What is an Israeli company number?

The ח.פ. (company number): 9 digits starting 51 (a private Israeli company), 52 (a public Israeli company) or 56 (a foreign company), such as 520013954 for Teva. It is often written 51-000001-1, and a Hebrew ח.פ. prefix is accepted. The last digit is a check digit, but the check is advisory, so a mismatch is a warning and the number is still looked up. Another 9-digit number, such as a personal ID, is refused on its prefix.

Are company names in Hebrew or English?

The company name is in Hebrew, as registered. Where the register holds an English name, it is in registry_details. The name search works in Hebrew and in English.

Does the Israeli record have a VAT number or an activity code?

No. The register data carries no VAT number, no activity code and no share capital.

Which statuses does an Israeli company have?

Active; in voluntary liquidation; in liquidation by order of a court; in receivership; in restructuring or insolvency proceedings; merged away; and struck off. The register’s own status code is kept beside the standard status. There are no insolvency notices: the proceedings show in the status.

Which Israeli entities are included?

Israeli companies (private and public) and registered foreign companies. Partnerships, cooperative societies, non-profit associations (amutot) and sole traders belong to other registers and are never served, so a lookup of one returns nothing even though it exists.

What do the district, liability and public-benefit fields mean?

The district (region) is the administrative district of the registered address. Liability says whether the company’s liability is limited or unlimited. Government company and public-benefit company are flags the register keeps (a public-benefit company is a חל"צ).

What is the Israeli Corporations Authority (Registrar of Companies)?

The Corporations Authority (רשות התאגידים) of the Ministry of Justice includes the Israeli Registrar of Companies. Every company has a company number (ח.פ.) of 9 digits, for example 520013954 for Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, 520042821 for Check Point Software Technologies and 520000118 for Bank Hapoalim.

The company number

9 digits starting 51 (private Israeli company), 52 (public Israeli company) or 56 (foreign company), sometimes written 51-000001-1. The last digit is a check digit, but the check is advisory: a mismatch is a warning and the number is still looked up.

What Prometiam serves for Israel

Company records from the Israeli Corporations Authority (Ministry of Justice): the company name in Hebrew and, where the register holds one, in English, legal form, status (including liquidation, receivership, restructuring and insolvency proceedings), registered address with the district, whether liability is limited, the government-company and public-benefit flags, and dates; updated daily. Israeli and registered foreign companies only. Partnerships, cooperative societies, non-profit associations and sole traders are other registers and are never served. No officers, no registry-compliance signal, no VAT number, no activity code, no share capital and no insolvency notices. Register-change events (name, status, legal form and registered address changes, dated when the change first appears in the register data, none before the first load in October 2026) and company monitoring are available.

Querying Israeli companies

GET /companies/search?company_number=520013954&country=IL returns the record. A name search works in Hebrew and in English. The free company number lookup runs the same call without a key.

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Official source: data.gov.il. Contains information from the Israeli Corporations Authority, Ministry of Justice, via data.gov.il (used under the data.gov.il terms of use). Adapted by Prometiam; not an official register extract.

Who supplies what

Name	What it is
Corporations Authority (Ministry of Justice)	The Registrar of Companies. The source of the company number, name, legal form, status, registered address, district, liability and founding date.
data.gov.il	The national open data portal, where the Authority publishes the company list under the data.gov.il terms of use.
Company number (ח.פ.)	The 9-digit key you store for the register record.
Credit line	Prometiam’s Israeli records carry "Contains information from the Israeli Corporations Authority, Ministry of Justice, via data.gov.il (used under the data.gov.il terms of use). Adapted by Prometiam; not an official register extract."

What an Israeli record holds

Field	Notes
Company name	The name in Hebrew, as registered. The English name, where the register holds one, is in `registry_details`.
Legal form	Private Israeli company, public Israeli company, bond-issuing company or foreign (overseas) company, as the register classifies it.
Status	Active; in voluntary liquidation; in liquidation by order of a court; in receivership; in restructuring or insolvency proceedings; merged away; struck off. The register’s own status code is kept beside the standard status.
Registered address	Street and number, city and postal code, with the district in `region` (Tel Aviv District, Haifa District and so on).
Liability	Whether the company’s liability is limited or unlimited.
Flags	Whether it is a government company and whether it is a public-benefit company (חל"צ).
Dates	The founding date.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Israeli Corporations Authority?: The Corporations Authority (רשות התאגידים) of the Ministry of Justice, which includes the Registrar of Companies. Its open data on data.gov.il is the source of the Israeli company records Prometiam serves.
What is an Israeli company number?: The ח.פ. (company number): 9 digits starting 51 (a private Israeli company), 52 (a public Israeli company) or 56 (a foreign company), such as 520013954 for Teva. It is often written 51-000001-1, and a Hebrew ח.פ. prefix is accepted. The last digit is a check digit, but the check is advisory, so a mismatch is a warning and the number is still looked up. Another 9-digit number, such as a personal ID, is refused on its prefix.
Are company names in Hebrew or English?: The company name is in Hebrew, as registered. Where the register holds an English name, it is in registry_details. The name search works in Hebrew and in English.
Does the Israeli record have a VAT number or an activity code?: No. The register data carries no VAT number, no activity code and no share capital.
Which statuses does an Israeli company have?: Active; in voluntary liquidation; in liquidation by order of a court; in receivership; in restructuring or insolvency proceedings; merged away; and struck off. The register’s own status code is kept beside the standard status. There are no insolvency notices: the proceedings show in the status.
Does Prometiam serve officers, company events or insolvency notices for Israel?: No. Israeli records are company-level: no officers, no registry-compliance signal, no VAT number, no activity code, no share capital and no insolvency notices. Register-change events (name, status, legal form and registered address changes, dated when the change first appears in the register data, none before the first load in October 2026) and company monitoring are available.
Which Israeli entities are included?: Israeli companies (private and public) and registered foreign companies. Partnerships, cooperative societies, non-profit associations (amutot) and sole traders belong to other registers and are never served, so a lookup of one returns nothing even though it exists.
What do the district, liability and public-benefit fields mean?: The district (region) is the administrative district of the registered address. Liability says whether the company’s liability is limited or unlimited. Government company and public-benefit company are flags the register keeps (a public-benefit company is a חל"צ).
How often is the data updated?: Daily.