Following the National Planning and Building Council’s adoption of the recommendation to incorporate an agrivoltaic chapter into National Outline Plan No. 1 (TAMA 1), including an expedited building permit track for projects of up to 80 dunams, Adv. Hagit Ben Moshe, a partner and head of the firm's Kibbutz Sector and Energy Deparment, participated in a professional seminar on the topic. The seminar was organized by the Kibbutz Movement, Tzemach Organization, the Religious Kibbutz Movement, Emek Yizreel Economic Enterprises, Shaan Group, and Miluot. During the seminar, Hagit reviewed the key advantages and limitations of the building permit track, its practical feasibility, and the regulatory and practical challenges involved in advancing agrivoltaic projects under this framework.
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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
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Professional Seminar for the Kibbutz Sector | Agrivoltaic Projects Under the Building Permit Track
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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.