Adv. Hagit Ben Moshe

Hagit Ben Moshe

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

Hagit provides legal advice 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 assists 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 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:

Israel Bar Association, 2004

Insights & News - Hagit Ben Moshe:

December 4, 2025

Post-War Rehabilitation of the Border Region Faces Bureaucratic Obstacles

Adv. Hagit Ben Moshe, Partner and Head of the Settlement Sector at our firm, authored an op-ed on the Israel Land Authority’s decision, following the outbreak of the Iron Swords War, to allow communities in the border region to increase ground-based solar quotas, and on the current obstacles authorities are imposing that may undermine the potential of renewable energy as a driver of growth in the area.

Adv. Hagit Ben Moshe Lectures at Discount Bank on Renewable Energy Projects in Rural Communities

Adv. Hagit Ben Moshe was invited to speak at Discount Bank before senior business managers and analysts on renewable energy projects in rural communities, with a particular focus on project finance considerations and the full range of associated legal and commercial aspects.

TheMarker Interview on Development of Logistics Sector

Adv. Hagit Ben Moshe, partner and head of our Kibbutz Sector Department, was interviewed by TheMarker as part of an article examining the rapid growth of the logistics sector in Israel and globally. The article explored the impact of the trade war and the imposition of heavy tariffs on imports to the United States, as well as the increasing volume of transactions in the sector, including the development of logistics centers (marlogim) for self-use or leasing, and the initiation of logistics complexes by income-generating real estate companies.