Professional services · Israel · Wartime compensation

Photograph the damage. Don't move it. Wait for the appraiser.

Israel's Property Tax Compensation Fund (Mas Rechush, hotline *4954) covers war damage to physical property, but the procedure is unforgiving. Photograph the damage immediately. File within 14 days to three months. Leave the broken glass exactly where the missile put it, because moving anything before the Israel Tax Authority appraiser arrives can cut the claim. By late-summer 2025, 39,000-plus claims totalling NIS 4.5 billion (Israeli new shekels, ≈€1.1 billion) had landed in the fund. About 2,600 came from Haifa Bay and Acre.

01The pain

Two thousand six hundred. That is roughly how many compensation-fund claims came out of Haifa Bay and Acre after the June 2025 Iran war, the Anadolu news agency reported in late summer.1 Each one came with the same instruction from the Israel Tax Authority (ITA): photograph the damage, file within 14 days to three months, and do not move so much as a glass shard until the appraiser turns up. A Krayot shopkeeper who boards up a broken storefront before the appraiser arrives can have the claim cut on the grounds that the damage cannot be re-verified.2

The Property Tax Compensation Fund (Mas Rechush, hotline *4954) covers physical damage only.2 Operational costs, perishable inventory and lost rent move through a separate June 2025 NIS 10 billion (≈€2.5 billion) track that uses revenue-drop math: 25% June-on-June, or 12.5% May–June for small VAT (Value-Added Tax) filers. Small-business grants under that track are capped between NIS 1,750 (≈€440) and NIS 14,025 (≈€3,500).3 Businesses outside the priority confrontation-line zones along the Lebanese border are classed as general citizens and routinely receive 30–50% of physical damage value.4

Owners report waiting weeks for an appraiser while the shop sits sealed, then arguing line by line over what counts as physical versus operational. A paperwork war that runs in parallel with the missile war.4

Mas Rechush hotline *4954. Late-summer 2025: 39,000+ claims, NIS 4.5B.1
"Everything we pay; the issue isn't taking a loan, the issue is paying back the loan." — Roli Smulevitch, Shwarma Haturki owner, Rehovot · Jerusalem Post, June 2025

Further reading

  • 1 Anadolu Agency — "Israel receives nearly 39,000 compensation claims for damages caused by Iranian missiles" (Late-summer 2025 fund totals; ~2,600 claims out of Haifa Bay and Acre, English): aa.com.tr
  • 2 BuyItInIsrael — "Nearly 10,000 Claims Filed to Israel's Compensation Fund" (Mas Rechush hotline *4954, photograph-first instruction, fast-track up to NIS 30,000, claim-filing windows, English): buyitinisrael.com
  • 3 Jerusalem Post — June 2025 NIS 10 billion indirect-damage track, revenue-drop math (25% June-on-June, 12.5% May–June for small VAT filers), small-business grant caps NIS 1,750 to NIS 14,025 (English): jpost.com
  • 4 Jerusalem Post — "After damages from Iran attacks, Israel's small businesses are stuck in Tax Authority limbo" (confrontation-line classification, 30–50% physical-damage payouts, weeks-long appraiser waits, Roli Smulevitch quote attribution, English): jpost.com
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Three Israeli law firms that publish dedicated client updates on the Property Tax Compensation Fund (Mas Rechush) wartime claim regime on their own websites and offer their tax or insurance practice to handle direct- and indirect-damage claims, appeals before property tax committees, and Tax Authority disputes — the route a Haifa-Bay shopkeeper or Acre business owner actually takes when the appraiser's number drops to voicemail. Each was checked live on the date of writing. The list is intentionally narrow.

Israeli law firm with offices in Tel Aviv and Haifa. Publishes a dedicated guide on Operation Shaagat HaAri / Mas Rechush direct- and indirect-damage compensation; tax practice represents businesses on claim filings, appraiser-valuation disputes, and appeals to property tax committees and district courts.
dt-law.co.il
Israeli law firm. Dedicated practitioner guide on filing Property Tax (Mas Rechush) war-damage claims and on broader content-insurance extensions; firm states it is available to advise individuals, businesses and companies through fast-track and standard claim procedures.
shibolet.com
Israeli law firm. Tax practice publishes a dedicated client update on government compensation under Operation Am KeLavi covering Property Tax and Compensation Fund Law 1961 claims for residential, business equipment, inventory and rented-property losses.
herzoglaw.co.il

Listed providers publicly market to the Israel Property Tax Compensation Fund / Mas Rechush / wartime-direct-damage / business-interruption claim niche on their own client-update or guide pages. Inclusion is not endorsement. Adjacent vendors and firms were considered and excluded where their public homepage did not explicitly name the niche at the date of writing — Goldfarb Gross Seligman (goldfarb.com) returned HTTP 403 on the dedicated Operation Am KeLavi direct- and indirect-damage compensation page so the listing could not be re-verified at the date of writing and was dropped pending re-check; HOLD Legal (hold.co.il) returned a TLS-certificate hostname error and could not be verified at the date of writing, so dropped pending re-check; Harris Consulting & Tax (hcat.co) published a "Roaring Lion — Property Damage Relief" article but the firm's homepage and the article surface only international-business / e-commerce / trust-structure tax planning, with no explicit Mas Rechush claim-filing or property-damage advisory service line, so it was dropped; Poenta (poenta.co.il) is a consumer news outlet whose Mas Rechush article is editorial guidance rather than a representation service, so it was dropped; Eitan Simon Insurance Agency (simon-ins.co.il) returned HTTP 200 with English-language coverage of Wartime Property Tax Law eligibility but the agency markets construction- and infrastructure-insurance brokerage rather than direct claim-prep services to small business owners, so it was dropped pending re-check. The Israel Tax Authority (Compensation Fund / Mas Rechush) is referenced in section 01 as the administering regulator rather than listed as a third-party solution provider; Anadolu Agency, Jerusalem Post and BuyItInIsrael are referenced in section 01 as trade-press citations; ESEK (the small-business-advisory association quoted in the Jerusalem Post coverage) was reviewed and excluded because its public marketing focuses on capital-readiness coaching and does not surface a dedicated Mas Rechush claim-prep offering. Adjacent insurance-broker / public-adjuster categories were searched; no Israeli public-adjuster firm surfaced with a public homepage that explicitly self-marketed business-interruption Mas Rechush claim preparation at the date of writing — which is precisely the wedge the third TL;DR bullet describes.

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