Personal injury lawyer in Israel

What “near me” can honestly mean

This site does not claim a Google ranking, a “best lawyer” badge, or that the office is the closest door to every reader. The honest answer to “personal injury lawyer near me” in Israel is geographic and practical. The firm’s seat is 7 Abba Hillel Silver Road, Ramat Gan 5252204. Ariel Freiberg & Co. represents clients from the north, Haifa, Jerusalem, the south, and the Tel Aviv area. A meeting can be at the office or arranged remotely. The city of the crash, the hospital, or the workplace does not have to be Ramat Gan.

Phone 03-7412358. WhatsApp 972-53-770-9402. Email office@freiberg-law.co.il.

Israeli injury files are not one statute. Naming the track first changes the defendant, the documents, the deadline, and whether fault has to be proved at all. The four tracks below are what this office actually spends its time on. Other statutes exist, and they are not folded into a shorter label.

Road accidents

If the bodily injury is a road accident as Israeli law defines it, compensation is generally under the Road Accident Victims Compensation Law of 1975, against the insurer of the vehicle — not a general negligence trial, and not a medical-malpractice claim. Fault is not the question. Use of a motor vehicle for transport is. A pedestrian, a passenger, and a driver can all be inside the statute; an injury that merely happened to occur on a street is not automatically inside it. Some events that do not look like a classic crash still are. The file starts by fixing that boundary.

Where the vehicle is uninsured, or the driver cannot be identified, the Karnit fund can be the defendant instead of a commercial insurer. That is a statutory address, not a second theory of fault. The medical record, wage evidence, and the insurer’s position come after the statute is identified. A malpractice framing of the crash itself is the wrong claim. If later hospital treatment of those injuries is alleged to have caused additional damage by falling below a reasonable standard, that is a separate claim against the institution, discussed below. The same loss is not paid twice: benefits and a civil award are coordinated. More on the statute: road accidents.

Work injuries

National Insurance recognizes a work accident when the injury happened in the course of work and because of it, including defined situations on the way to or from work. Not every commute qualifies. Recognition leads to injury benefits and, where the disability remains, to a medical committee. None of that requires proof that the employer was careless.

A civil suit against the employer for that same work accident is generally not the route. A civil suit can still exist against someone who is not the employer: another driver, an occupier of premises, a product, or a hospital if later treatment is alleged to have departed from a reasonable standard. Those are different defendants and different questions. A National Insurance file does not prove that third-party claim, and it does not close it.

National Insurance has its own filing windows, often shorter than a civil lawsuit. Missing a notice can affect benefits even while a court claim is still open. The date is taken from the documents, not from memory. Detail: work accidents.

Medical negligence

Medical malpractice in Israel is a negligence claim under the Civil Wrongs Ordinance, not a no-fault scheme. What must be shown is a duty of care, a departure from what a reasonable practitioner in that field would have done with the knowledge then available, a causal link to the damage, and damage that can be described in evidence. A bad outcome, including a known complication, is not enough. Hindsight is not the standard. Accepted practice is strong evidence; it is not an automatic immunity.

An expert opinion in the relevant specialty is ordinarily required before a medical fact can be proved in court. The firm reads the record before an expert is instructed — including the possibility that there is no negligence claim and a different statute applies. A missing or thin record is not, by itself, a finding of fault; where an institution was obliged to document and did not, a court may in a proper case shift the burden on the facts the record should have settled. Informed consent is a separate question from how the procedure was performed: a signed form is evidence of a process, not a substitute for material information about risks and alternatives, and causation still has to be shown.

The ordinary limitation period is seven years, with specific rules when the damage is discovered later and when the injured person is a minor. A letter to the hospital does not, by itself, stop the clock. The Hebrew hub sets this structure out in full: רשלנות רפואית. The English note is medical malpractice. Birth injury is a different medical file: birth injury.

Nursing-care claims

A private nursing-care policy pays when the insured meets the policy’s definition of a nursing condition, usually by activities of daily living or by cognitive decline. That is a contract claim against the insurer. It does not ask whether a doctor was negligent. It is also not the same as the National Insurance nursing benefit, which has its own statutory tests and its own committee.

The file is built from the denial or the partial approval: which clause was relied on, which assessment was done, and which function was not examined. A medical committee percentage from another track is not an answer to the policy wording. Nursing-care claims.

How a file actually starts

• Which statute applies, and against whom. That question comes before any talk of damages.
• The papers that decide it: the medical record, the insurer’s letters, or the National Insurance file — not a summary from memory.
• Whether fault has to be proved. On a road-accident claim and on a work-injury benefit, it generally does not. On medical negligence and on many third-party claims, it does, and then an expert is instructed only after the record has been read. See also the Hebrew note on expert opinions.
• Fees in writing. No promised shekel figure on the first call, and no figure borrowed from another case.

The practice is a boutique personal-injury office. Lawyers at the firm run the files. Nothing on this page is a case result, a ranking, or a guarantee. If compensation is awarded, it depends on the track, the injury, and the evidence in that file. Sums already paid for the same loss are brought into the calculation so the loss is not collected twice.

Other statutes this office handles, each with its own conditions: dog bites, hostile-act victims, and security-forces injuries. How the office works: why us, how to choose a lawyer, fees.