Efrat Adv. Aviram Vas World Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2026

Efrat Adv. Aviram Vas

I have practiced law for many years in areas that include constitutional and administrative law, land property, public land policy, the Israel Land Authority (ILA), planning and zoning, building permits, transaction contracts, arbitration in land and planning matters, and management of housing and agricultural cooperatives. My work involves litigating and submitting petitions when necessary to the Administrative Courts or the Supreme Court of Justice, overseeing transactions and tax settlements, and serving as an arbitrator for the Israel Bar Association, the Registrar of Cooperative Societies, and other entities. I hold a Master’s degree in Public Law from Tel Aviv University Law School. Years later, I was invited by the same school to serve as a visiting lecturer for a one-term course on cooperative law in Israel since 2015, and later assumed the same role at Sapir College Law School. In 2022, I joined a program at the Technion, led by Prof. Rachelle Alterman, to begin research for a PhD under her supervision. During this period, following the outbreak of war on October 7, 2023, Prof. Alterman initiated a new research at the S. Neeman Institute for National Policy Research at the Technion, where I was appointed a senior research assistant along with Dr. Micky Drori. This research examines public land policy in rural villages in Israel; both research projects are ongoing. On 2017 I initiated and have served since as a regular member of the steering committee for the annual "Cooperatives in Israel" conference, held in memory of Prof. S. Ottolenghi. at TA Law School. Prof. Ottolenghi was my teacher and a leading researcher in Israeli cooperative law and practice. During the past two years have been leading a petition with four colleagues from other law firms, regarding the ILA’s decision to change the determinant date for land valuation - from the submission date of a request for ILA consent for a public land transaction, to the date of signature by the ILA land appraiser. The Supreme Court supported the petition, resulting in the ILA reversing this policy due to the court's decision on May 12, 2025. We are now pursuing civil action to recover overcharged land prices collected by the ILA over the past four years due to this policy. Over the past year and a half, I also serve as co-chair of the Cooperative Law Committee, part of the Forum of the ILA and Agricultural Settlement in Israel at the Israel Bar Association. As part of this role, I participate in Knesset sessions on behalf of the Bar and initiated organizing teams of many lawyers, focused on issues such as planning, land appraising, and inheritance law, in regard to cooperatives in Israel.