Ruth is head of the Environment and Climate Change practice and the Industrial Manufacturing practice at Herzog Fox & Neeman.

Ruth has been a leading environment and climate change law practitioner for over two decades. She has accumulated a wealth of experience advising a wide range of clients in these fields, including leading domestic and multinational corporations across all sectors.

Ruth is internationally recognized as an expert in climate finance and carbon markets, working closely with a multitude of international corporations, tech companies, financial institutions and investors, to develop curated carbon strategies tailored to their unique needs and targets, ensure compliance with international market standards and resolve complex legal issues relating to the development of carbon projects and carbon market transactions.

Ruth is actively engaged in several significant global initiatives, including serving as advisor to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat Legal Affairs Division on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and as a member of VERRA’s Verified Carbon Standard Expert Advisory Group, the world’s leading accreditation body for carbon credit projects.

Additionally, Ruth specializes in sustainability-related regulation (CSRD, SFDR, Green Taxonomy, CBAM), and their intersection with climate risk management and climate-related technological innovation.

Ruth regularly represents business sector clients on complex regulatory matters before all relevant agencies and government ministries, including the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Energy, Innovation Authority, Ministry of Health, Water Authority, Ministry of Interior and parliamentary committees.

Ruth has extensive experience representing both domestic and international corporations and corporate officers in administrative, criminal and civil proceedings related to environmental law. In recent years, she has successfully represented clients in the industrial and energy sectors in a series of precedent-setting environmental litigation cases, involving class actions and administrative petitions.

Ruth is also continuously involved in many of Israel’s most notable M&A transactions, joint ventures, financings and offerings, advising both local and international clients on complex regulatory and transactional environmental and climate-related issues. Ruth also has significant expertise in advising domestic and multinational financial institutions on environment and climate change risk management in the financial sector.

Consecutively named a leading environmental lawyer by domestic and international rankings, Ruth is frequently invited to take part in government policy drafting forums on legislative and regulatory initiatives as a representative of the business sector. Both Ruth and the Environment and Climate Change practice at Herzog were ranked Band 1 by the Chambers and Partners Global 2025 ranking. Ruth is also the first Israeli lawyer in the field of environmental law and climate change to be ranked by WWL, and the practice is the first in Israel to be included in the Legal 500 Green Guide.