Adv. Hagit Ben Moshe

Hagit Ben Moshe

Hagit is one of the leading attorneys in Israel advising kibbutzim, moshavim, and cooperative societies in relation to all real-estate matters, including planning, construction, and litigation.

Hagit provides legal advice and assistance in relation to complex real estate transactions and business ventures. These include transactions to rezone agricultural land for commerce and employment; renewable energy and infrastructure transactions (power plants, pumped-storage hydroelectricity, wind turbines, solar, thermo-solar, photovoltaic, and biogas turbines); the establishment of commercial complexes; income-generating real estate transactions, tourism ventures (holiday villages, hotels, guest houses, B&Bs, and tourist attractions); the establishment of fuel stations; electricity sector transactions (electricity distributors, net metering, electricity purchases); medical cannabis; and more.

Hagit provides advice and assistance to her clients throughout all stages of a transaction – negotiations with entrepreneurs; finding the desirable corporate structure; financing aspects; reporting to the tax authorities; the obtainment of all requisite approvals, including the receipt of approvals from lien-holders, if any; and completion of land rezoning proceedings with both the planning and building authorities and the Israel Land Authority.

Hagit has extensive experience advising kibbutzim, moshavim and cooperative societies during various proceedings with the Israel Land Authority. These include proceedings to regulate land uses, cases of demands to return land to the State (inter alia, due to plans for construction in preferred areas for housing), objections to real-estate assessments, and the obtainment of permits for nonconforming use from the competent authority in the Ministry of Agriculture. She also provides ongoing and intensive legal assistance to cooperative societies in relation to diverse issues, including members’ rights to residences (attribution of housing, restructuring of the society, etc.).

Hagit boasts extensive experience representing cooperative societies before planning and building committees and appeals committees, as well as during appeals to administrative affairs courts and in petitions to the High Court of Justice.

In addition to her legal practice, Hagit is a lecturer at national and regional conferences, seminar days, continuing education courses, etc.

Prominent legal directory The Legal 500 ranks Hagit in the Real Estate and Construction and Energy practice areas.

Before joining our firm in 2019, Hagit was a partner and the head of the real estate in the cooperative societies department at a leading law firm.

Education:

Bar Ilan University, LL.M. 2004

Bar Ilan University, LL.B. Cum Laude 2003

Admission:

Member of Israel Bar Association since 2004

Insights & News - Hagit Ben Moshe:

February 26, 2025

Adv. Hagit Ben Moshe Moderated at the national conference of Renewable Energy 2025

Adv. Hagit Ben Moshe, partner and head of the Kibbutz Sector at our firm, was invited to speak at a national conference on Renewable Energy Projects 2025 for kibbutzim and moshavim.

the conference held by the Training Center for Renewal, in collaboration with the Kibbutzim Movement and the Moshavim Movement in Israel.
Adv, Ben Mosh moderated on the legal aspects of agreements with entrepreneurs in the energy sector.

Revitalizing tourism in the Western Negev: The first hotel in Nir-Am

An 80 million NIS investment will fund the construction of a boutique luxury hotel in Nir-Am, on a 17-dunam plot, including a restaurant by renowned chef Eyal Shani. Advs. Hagit Ben Moshe and Netzer Bartfeld from our firm assisted the kibbutz in the transaction.

The Risks and Opportunities in the Agricultural Land Market: Purchases, Risks, and Future Projections

Leading real estate companies are investing hundreds of millions of shekels in purchasing agricultural land in high-demand areas, hoping for a change in land use and the realization of enormous profit potential.
Adv. Hagit Ben Moshe, partner and head of the Settlement Department at our firm, explains in an interview the risks and opportunities involved in purchasing agricultural land, outlining the advantages of buying agricultural land, including the economic potential within this market, as well as the challenges in realizing the land's value and the risks of delays in the planning process.