Tenancy ending and you're staying with the same tenant? You don't need a new contract from scratch, a short extension annex is enough, and it keeps the securities you already hold. Download it here, along with a ready-to-send option-exercise notice.
Based on a lawyer-drafted annex · for unprotected residential tenancy
Before you download
The common mistake at the end of a tenancy is opening a fresh contract. Usually that's unnecessary, and sometimes it's harmful.
A short document, usually one page, attached to the existing lease that extends its term. It sets the new period and the updated rent, and states that every other term of the original contract stays in force.
A contract from scratch means redrafting every clause, re-signing every party, and risking that a clause which protected you last time quietly disappears. The annex keeps the document that already worked and changes only what needs changing.
This is the critical part. A promissory note, guarantor signatures and guarantee letter given for the original contract do not carry over by themselves. The annex has to say explicitly that they remain in force for the extended period. In our draft that's clause 6.
Rental and Loan Law, 5731-1971 (incl. the Fair Rent amendment)
The downloads
Which one applies comes down to a single question: does the existing contract contain an extension option?
When the contract has no option, or both sides are agreeing new terms
The distinction that matters
Two completely different routes with different deadlines. Misreading which one you're on is the fastest way to lose the right to extend.
The original contract already gives the tenant the right to extend. No fresh agreement from the landlord is needed, only written notice within the window the contract sets, typically 60 to 90 days before the term ends. Give notice in time and the extension holds, even if the landlord would rather it didn't.
Use the option-exercise notice
If no option was agreed, or the notice window has passed, extending depends on both sides agreeing. You negotiate the period and the rent, then record what was agreed in a signed annex.
Use the extension annex
Miss the notice deadline and the option simply lapses, and the landlord is not obliged to extend on the old terms. Put the date in your calendar the day you sign the contract, not a month before it ends.
Quick guide
The whole thing takes under an hour, provided you started it in time.
Look for an option clause: is there a right to extend, for how long, and by when must notice be given. Check how the contract sets rent for the extended period too, since sometimes there's an indexation formula or a cap.
Decide how long you're extending for and what the rent will be. Settle it in writing, by email or message, before filling in the annex, so the document records an existing agreement instead of starting a new argument.
Download the annex, fill in the details, and make sure the continuing-securities clause stays in. Everyone who signed the original contract, guarantors included, needs to sign the annex too.
Replace the cheques or standing order for the new period and amount. If the rent went up, check the promissory note and guarantee still match, since a security sized for a lower rent covers you for less.
For a contract built here with the Protection package, extending for the same tenant costs nothing. The details are already in the system, the securities and guarantors carry on under the deed of guarantee already signed, and every party signs digitally from their phone. Open the contract, hit renew, and a few short steps later the annex is ready to send
Free renewals for the same tenant are part of the ₪79 Protection package · extending an outside contract costs ₪39
Upload the finished file and send it for digital signature to every party, no printing and no meeting up
Upload the annex for signing₪39 one-time · upload and sign only, no document building
Yes. Renewal, extension and continuation are three names for the same action, with no legal difference between them. In every case it is the same document: a short annex attached to the existing contract that extends its term, updates the rent and leaves the remaining terms in force.
A short document attached to the existing lease that extends its term without drafting a new contract. It sets the new period and the updated rent, and states explicitly that every other term of the original contract, including the securities, remains in force. The annex counts as part of the contract for all purposes, and where the two conflict, the annex prevails.
Usually not. If the terms are unchanged and only the period and rent move, a signed extension annex is enough and preferable, since it preserves the contract that already worked and the securities given for it. A fresh contract makes sense when something material changes: the number of tenants, the purpose of the tenancy, or the structure of the securities.
The option has lapsed, and the landlord isn't obliged to extend on its terms. That isn't the end of it, you can still extend by mutual agreement using an extension annex, but the terms reopen for negotiation, rent included. Which is why the notice date belongs in your calendar on the day you sign.
Only if the annex says so explicitly. Don't assume it's implied. A clause stating that the securities given for the original contract continue to secure the extended period's obligations is one of the most important in the document. If the rent went up, consider updating the promissory note amount too.
Israel has no statutory cap on rent increases for unprotected tenancy, the figure is agreed between the parties. That said, if the original contract has an option clause fixing the rent for the extended period, or an indexation formula, that clause binds. A unilateral increase mid-tenancy isn't possible.
Yes. An annex is a document like any other, and a secure digital signature on it is valid under Israel's Electronic Signature Law, 5761-2001. If you have the annex as a PDF you can upload it and send it out for digital signature to every party, guarantors included, with no printing and no meeting.
Extending a contract that exists on paper costs ₪39 one-time. The wizard walks you through the property details, the parties and the new period in a few short steps, the system builds the extension annex, and every party signs from their phone with SMS verification. If the original contract was built on LeaseLink with the Protection package, extending for the same tenant is free
Yes. You do not need to upload the original. You fill in the property, the parties and the new period in the wizard, and the system builds an extension annex that references the existing contract and states that the securities given for it continue to apply. The annex is signed digitally by the landlord and the tenants, and the signed document is stored for you. If a guarantee was given for the original contract, check your deed of guarantee for whether it also covers an extension period
Go deeper
What to check in the existing contract, how to handle the rent negotiation, and what happens when a tenant stays for years with no updated paperwork.
Why almost every tenancy in Israel is unprotected, and which clause preserves that status through an extension.
When remote signing is valid, and how to sign an annex without printing it.
A digital extension takes a few minutes, builds the annex from your details, and gets every party signed without printing
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