Until 2014, Israel generally exempted from its income tax any trust that had been created by one or more of foreign persons, even though one or more beneficiaries were Israeli residents. Further, Israel did not generally seek to tax an Israeli resident beneficiary on receipt of a distribution from such a trust, and in certain cases did not require the beneficiary to even report such distributions to the Israel Tax Authority (ITA)

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