Certified and practising
An arbitrator who litigates and argues weekly — procedural rulings grounded in how disputes actually behave, not in theory.
Arbitrator appointments
The decision-maker is the biggest decision in the case.
Advocate Khaled N. Aun, certified arbitrator of the Israel Bar Association, accepts appointments as sole or party-nominated arbitrator in commercial disputes.
An arbitration is only as good as its tribunal. The principal of Aun & Co. is a certified arbitrator of the Israel Bar Association and accepts appointments as sole arbitrator or party-nominated arbitrator in commercial matters — partnership and shareholder disputes, contract claims, construction and regional cross-border cases, in Hebrew, Arabic or English. The firm also advises parties on the selection itself: whom to nominate, whom to challenge, and how to run an appointment process the clause actually permits.
The work spans
- Appointments as sole arbitrator in commercial disputes
- Party-nominated arbitrator appointments in three-member tribunals
- Proceedings conducted in Hebrew, Arabic or English
- Advising parties on arbitrator selection and challenge strategy
- Court-appointment applications where the clause mechanism fails
- Both sides want the dispute decided but cannot agree on a name either trusts.
- Your clause requires a party-nominated arbitrator and the nomination deadline is short.
- The dispute spans Hebrew and Arabic documents and the tribunal must read both unaided.
- The appointing mechanism in your clause has broken down and the process is stuck.
As arbitrator, the method is procedural discipline and a reasoned award: a timetable set early and held, evidence managed against the mandate, and a decision written so that it explains itself — and survives set-aside review. As adviser on selection, the firm profiles candidates the way it profiles judges: past awards, procedural habits, subject-matter depth and the disclosure record that predicts challenge risk.
04 · What you get
Awards written to hold
Reasoned, mandate-bound decisions drafted with set-aside grounds in view, so the award ends the dispute rather than opening a new one.
Three-language tribunal
Evidence in Hebrew, Arabic and English read in the original — for regional disputes, an unmediated tribunal is a structural advantage.
A typical appointment: two businesses in a terminated commercial relationship, with claims running in both directions, jointly nominate a sole arbitrator to deliver a reasoned award on a fixed timetable — months, not years, from first session to decision.
Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.
How is an arbitrator appointed under Israeli law?
By the parties' mechanism first — a named person, a nomination procedure or an appointing institution. Where the mechanism fails or a party defaults, the court appoints under the Arbitration Law 1968 on a party's application.
What should parties look for when choosing an arbitrator?
Subject-matter competence, procedural firmness, availability, language, and a clean independence picture. The tribunal's habits shape the case more than any single argument will — selection deserves the same rigour as strategy.
What does engaging the firm as arbitrator involve?
A conflicts check and disclosure first; then terms of appointment covering fees, timetable and procedure, agreed with both parties. From acceptance, the role is the tribunal's — independent of both sides and answerable to the mandate.