(b)Where a rehabilitation and renewal plan that is not a fast-track licensing plan as defined in section 25 includes provisions for consolidation and division without consent, pursuant to Section G of Chapter III of the Planning Law, the following provisions shall apply:
(1)In the assessment of the value of a prior plot as referred to in section 122 of the Planning Law in which war damage has occurred, its value shall be assessed as if the war damage had not occurred therein;
(2)Notwithstanding the provisions of section 124 of the Planning Law, the plan shall determine that the commencement of the validity of the new division shall be on the day of receipt of an application for the first permit in the consolidation and division complex that is consistent with the new division, including an application submitted by a permit authorised person pursuant to section 158ax of that Law (in this section — an application for the first permit); for this purpose, a person entitled to be registered in the land register pursuant to the new division as referred to in section 125 of the Planning Law shall be deemed entitled to submit an application for a permit;
(3)In section 125(a) and (b) of the Planning Law, in every place, instead of "eight months" read "four months";
(4)Notice of receipt of an application for the first permit shall be given to the Planning Administration within three working days of the date of receipt of the application, and notice thereof shall be published on the websites of the Planning Administration and of the relevant local committee within seven working days of the date of receipt of the application.
(c)Where a rehabilitation and renewal plan includes a structure that is not a destroyed building, the plan shall include a provision to the effect that until the structure is demolished, subject to the provisions of any law, the uses that were permitted in the structure on the eve of the commencement of the plan shall continue to be permitted.
Restriction on an Additional Plan§
24.
Where a rehabilitation and renewal plan has been approved, no other plan shall be submitted or approved, during a period of ten years from the date of approval, in the area to which the plan applies, with respect to building areas and the number of housing units, if it is capable of delaying the implementation of the rehabilitation and renewal plan; in this section, "plan" — excluding a thematic plan as defined in section 62a(h)(1) of the Planning Law.
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