Cohen Segelov & Co. Advocates and Notaries specialize in assisting clients relocating from Australia to Israel and from Israel to Australia. Advocate Lisa Segelov is a specialist in this area and qualified as a lawyer in New South Wales, Australia before she immigrated to Israel in 1988. She has been practicing law in Israel more than 25 years and is highly qualified to counsel Australians and Israelis.
Cohen Segelov & Co. Advocates and Notaries provides legal assistance to individuals and companies in regard to understanding the intricacies of the Israel market including leases, employment contracts, opening bank accounts, obtaining finance, opening a business, commercial and residential real estate and many other issues relevant to an individual who is relocating or immigrating to Israel.
Our firm also has specialist knowledge in assisting individuals and companies to relocating to Australia from Israel including immigration and visa advice, setting up company entities, employment advice, opening bank accounts, buying residential and commercial property, review of commercial leases and general corporate guidance.
Individuals and companies relocating from Australian to Israel and Israel to Australia are advised to spend time investigating the market, obtaining professional advice where appropriate and thoroughly investigating the issues related thereto.
10 interesting facts about the relationship between Israel and Australia:
- Australia and Israel have a healthy commercial relationship. Israel is Australia’s 37th largest merchandise trading partner and 50th largest export market (goods and services). In 2015-16, two-way goods and services trade amounted to $1.3 billion, of which Australian exports were worth $349 million and imports from Israel $952 million. In 2015, Australian investment in Israel totalled $663 million and Israeli investment in Australia was $262 million, mostly centred in the innovation sector. Major merchandise exports to Israel are live animals followed by aircraft, space craft and parts.
- Israel is a natural destination for Australian innovation entrepreneurs, corporates and researchers interested in collaborating with the local innovation eco-system. In 2016, an Australian Landing Pad was opened in Tel Aviv to assist Australian startup companies interested in going global or seeking strategic partners and collaboration. Tel Aviv was the site of the first of 5 international “Landing Pad Centers”. The Landing Pad offers Australian companies and entrepreneurs a platform to build linkages with both Israeli and multi-national business partners. Australia concluded an Air Services Agreement and a Technological Innovation Cooperation Agreement in February 2017 during Prime Minister Netanyahu’s state visit to Australia, the first by a sitting Israeli Prime Minister.
- In 2010, Audio Pixels became the first Israeli company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). By 2016, the number of Israeli listings on ASX had grown to 8. At the start of 2017, it was 13 and the Australia Financial Review predicts “up to 15 additional Israeli technology companies” listing on the ASX during 2017.
- A Working Holiday Agreement was concluded in June 2016 whereby 500 visas are issued to Israeli passport holders between the age of 18-30 to work and travel in Australia for a period of up to one year.
- Negotiations are currently in place for a Double Taxation Agreement.
- Australia’s relations with Israel are underpinned by a vibrant Australia-Jewish community, which numbers about 120,000. There are 9,229 Israel-born people living in Australia, an increase of 18.5 per cent from 2006 (2011 census). People born in Israel mostly live in Victoria (44 per cent) and NSW (36.6 per cent).
- Four Australian Light Horse brigades and a battalion of camel troops took part in the British conquest of Palestine in 1916-1917. In Israel, Anzac Day is commemorated at the Commonwealth War cemetery on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. The Australian Soldier Park in Beersheba is dedicated to the memory of the Australian Light Horse regiment that charged at Beersheba and defeated the Turks in World War I. In addition, Australian soldiers fought in the Middle East in World War II.
- Australian Foreign Minister V. Evatt served as Chairman of the UN General Assembly‘s Ad Hoc Committee on Palestine and helped to push through the UN Partition Plan on November 29, 1947. Australia was the first country to vote in favour of the plan despite heavy pressure from the United Kingdom on its fellow Commonwealth nations to abstain on the resolution.
- Full diplomatic relations were established on 29 January 1949.
Many of the English-speaking clients of Cohen Segelov & Co. Advocates and Notaries have chosen our services as we provide excellent and quality service in the English language.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us for further information.
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