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About Hetz Hazafon

Leading Israel's engineering mapping and surveying field since 2005

What We Do

Hetz Hazafon specializes in mapping and engineering surveying, providing professional services throughout the State of Israel, while maintaining an uncompromising level of quality, personal service, and professionalism in every project. The company provides holistic services including: land surveying, aerial photography and orthophoto, aerial, marine, and LiDAR mapping, cadastre, land designation, appraisal, and land registration.

Our equipment & fleet
The Hetz Hazafon office building in Tirat Carmel

Company Profile

Headquartered in Tirat Carmel, the company was founded in 2005 and is a veteran, leading firm with a significant reputation in photogrammetric mapping, land surveying, cadastre, and expropriations.

The company is an approved supplier, included in the quality supplier databases authorized to operate in national-level surveying, with some of the highest quality scores.

The company owns sophisticated, innovative, and unique equipment of the highest professional grade.

The company delivers a holistic service combining acquired knowledge with innovative technologies in some of the country's largest and most complex infrastructure projects.

The company is consistently ranked with the highest quality scores and is counted among Israel's top supplier databases in national surveying fields.

The company is managed by first-rate professionals forming a stable, high-quality management backbone. Department and sub-department heads are among the most experienced in Israel.

The company employs about 70 people, including 12 certified engineers and surveyors, a licensed auditing surveyor, urban planners, an appraiser, a land registrar, aerial photographers, and photogrammetry and aerial/marine LiDAR experts.

The company has a broad, loyal client base including government ministries, public organizations, local authorities, planning and building committees, water corporations, planning offices, project management companies, and architecture firms.

The company in numbers

2005

Founded; head office in Tirat Carmel

~70

employees, including 12 certified engineers & surveyors

400+

registration plans approved with the Survey of Israel each year

100,000+

housing units in town plans for the Israel Land Authority

30+

years of industry experience among the company’s management

Management

Management Team

Our management team comprises the finest professionals in the mapping and surveying industry

Ziv Salomon

Owner, CEO

  • Degree in business administration and marketing
  • Over 35 years of management experience in aerial photography, mapping, surveying, and complex geographic-engineering deliverables

Eldav Natovich

Owner, VP & Production Manager

  • Certified engineer and surveyor with over 20 years of experience managing multidisciplinary projects at all levels, including national scale

Orly Steinberg

CFO

  • Over 35 years of experience in financial management, accounting office management, and corporate advisory
  • Certified public accountant

Arie Frank

Head of Cadastre Department

  • Civil engineer and certified surveyor with about 20 years of experience
  • Serves as the company's auditing surveyor on behalf of the Survey of Israel
  • Has led the cadastre department since its founding

Rafat Shaheen

Head of Surveying Department

  • Civil engineer and certified surveyor with about 20 years of experience
  • With the company for over 15 years — started as deputy head of surveying and now leads the department

Ran Kor

Head of Aerial Department

  • Over 30 years of experience producing and managing large-scale aerial photography, photogrammetric mapping, GIS, LiDAR, and geographic deliverable projects

Elad Aviram

Head of Real Estate Department

  • Certified appraiser with about 28 years of experience in information systems, tender coordination, real estate advisory, and land registration
  • With the company for about 13 years

Marina Parabek

Head of Expropriations

  • Civil engineer and urban planner with over 15 years of experience
  • With the company for about 15 years

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