Notary Services and Lasting Power of Attorney in Jerusalem

Adv. Reuven Biton is an Israeli lawyer and notary at Biton | Bar-Asher, Hillel Street 5, Jerusalem. The office serves English speakers who need notarial acts for use abroad or wish to sign an Israeli Lasting Power of Attorney.

 

Notarial services

Section 7 of the Notaries Law, 5736-1976, sets out the acts a notary may perform. The office provides:

 

• Signature authentication on documents for use abroad, such as powers of attorney, consents and declarations. The signer must appear in person, be identified and sign in front of the notary (section 11 of the Law).

• Confirmation of authority of a person signing on behalf of a company or another person.

• Certified true copies of documents.

• Life certificates confirming that a person is alive, for example for a foreign pension authority.

• Affidavits and declarations made before a notary.

 

The office does not provide notarial translation certificates.

 

Apostille

Many countries require an apostille, a certificate under the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961, on an Israeli notarial document. In Israel it is issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, by registrars of the Magistrates' Courts, or by officials appointed for this purpose. It applies only to countries that are party to the Convention; other countries may require a different form of legalization.

 

Israeli Lasting Power of Attorney

A Lasting Power of Attorney allows an adult with capacity to appoint one or more people to act on their behalf in personal matters, including health, in property matters, or in both, if they later lose the ability to make those decisions. It must be signed before a lawyer who completed the training required by law, and it comes into effect only after it has been deposited with the Administrator General. Adv. Biton completed this training. The lawyer explains the document to the appointer privately, without the appointed attorney present.

 

What to bring

• A valid passport or Israeli ID card.

• The document itself, unsigned. Please do not sign it before the meeting.

• For a certified copy: the original document.

• Instructions you received from the foreign authority.

 

Contact

• Phone: 072-2764060

• WhatsApp: 054-6488856

• Email: r@bb-law.co.il

• Address: Hillel Street 5, Jerusalem. Appointments by prior arrangement.

 

The above is general information only. It does not constitute legal advice or a substitute for it, and should not be relied upon without examining the specific facts of the case.