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A Letter from the Unit for Location and Restitution of Unclaimed Property

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Are You The Heir To Unclaimed Israeli Property?

If you have received a letter from the Unit for Location and Restitution of Unclaimed Property, this blog will help you understand your legal situation.

From time to time, the Unit for Location and Restitution of Unclaimed Property, on behalf of the Administrator General of the Ministry of Justice in Israel, contacts potential heirs to property, whose owners (or their descendants) are either unknown or cannot be located, inviting them to examine if they are the rightful recipients of the property.

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Spousal inheritance according to the Inheritance Ordinance (when the deceased passed away before 1965)

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Israeli law requires the Administrator General to act diligently to find the beneficiaries. It should be noted that a report by the State Comptroller published for public review in 2018 revealed, among other deficiencies, that the unit responsible for locating abandoned properties in Israel and their rightful owners does not handle the current information regarding tens of thousands of properties that can be assumed to be abandoned. These properties are not examined, and no efforts are made to locate and manage them. The unit’s procedures do not set time limitations for the actions of the locating department.

Most often, contact with potential beneficiaries is made through an official letter sent by the Unit for Location and Restitution of Unclaimed Property, on behalf of the Administrator General of the Ministry of Justice in Israel.

For the purpose of assessing eligibility, the Unit for Location and Restitution of Unclaimed Property requests details and documents linking the potential heir to the holder of the registered rights. For example, information and/or documents related to the relevant properties in Israel, addresses and business details of the holder of the registered rights during the relevant years, examples of the signature of the holder of the registered rights, and a family tree.

It is evident that a potential beneficiary of the rights, who becomes aware for the first time of the rights and/or the possibility of receiving the rights, will face great difficulty in finding the required details and documents to prove the entitlement to the property. Many potential beneficiaries already give up at this stage because they have no idea how to obtain the necessary information and documents and, due to their age and the passage of time, find it difficult to trace the holders of the rights.

If that’s not enough, the Unit for Location and Restitution of Unclaimed Property states in the letter that the receipt of the letter itself does not constitute recognition of the entitlement of the recipient or any other person to rights in the property managed by the Administrator General. Eligibility is determined by an Eligibility Examination Committee and the reception of the letter is just the first step in a long and arduous process. Furthermore, the considerations that the Eligibility Examination Committee weighs when approving or rejecting restitution requests are not transparent to the public, and its internal procedures do not establish rules for the committee’s decision-making process.

As a result, the path to proving entitlement is fraught with difficulties and bureaucracy, all aimed at protecting the true beneficiaries. However, do not think that the purpose of this article is to discourage you from claiming your property. Quite the opposite! As stated on our website, our office works in full cooperation with potential beneficiaries to obtain the necessary details and documents, according to unique working methods developed in our office, all in order to achieve a complete registration of the rightful beneficiaries.

The information provided in this article is based on details given in our work and on legal materials available for public review on the internet. The information in this article is not intended to serve as a substitute for legal advice.

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Example of a letter from the Unit for Location and Restitution of Unclaimed Property

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Example of A Letter from the Unit for Location and Restitution of Unclaimed Property
letter from the Unit for Location and Restitution of Unclaimed Property
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Disclaimer 

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All of the above does not constitute legal advice or a substitute for legal advice, and all information contained on the site serves as general information only. The aforesaid does not replace information provided by an attorney, and the reader should contact and consult with an attorney who specializes in the field before taking any legal action. Anyone who relies on the above in any way does so at his own risk, and the responsibility for any direct or indirect result due to reliance on the aforesaid will apply to the user only.

To Find Out More, Contact us:

office@asinheritancelaw.com

+ 178 62337694 (New York)

+972 48331212 (Israel)

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