Independent environmental planning advisory for international firms navigating Israel's Metro Law, NTA procurement culture, and the INFRA-1 regulatory framework.
Israel's Metro Law — passed 2021, significantly amended August 2024 — restructures environmental approvals, stop orders, groundwater access, and antiquities coordination for INFRA-1 contractors. Silence from a regulator is approval. Municipal bylaws don't apply. The Antiquities Authority has 21 days before losing its authority to the Regulatory Council.
The Coastal Aquifer runs under Tel Aviv. The noise regime permits what European frameworks prohibit. Soil contamination surveys follow Minister-set rules, not standard law. Each of these is a known unknown for international teams — until it becomes a schedule problem.
NTA procurement culture is specific, hard-won knowledge. What the Red Line's construction-phase failures actually looked like. How community consultation works under Israeli planning law. And what the geopolitical reality means for risk frameworks built on more stable assumptions.
In August 2024, Israel passed the Metro Law — 55 pages that fundamentally restructure how environmental approvals, regulatory coordination, noise permits, groundwater access, antiquities surveys, and administrative stop orders work for this project specifically.
Currently providing environmental planning and supervision on the Tel Aviv LRT Purple Line. Previously advised on the Metro's considerate construction strategy — a framework covering environmental compliance, safety protocols, and public acceptance across the full metropolitan programme.
That combination of active project involvement and framework-level advisory means the knowledge here is current and grounded in how NTA actually operates — not how the documents say it operates.
A short call is the most efficient way to establish whether there's a fit. No pitch — just a direct conversation about what your team is working through.