The House for Mediation and Arbitration

"The House for Mediation and Arbitration" is a professional platform for resolving complex disputes, offering an efficient and swift alternative to legal proceedings. The center focuses on conflicts affecting local authorities, entrepreneurs, and residents, providing a high-quality and effective response for dispute resolution. The institution was established and is managed by Attorney and Mediator Meital Winkler-Teshuva, who developed a unique model combining multidisciplinary mediation teams.

The center is recognized and esteemed by courts and public bodies as a reliable entity for dispute resolution. Its mediators and arbitrators possess extensive knowledge and experience, with many having held key positions in central and local government, including judges, municipal leaders, city engineers, decisive appraisers, and attorneys. The center's unique model incorporates mediators from various disciplines, so that in an engineering dispute, a civil engineer will mediate alongside an attorney, and in disputes concerning betterment levies (fees imposed for increased property value due to public works), a real estate appraiser and an attorney will mediate, enabling precise processes and the formulation of creative solutions.

Areas of Practice and Types of Disputes

The institute provides professional responses to a variety of disputes at the core of local authorities' activities, including:

• Municipal Aspects: Disputes between authorities and residents or businesses regarding planning and construction, licensing, property taxes and levies, development and infrastructure, internal organizational disputes, and more. The center assists in handling objections to planning and zoning procedures and resolving disputes over compensation or betterment levies.

• Inter-Authority Relations: The center handles claims between local authorities regarding various services such as education services for external students, boundary disputes, and bordering infrastructure development.

• Real Estate Law: Resolution of disputes arising from conflicting transactions, clarification of disputes concerning ownership, rights, and land use.

• Class Actions and Public Interest Litigation: Resolution of representative disputes by agreement, preventing significant rulings against the authority and broad implications.

• Contracts and Engagements: Resolution of disputes in the fields of development and infrastructure, as well as other business disputes.

The success of "The House for Mediation and Arbitration" lies in its unique combination of professionalism, deep understanding of municipal aspects, and leading an efficient process for resolution in a short time, while maintaining relationships between the parties, mutual respect, and future dialogue.