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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: Licensing Proceedings in a Rehabilitation and Renewal Area

Fast-Track Licensing Plan§
25.
(a)The provisions regarding a fast-track licensing plan pursuant to section 145a1 of the Planning Law (in this Law — a fast-track licensing plan) shall apply, with the necessary modifications and the following modifications, to a rehabilitation and renewal plan submitted to the local committee:
(1)Subsection (a) — shall not be read;
(2)In subsection (b), instead of the concluding part beginning with the word "provided" read "provided that the permit application applies to the entire area of the plan; however, a rehabilitation developer as defined in the War Damage Rehabilitation by means of Urban Renewal Law, 5786-2026, may submit an application as aforesaid until the deposit of the plan";
(3)In subsection (c), the concluding part beginning with the words "notwithstanding the foregoing, the Minister of the Interior" — shall not be read;
(4)Instead of subsection (d) read:

"(d) The area of the rehabilitation and renewal plan as defined in the War Damage Rehabilitation by means of Urban Renewal Law, 5786-2026, does not exceed six dunams.";

(5)Subsection (h) — shall not be read.
(b)The Minister of the Interior may prescribe in Regulations provisions regarding a rehabilitation and renewal plan submitted to the Committee for the Promotion of Preferred Complexes that is to be promoted as a fast-track licensing plan, including conditions, deliberation procedures and proceedings for the promotion of the grant of the permit by the national licensing authority.
Special Provisions regarding Approving Bodies and Information-Providing Bodies§
26.
(a)The provisions regarding an approving body or an additional body pursuant to section 145b1 of the Planning Law shall apply, with the necessary modifications and the following modifications, to an application for a permit by virtue of a rehabilitation and renewal plan that is not a fast-track licensing plan:
(1)In subsection (a)(1), instead of "15 days" read "45 days";
(2)Subsections (d) and (e) — shall not be read.
(b)Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), the Minister of the Interior may prescribe that the provisions pursuant to section 145b1 of the Planning Law shall apply to a rehabilitation and renewal plan that is a fast-track licensing plan, subject to such conditions and modifications as he shall prescribe.
Special Provisions regarding an Appeal that has been Filed§
27.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 152(b) of the Planning Law, with respect to an appeal filed against a decision of a licensing authority to grant a permit by virtue of a plan in a rehabilitation and renewal area, that section shall be read as follows:

(1)Paragraph (1) — shall not be read, except with respect to a permit granted by a permit authorised person;
(2)Instead of paragraph (2) read:

"(2) Where an appeal has been filed, the appeals committee shall examine and decide whether, in the circumstances of the matter, there is justification for staying the grant of the permit, in whole or in part, by reason of the filing of the appeal, having regard to the scope of the impact of the subject matter of the appeal on the permit and to the possibility of restoring the situation to its former state if the appeal is allowed.".

Special Provisions regarding a Permit Authorised Person§
28.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 158ax(a)(1) of the Planning Law, a permit authorised person may act for the purpose of obtaining a permit pursuant to Chapter V-D of the Planning Law, even before the consent of all holders of rights in the real property in respect of which the permit is sought has been given, provided that both of the following conditions are met:

(1)At the date of transfer of the permit application to the licensing authority pursuant to section 158ax(a) of the Planning Law, the consent of at least 51% of the holders of rights in the real property in respect of which the permit is sought has been given;
(2)One of the following has occurred before the grant of the permit:
(a)The permit authorised person sent to the holders of rights in the real property who did not give their consent a notice together with the documents of the permit application or a link to the documents of the permit application, and the decision of the local licensing authority on the objections that were filed, if filed, was received, pursuant to which the permit authorised person is entitled to grant the permit; in this paragraph, "notice" — a notice regarding the submission of the permit application, sent in accordance with the provisions prescribed by the Minister of the Interior pursuant to the Planning Law with respect to a permit application without the consent of all holders of rights in the real property, indicating the possibility of objecting to the permit application within 15 days of the date of delivery of the notice and the address of the local licensing authority to which an objection may be sent;
(b)The consent of all holders of rights in the real property in respect of which the permit is sought has been given; the permit authorised person shall transfer such consent to the licensing authority at least five days before the grant of the permit by the permit authorised person.

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Section C: Fees and Betterment Levies in a Rehabilitation and Renewal Area

Fees§
29.

Section 266d(b) of the Planning Law shall also apply with respect to a permit by virtue of a rehabilitation and renewal plan, even if it is not a plan as referred to in that section.

Rate of Betterment Levy in a Rehabilitation and Renewal Plan§
30.
(a)Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 3 and 3a of the Third Schedule of the Planning Law, the rate of the betterment levy that shall apply by reason of the approval of a rehabilitation and renewal plan (in this section — levy in a rehabilitation plan) is one quarter of the betterment.
(b)Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), a local authority may, no later than 30 working days from the date of occurrence of the war damage or from the day of commencement of this Law, whichever is later, determine with respect to a rehabilitation and renewal area within its jurisdiction that the rate of the levy in a rehabilitation plan shall stand at one half of the betterment or that the obligation to pay a levy as aforesaid shall not apply thereto.
(c)With respect to a rehabilitation and renewal plan that is a betterment plan in an evacuation-construction complex, as defined in section 15 of the Underground Rail (Metro) Law, 5782-2021 (in this section — the Metro Law), the following provisions shall apply:
(1)Where the rate of the levy in a rehabilitation plan is one quarter of the betterment or the local authority has determined that the obligation to pay a levy as aforesaid shall not apply, Section C of Chapter III of the Metro Law — shall not apply;
(2)Where the local authority has determined pursuant to subsection (b) that the rate of the levy in a rehabilitation plan shall stand at one half of the betterment, the rate of the payment obligation as defined in section 19(d)(1) of the Metro Law shall apply, and the provisions of Section C of Chapter III of the Metro Law shall apply.
(d)With respect to a decision of a local authority to determine the rate of the levy in a rehabilitation plan, the following provisions shall apply:
(1)The local authority shall publish notice of its intention to make a decision as aforesaid at least 30 days before making it;
(2)The decision shall be made having regard, inter alia, to considerations relating to land values, the existing and expected density of housing units and the development needs of that area, as well as to additional considerations to be specified in the decision;
(3)The determination as aforesaid shall apply to all rehabilitation and renewal areas within a substantial part of the area of the local authority;
(4)Where the local authority has determined that the rate of the levy in a rehabilitation plan shall stand at one half of the betterment, an amount at the rate of 30% of the levy amount shall be designated for the benefit of the rehabilitation and renewal area in accordance with the permitted uses pursuant to section 13(a) of the Third Schedule of the Planning Law; where the rehabilitation and renewal plan is a betterment plan in an evacuation-construction complex as defined in section 15 of the Metro Law, an amount at the rate of 30% of two thirds of the levy, which shall be deemed a payment of betterment levy pursuant to section 19(d)(3)(a) of the Metro Law, shall be designated for the benefit of the rehabilitation and renewal area in accordance with the permitted uses pursuant to section 13(a) of the Third Schedule of the Planning Law;
(5)Notice of a decision as referred to in the opening words and also notice pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be published in the Reshumot (Official Gazette), in a newspaper and on the website in accordance with the provisions of sections 1a and 1b of the Planning Law.
(e)The provisions of this section shall not apply to a rehabilitation and renewal plan that was approved before the declaration of a rehabilitation and renewal area.
(f)With respect to the Third Schedule of the Planning Law, in real property in which war damage has occurred, the betterment shall be calculated as if, on the eve of the commencement of the plan, the war damage had not occurred in that real property.

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Section D: Application of Provisions and Application

Application of Provisions under the Planning Law and the Preferred Complexes Law§
31.

Provisions under the Planning Law shall apply to a rehabilitation and renewal plan submitted to the local committee under this Chapter and to a permit issued by virtue thereof, and provisions under the Preferred Complexes Law shall apply to a plan submitted to the committee for preferred complexes under this Chapter or transferred to it under section 21(a) or (b) and to a permit issued by virtue thereof, all unless otherwise provided in this Chapter in respect of the same matter.

Application of Provisions of the Land Law§
32.

Provisions under the Land Law shall continue to apply in respect of the performance of work, insofar as they do not conflict with the provisions under this Law.

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Chapter IV: Approval of a Rehabilitation Developer and Acquisition of Rights in a Rehabilitation and Renewal Area

Section A: Real Property Valuation in respect of an Apartment in a Rehabilitation and Renewal Area

Conduct of Real Property Valuation and Determination of Purchase Sum§
33.
(a)No later than the end of 35 working days from the date of the declaration, the Chief Government Appraiser or a real property appraiser on his behalf (in this section – the Chief Government Appraiser) shall conduct a real property valuation in respect of each apartment in the rehabilitation and renewal area; if an apartment owner has presented to the Chief Government Appraiser, within 15 working days from the date of the declaration, data pertaining to the conduct of a real property valuation, the Chief Government Appraiser shall conduct the valuation after having examined the data.
(b)
(1)The real property valuation shall be conducted according to the value of a new apartment in the same area that is similar in its characteristics, including in its floor area, to the apartment owner's apartment, taking into account the characteristics of new apartments in the same area; the valuation shall be conducted as at the day preceding the date of the occurrence of the war damage (in this section – the determining date for the purposes of the valuation);
(2)For the purposes of calculating the floor area of an apartment, the provisions under section 3 of the Sale (Apartments) Law, 5733-1973 shall apply;
(3)The Chief Government Appraiser, after consulting with the Director of Property Tax, may instruct by guidelines what characteristics shall be taken into account in conducting a valuation under this subsection; if the Director of Property Tax has not provided his position within 21 days from the date of the approach to him, it shall be deemed, upon the expiry of that period, as though the duty of consultation with him has been fulfilled;
(4)The valuation determined under subsection (a) shall not be less than the value of the amount that would have been received from the sale of the apartment from a willing seller to a willing buyer on the eve of the occurrence of the war damage.
(c)
(1)For the purposes of section 38(a)(1), the Chief Government Appraiser shall determine a valuation as referred to in subsections (a) and (b) as though the floor area determined as referred to in subsection (b)(2) were increased by a floor area that is one of the following:
(a)if the local committee had a consideration policy in respect of additional floor area – one third of the additional floor area under such a policy;
(b)if the local committee did not have a consideration policy in respect of additional floor area – a floor area of 4 square metres for a main purpose; the Minister of Construction and Housing, with the consent of the Minister of Finance, after consulting with the Chief Government Appraiser and with the approval of the Interior and Environmental Protection Committee of the Knesset, may amend the said floor area;
(2)The Chief Government Appraiser may reduce from a valuation as referred to in paragraph (1), at his discretion, the amount equal to the value of one third of the floor area as referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or the amount equal to the value of the floor area as referred to in paragraph (1)(b), as the case may be, if he has found that the floor area of the apartment deviates significantly from the floor area of a typical residential apartment in the area;
(3)In this subsection –

"consideration policy" means a policy in respect of consideration for apartment owners in the framework of an urban renewal project, including, inter alia, in respect of additional floor area, whether determined before or after the occurrence of the war damage and no later than the end of 60 working days from the date of the occurrence of the damage or from the commencement date of this Law, whichever is later, provided that a policy as aforesaid that was determined after the occurrence of the war damage or the commencement date of this Law, whichever is later, applies in respect of a substantial area within the boundaries of the local authority;

"additional floor area" means an addition of floor area for a main purpose, including the area of an apartment safe room, to a consideration apartment relative to the floor area of the existing apartment in the framework of an urban renewal plan.

(d)The Chief Government Appraiser shall send the real property valuation to the apartment owner, no later than 40 working days from the date of the declaration, and if the apartment owner cannot be located with reasonable diligence – to the local authority within whose boundaries the rehabilitation and renewal area is located, and shall publish a notice of the details of the body at the local authority to which apartment owners in that area may apply in order to receive the real property valuation.
Objection to the Valuation§
34.

An apartment owner may submit an objection to a real property valuation determined under the provisions of section 33; the objection shall be submitted to the objections committee within 75 working days from the date of the declaration, and the provisions of section 9a of the Land Acquisition Ordinance shall apply in this respect, with the necessary modifications.

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