Yonatan Kehat

Yonatan Kehat is a partner in the litigation department at our Tel Aviv office.

Yonatan’s practice focuses on complex litigation, in both civil-commercial law and public law (administrative and constitutional).

In the area of civil-commercial litigation, Jonathan acts on complex proceedings, primarily class and derivative actions related to energy and natural gas, antitrust, pharmaceuticals, consumer protection and securities law.

Yonatan has been involved in some of the largest most complicated class actions filed against corporations for cause of excessive pricing, including the largest class action lawsuit ever filed in Israel against natural gas exploration corporations.

In the area of public law, Yonatan has amassed extensive experience representing clients in administrative and constitutional petitions (both before administrative courts and before the High Court of Justice), and in recent years has been involved in representing corporations engaged in natural gas exploration and production in precedent setting cases concerning regulation of the natural gas sector.

Yonatan also advises NGOs, associations and individuals for promoting LGBT rights and fighting discrimination.

Yonatan started his professional career as an intern at the Supreme Court in the chambers of Justice (as her title the time) Ester Hayut and as legal assistant to Justice (as her title at the time) Miriam Naor.

• Representing the partners in the Tamar natural gas reservoir in class actions including the largest class action lawsuit ever filed in Israel, concerning the price of natural gas in the agreement between the partners and the Israel Electric Corporation.
• Acting for Chevron (formerly Noble Energy) in dozens of petitions for regulating activity in the natural gas sector, including petitions against gas exports, petitions against the gas framework, petitions against licenses and permits for operating the Leviathan project (including for causes stemming from environmental protection and planning and building).
• Represented Livnat Poran – Medical Rights Center in a precedent setting case ruling on the boundaries of exclusivity in the legal profession.
• Represented Israel’s LGBT Task Force in an additional hearing by the High Court of Justice on recognizing judicial parenting orders for same-sex couples.
• Represented male couples that turned to surrogacy abroad, claiming damages for discrimination and preventing access to surrogacy in Israel.