A Company or Business in an Israeli Estate: Who Keeps It Running?
When an estate includes a company, a shareholding or a going business, time works against the heirs: payroll falls due, suppliers wait, and the value of the business evaporates the day it stops trading. The Israeli Succession Law — Hok HaYerusha (חוק הירושה, 1965) — has no special regime for businesses, but it gives the […]
Leaving Poland Before 1951 or in 1968: Was Polish Citizenship Really Lost?
In families whose roots lie in pre-war Poland, one belief travels down the generations along with the photographs: “when they left, they lost their Polish citizenship.” That belief stops a great many applications that would have succeeded. Under Polish law, loss of citizenship is never presumed — it has to follow from a specific legal […]
Polish Citizenship When the Civil Registers Were Destroyed
A Polish citizenship file stands on a chain of civil-status records: the birth of the ancestor born in Poland, the marriage, then the birth of the next generation. For families whose roots are in pre-war Poland, that chain is often broken — the registers of the town of origin were destroyed during the war, dispersed, […]
Renting an Apartment in Israel: What the Fair Rental Law Requires of Landlords and Tenants
Renting an apartment in Israel, whether you are a landlord living abroad or a newcomer looking for a home, takes more than signing a template lease found online. Since the reform known as the “Fair Rental Law” (Chok Skhirut Hogenet – חוק שכירות הוגנת), which amended the Tenancy and Loan Law in 2017, residential leases […]