# Tabu

> The Israel Land Registry. Title lives here, not on the brochure or the sales website.

Canonical: https://shavnu.com/glossary/tabu

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**טאבו**

Tabu is the land registry. A sale is not finished until you are registered against the gush/chelka, or a trustee holds for you until the condominium register opens. Your lawyer pulls the Tabu extract, checks liens, and registers a heara azhara (caution) after you sign so a later buyer or creditor cannot jump the queue. Marketing lot numbers (migrash) are a planning overlay; the Tabu address is the gush and chelka.

## Where this comes up

- [Buying in Sde Dov from Abroad: The Honest Playbook](https://shavnu.com/blog/foreign-buyers-guide.md): Foreigners can buy here, but the tax code, payment schedule, and permit pipeline work differently than in most overseas markets. What the research actually supports.

## Related terms

- [Migrash](https://shavnu.com/glossary/migrash.md): A numbered development lot inside a complex (the plot a developer actually buys).
- [Heara azhara](https://shavnu.com/glossary/heara-azhara.md): A caution on title that protects a buyer who has signed but is not yet registered.
- [Gush / Chelka](https://shavnu.com/glossary/gush-chelka.md): Israel's cadastral block and parcel identifiers: the land-registry address of a plot.
- [Yipui koach](https://shavnu.com/glossary/yipui-koach.md): A power of attorney. Remote buyers sign one at home, then apostille it.


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Source: https://shavnu.com/glossary/tabu on Shavnu, an independent English guide to the
Sde Dov district in Tel Aviv. Figures come from the public record: Israel Tax
Authority transaction reports, Tel Aviv GIS, tender results and the Hebrew press.