Registration ensures that domestic partners will receive all municipal services easily and without additional bureaucracy – even if they are not married – as long as they are living together.
Changes to the Municipal Database Regulations benefited from registering couples who chose to live together and share a joint household, giving them the same municipal services and rights as married couples.
Registration on the municipal database provides a number of services and perks, such as exemptions at community centers, parking permits for both partners, dual membership in country clubs, and exemptions on entire properties in cases where one of the spouses is entitled to the exemption. – Not only on 50% of the assets as it is now.
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai drinking wine at a bar in Tel Aviv(Credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/MAARIV)
Registration on the database is subject to their application process. Open to couples defined as “cohabiting partners” through the “National Insurance Institute” (Bituach Leumi), the application is simple, nothing more than applicants’ ID cards and a written declaration to the joint family management needed. The written declaration of cohabitation must be signed by an attorney or the National Insurance Institute.
After registration in the database, Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality will issue a certificate which will be sent to the applicant’s email address. The application and subsequent certificates are free of charge.