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Israel Bar Exam study plan

Israel Bar Exam · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 8 hours per week

Week 1

Civil Procedure and Evidence & Substantive Civil Law (Contracts, Torts, Property, Obligations)

  • Map the Civil Procedure and Evidence syllabus into a one-page checklist of every sub-topic, marking each as known, shaky, or unknown

  • Draft a personal outline of the rules of civil procedure from memory, then correct it against a primary-source statute and textbook

  • Write out the elements of the core intentional torts and negligence from memory and self-grade against a treatise

  • Solve 15 evidence questions (relevance, hearsay, burdens of proof) under timed conditions and log every error with the rule it tested

Your checkpoint

A dated error log of at least 20 answered questions across domains 1 and 2, each entry naming the tested rule and the reason for the mistake

Week 2

Civil Procedure and Evidence & Substantive Civil Law (Contracts, Torts, Property, Obligations)

  • Rehearse the civil-pleadings and motions sequence by drafting a skeleton complaint and a skeleton statement of defense

  • Build a one-page flowchart of the trial process from filing to judgment and appeal

  • Re-derive the rules on contract formation, remedies, and defenses in a self-written summary

  • Solve 20 mixed tort and contract questions under time and re-do every previously missed item

Your checkpoint

A completed one-page trial-process flowchart plus a re-attempt score on the week-1 error log of at least 80% correct

Week 3

Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure

  • Outline the general part of criminal law (actus reus, mens rea, defenses) from memory and correct it against statute

  • Tabulate the elements of the major offense categories in a comparison table

  • Chart the criminal procedure timeline from investigation through indictment, trial, and appeal

  • Solve 20 criminal law and procedure questions timed, then write a short explanation for each wrong answer

Your checkpoint

A completed elements-comparison table for at least 10 offense categories, each with actus reus, mens rea, and available defenses

Week 4

Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure & Civil Procedure and Evidence

  • Re-test the criminal-law error log and confirm each missed rule is now explainable in one sentence

  • Compare the rules of evidence as applied in criminal versus civil proceedings in a written side-by-side

  • Draft a mock argument on an admissibility question, citing the governing rule

  • Solve a 30-question mixed set spanning domains 1 and 3 under exam time limits

Your checkpoint

A timed 30-question mixed set scored and reviewed, with a written one-sentence rule statement for every missed item

Week 5

Constitutional and Administrative Law & Commercial and Corporate Law

  • Outline constitutional principles (basic-law status, judicial review, proportionality) in a self-written summary

  • Summarize administrative-law grounds for intervention and standards of review in a checklist

  • Map corporate-law topics (formation, governance, fiduciary duties, shareholder rights) into a comparison table

  • Solve 20 questions across constitutional, administrative, and corporate law and log errors

Your checkpoint

A one-page proportionality-analysis template plus a corporate-governance comparison table covering at least 8 issues

Week 6

Family Law and Inheritance & Labor Law

  • Outline family law topics (marriage, divorce, property relations, custody) and inheritance rules in a single structured summary

  • Tabulate labor-law entitlements (hours, leave, termination, collective rights) with the source rule for each

  • Solve 15 family and inheritance questions and 10 labor questions timed

  • Write one-sentence rule statements for every item missed in this week's sets

Your checkpoint

A labor-entitlements table with at least 10 rows, each citing the governing source rule

Week 7

Tax Law & Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility & Jewish Law (Mishpat Ivri) and Foundations of Israeli Law

  • Outline the core tax-law structures (income, corporate, and reporting obligations) in a condensed summary

  • Draft a personal ethics checklist covering conflicts of interest, confidentiality, and duties to the court and client

  • Summarize foundational Jewish-law concepts and their influence on Israeli law in a short written note

  • Solve 15 questions across tax, ethics, and foundations and log errors

Your checkpoint

A one-page ethics decision checklist with at least 8 concrete checkpoints a practitioner can apply to a fact pattern

Week 8

International and Public Law & Civil Procedure and Evidence & Substantive Civil Law (Contracts, Torts, Property, Obligations) & Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure

  • Outline public and international law basics (treaty status, jurisdiction, state responsibility) in a condensed summary

  • Run two full-length mixed practice exams under strict time conditions

  • Review every missed item across all domains and consolidate into a single final error sheet

  • Recite from memory the ten highest-frequency rules across the heaviest domains

Your checkpoint

Two completed timed mixed exams with scores recorded and a consolidated final error sheet of no more than two pages

Milestones

Week 2: Civil Procedure and Evidence outlines complete and a timed mixed set in these domains scored at or above 70%

Week 4: Criminal law elements table complete and a 30-question mixed set across domains 1 and 3 scored at or above 70% with all errors explained

Week 6: Family, inheritance, and labor summaries complete and timed sets in these domains scored at or above 70%

Week 8: Both full-length timed exams completed and overall accuracy across all logged items at or above 75%