& co. advocates notaries and patent attorneys type partnership israel industry law founded jerusalem palestine 1921 headquarters tel aviv israel key people senior partners tal band alex hertman yehoshua horesh ruth oren asgad stern . products legal advice revenue unknown number of employees 210 website www.s horowitz.com s. horowitz & co. is one of israel s largest law firms with over 140 fee earners many of whom are multilingual and have qualified and practised as lawyers in the us england and south africa . 1 its offices are in tel aviv . the firm specializes in high end corporate and commercial legal practices . it was ranked as israel s overall leading law firm by the practical law company which lawyer 2005 guidebook . 2 s. horowitz & co. is the israeli member of lex mundi one of the world s largest network of independent law firms based in 165 countries states and provinces . 3 s. horowitz offices in tel aviv contents 1 history 2 notable attorneys 3 references 4 external links history edit founded in 1921 s. horowitz & co. is the oldest and longest established law firm in israel . cambridge educated barrister shalom horowitz 1880 1956 arrived in jerusalem in 1922 and immediately joined the law firm of british barrister harry saker which had been established a year earlier . when saker returned to england in 1929 he left the firm to his erudite colleague by then one of the most active and admired lawyers practicing in the country before the establishment of the state . in 1933 abraham levin joined as a partner and the firm became s. horowitz & co. many of s. horowitz & co. s first clients were british companies engaged in business activities in the british mandate . however the firm whose office was located next to the old courthouse in the russian compound quickly became involved in the process of nation building . shalom horowitz advised on the establishment of israel s most prominent institutions including the hebrew university of jerusalem the hadassah medical center the weizmann institute of science the israel electric corporation the israel lands authority and the jewish agency . he was soon engaged in the country s first natural resources energy and infrastructure projects including the dead sea quarries and the naharaim power station in the northern part of israel . in what would be the first of many of the firm s negotiations with the israel lands authority horowitz obtained the authorization to lease the former swamp lands of the hula valley for agricultural use . in the 1940s the firm opened its first tel aviv office . around this time shalom horowitz retired and the management of the office was taken over by abraham levin . in 1965 a lawyer by the name of amnon goldenberg joined the firm . like shalom horowitz he too had been educated in england . in 1986 the firm moved to its own building s. horowitz house where it remains to this day . notable attorneys edit in addition to numerous professors and partners both at s. horowitz and other firms some of the more notable former s. horowitz attorneys include 4 5 chief justice asher grunis justice alfred vitkon justice tzvi tal prof. david gilo ilana dayan menachem tulchinsky dr. yoram turbowicz references edit http www.legal500.com firms 12300 s horowitz co offices 13930 tel aviv profile retrieved on december 6 2012 oledimmah laurena 2005 11 16 . which lawyer israel . practical law company . retrieved 2007 01 16 . company profile lex mundi website retrieved on january 16 2007 . http www.themarker.com law 1.653805 http www.globes.co.il news article.aspx did 1000430320 external links edit s. horowitz & co. profile bdi code 2005 pdf file bdi report in globes june 26 2006 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title s. horowitz % 26 co. & oldid 694008689 categories law firms established in 1921law firms of israel navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 december 2015 at 14 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view