Apostille vs. Embassy legalisation for Israel
Two different systems exist for making a foreign paper trusted abroad, and only one of them is relevant to a document heading for Israel. Embassy legalisation stacks a consulate's own stamp on top of a UK one; an apostille is built to be the final word by itself, replacing that second stage entirely rather than adding to it or duplicating any part of it.
For Israel, document legalisation for Israel in the older two-stage sense simply is not required at all, however familiar that longer route is from other countries. There is no consular appointment to book, no second parcel to send to a different office — the FCDO's apostille closes the UK side of the process on its own, with nothing left over to arrange once it is done.
Israel's Hague status & what it means
Israel joined the Hague Apostille Convention in 1978, well over a decade after the United Kingdom's own accession in 1965, and the treaty makes no distinction between an earlier and a later member joining the same wider agreement. Both countries are simply inside it now, with the same obligations running in both directions, regardless of when each one signed on.
That shared membership is what lets an apostille from United Kingdom to Israel work without any extra approval needed on arrival at the other end. A receiving office checks the certificate against the FCDO's own register rather than deciding fresh whether to trust it that day, which is the entire benefit the Convention was built to provide to both sides of the corridor, every time.
The Nottingham → Israel route step by step
Everything begins with getting the underlying document right, whichever kind of paper it happens to be in this case. Court, education and company papers usually already carry their own signature; a civil record should instead be a certified copy freshly ordered from Nottingham Register Office, so the family's one original stays exactly where it belongs.
After that, the whole route runs by post, without any counter to visit along the way or any queue to stand in. Apostille issued in Nottingham for use in Israel means a single parcel to the FCDO Legalisation Office in Milton Keynes and a single parcel back, with no Israeli office involved at any point before the paper leaves the UK for good.
Cost & timing for this route
The FCDO's fee runs £45 per document by standard post, or £40 per document through the next-day service open to registered businesses only, never to individuals. Everyone else should plan around up to 25 working days, plus the postage time each way, and start the process well ahead of any date fixed on the Israeli side.
What you need for an apostille for Israel does not change from any other Hague destination on the cost side — the fee and the queue belong entirely to the FCDO, set once for the whole treaty and unaffected by which member country a given paper happens to be heading towards next once it finally leaves Milton Keynes.
Destination-specific requirements
An apostille for Israel is the correct and sufficient certification on its own; Israeli institutions receiving a UK paper are set up to accept the FCDO's stamp without asking for anything further attached to it while the paper is still in the UK or somewhere in transit.
A Hebrew translation of the underlying English document may still be wanted by a specific Israeli office once the paper arrives, but that decision is made locally, after the fact, and has no bearing on the apostille stage itself or the process running through Nottingham and Milton Keynes beforehand, and it adds no UK fee on top of what the FCDO already charges for the certificate.