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Is there any point or benefit in completing the process of guardianship, already started abroad, for a mentally ill adult relative who has been accepted for 'Aliyah' to Israel and is arriving from the U.S. within a few weeks?

Yes ! Even though you will need to get a  guardianship appointment in Israel, too, if such an order has already been granted recently in the U.S., having a foreign order  will certainly speed up the process over here . Your aim would be to get the foreign guardianship order recognized by the family court in Israel, in accordance with the 1958 Recognition of Foreign Judgments' Acts, as part of the Israeli proceedings, and,thereby, shorten the process of appointment under the 1962 Legal Capacity and Guardianship Act. Certainly, all the relevant necessary medical evidence  concerning the need for guardianship would lie abroad, anyway, and would be far easier to gather overseas, before making "Aliyah".

Furthermore, if the assets of the person for whom the guardianship is being obtained are primarily overseas,it will certainly be advantageous to complete the process overseas,as it will make access to funds much simpler.