About

The law firm of Peleg, Cohen, Deutch specializes in real estate taxation, with a particular emphasis on municipal taxation and its implications for asset-rich corporations from the business and institutional sectors, as well as for real estate developers.

Founded in 2000 by Adv. Ronit Peleg, Adv. (CPA) Itay Cohen, and Adv. Uri Deutch, the firm benefited from its very inception from the stellar reputation established by Attorneys Peleg, Cohen, and Deutch many years prior.

Over the years, the firm has garnered an outstanding reputation and extensive experience in reducing real estate tax liabilities—including municipal property tax (Arnona), building permit fees, development levies and construction fees, water charges and sewage fees, Israel Land Authority charges, betterment levies, and class action lawsuits in the field of municipal taxation.

The firm’s clientele includes some of the largest business and institutional entities in the Israeli economy, such as: the Accountant General – Government Housing, the Ministry of Defense, the Israel Land Authority, Israel Ports Company, Israel Railways, Oil Refineries (Bazan), Strauss Group, Mivne, Gav-Yam, Israel Discount Bank, Bank Leumi, Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot, Unilever, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Check Point, Amdocs, IBM, Teva, Elbit Systems, Canada-Israel, Y.H. Dimri, Acro Group, Kardan, Ashdar, WIZO, the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization, Na'amat, and many others.

The firm's deep expertise in the billing methods practiced by each local authority has frequently led to precedent-setting legal achievements. Over the years, these successes have resulted in substantial reductions in client liabilities and the recovery of unlawfully collected funds, totaling tens of billions of shekels.