There is a version of this story that happens to developers across Israel every year: a planning committee requests an EMF survey, the cheapest available consultant produces it, and the committee rejects it. The project stalls for weeks. The consultant produces a revised survey. The committee accepts it with conditions. By the time the permit clears, the delay has cost more than a first-rate specialist would have charged in the first place.
Liran Raz Steinkritser has spent 25 years ensuring that version of the story doesn't happen to his clients. As the senior radiation and environmental engineering specialist at Razore Engineering, he holds dual Ministry of Environmental Protection service licenses — for both ELF and RF non-ionizing radiation — a PhD candidacy at the University of Haifa, and a record as a qualified expert witness accepted by Israeli courts and the Ministry of Defense. The surveys his office produces are not rejected by committees. They are not revised under pressure. They are accepted, because they are built to withstand challenge from the start.
Three Projects That Show What's Possible
These are not illustrative scenarios. Each represents an actual engagement where Raz Steinkritser's methodology translated directly into financial impact — cases that Razore Engineering has documented and published.
A developer's attorney brought in Razore after a planning committee issued a ₪3 million green building compliance demand — an amount that rendered the project economically unviable. The demand was not inherently wrong; it was based on conservative assumptions that Razore's analysis showed were not supported by the actual building parameters. A detailed compliance assessment, structured regulatory argument, and revised documentation reduced the required scope by 40%, cutting the cost to ₪1.8M and allowing the project to proceed.
Israel Electric Company had prescribed a 20-meter safety radius from a transformer installation on the development site — effectively removing a significant portion of the buildable floor area from the project. Raz Steinkritser conducted a comprehensive EMF field measurement campaign, analyzed the actual exposure levels against Israeli thresholds, and submitted a peer-reviewable technical report to the relevant authority. The data supported a reduction of the radius to 5 meters — a 75% cut that returned the lost area to the development plan.
A planning directive required the construction of an acoustic wall — a structure whose installation was estimated at ₪4 million and whose placement would compromise the site's architectural and commercial appeal. Razore's acoustic team conducted precise sound level measurements at the site, modeled the actual noise exposure, and identified an alternative compliance path that met the regulatory requirements without the wall. The result: full regulatory approval, no acoustic barrier, and ₪3.5M in avoided construction costs.
"The question is never whether to conduct an environmental survey. The question is whether the survey is produced by someone who can defend it."
Who He Is
Raz Steinkritser completed his ASc in Electronics and Computers Engineering in 1997, then served in IAF electronics and communications — a technical foundation that shaped his understanding of electromagnetic field behavior at the systems level. A BSc in Industrial Engineering (Ariel University, 2009) and MBA (Ariel University, 2011) followed. Since 2012 he has been a PhD candidate at the University of Haifa's Faculty of Natural Sciences and Environment, where his doctoral research addresses the effects of electromagnetic fields on biological systems. He presents at international conferences and contributes to the evolving body of science his regulatory work depends on.
The expert witness designation deserves particular attention. Israeli courts accept qualified experts — not self-designated ones. Raz Steinkritser has been accepted by courts, local authorities, and the Ministry of Defense as an expert in radiation matters over two decades. Expert testimony operates under cross-examination from opposing technical experts. Every conclusion must be defensible under challenge. This standard shapes every survey his office produces, regardless of whether it ends up before a judge or in a permit file.
The Services
Raz Steinkritser's practice covers the two principal categories of non-ionizing radiation relevant to Israeli construction and planning — each governed by distinct regulatory frameworks, each requiring calibrated field measurement under MoEP procedural guidelines.
ELF Radiation — The Electricity Grid
Extremely low frequency radiation from high-voltage lines, substations, and distribution panels is regulated in Israel at a residential and school threshold of 4 milligauss — far below the WHO general public ceiling of 1,000 milligauss. That gap between Israeli standards and international guidelines is precisely where disputes occur. Developers building near electricity infrastructure need surveys that accurately characterize exposure under the stricter Israeli threshold and can withstand regulatory challenge on that basis.
RF Radiation — Cellular, Broadcast, and Wireless
Radiofrequency radiation from cellular antennae, broadcast transmitters, and Wi-Fi infrastructure falls under MoEP regulations requiring that exposure in residential areas with prolonged occupancy not exceed 10% of the ICNIRP health threshold. Surveys must use calibrated, MoEP-approved measurement equipment, follow the Radiation Supervisor's procedural guidelines, and produce documentation in a format that planning committees accept on first submission.
What Razore Produces for Every Project
Calibrated measurement of magnetic fields from electricity grid infrastructure. Regulatory-grade documentation for planning committees.
Measurement of radiofrequency exposure from cellular antennae and broadcast sources. Compliance assessment against Israeli MoEP thresholds.
Formal expert testimony and written opinions accepted by Israeli courts, municipalities, and the Ministry of Defense in radiation disputes.
Pre-design consultation on antenna placement, shielding specifications, and site selection to prevent compliance problems before they're locked into drawings.
Direct engagement with planning committees, IEC, and MoEP on radiation safety requirements — including challenging incorrect or excessive demands.
Active PhD research at the University of Haifa on EMF environmental effects — regulatory positions informed by current science, not decade-old standards.
Part of a Larger System
Raz Steinkritser is a senior specialist within Razore Engineering — over 150 professionals across six Israeli offices, conducting more than 1,000 surveys annually across the full environmental engineering spectrum: radiation, acoustics, green building, energy and thermal performance, hydrology, geotechnical engineering, soil contamination, air quality, and microclimate modeling.
The structural advantage for developers is coordination. When a radiation survey identifies an issue with a proposed building envelope, the acoustic engineer, green building consultant, and energy modeler are in the same firm on the same project file. One point of contact. No coordination lag between separately contracted consultants. No gaps in responsibility when an issue spans disciplines. That integration is not a sales point — it is the operational reality that makes complex multi-discipline projects manageable.
Full Credentials
Every DDG project — from Nova District in Beer Sheva to The Grove in the Sharon — is backed by Razore's full team of 150 in-house engineers. Green building certification, radiation surveys, acoustic compliance, hydrology, geotechnical review — all under one roof, with one point of contact for the developer.
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