If you are abroad and need to have your signature on a document
witnessed for use in Israel or you have an official document such
as a birth or death certificate which needs to be validated for use
in Israel, there are two options:
- to have the document or your
signature validated by the local Israeli consulate
- to use a local notary and then to
have the document legalised by Apostille certification.
The Apostille is a form of international document verification
recognised by those countries who are signatories to the relevant
Hague Convention dating from 1961. Such countries include the UK,
Israel, Australia and the USA.
Legalisation by Apostille involves the appropriate authority in
your country attaching a certificate to a public document which
contains the following information:
