Until recently, there has been no standard rental contract in Israel, and the contract has been a function of negotiation between the landlord and the tenant (or non-negotiation in many cases!). As many of you may have experienced, landlords with apartments in desirable locations have pretty much been able to ‘name their terms’ and if the tenant wasn’t happy with these terms, or with the landlords behavior after already having moved in, it was simply a case of “talk to the ha