Open Company Data in Israel: Official Sources, APIs and Reuse Rights

Israel is a strong non-European market for official open company data because the Israeli Corporations Authority publishes company and company-change datasets through data.gov.il. A useful reference article still needs more nuance than a short list of links. The company dataset, changes dataset, live Corporations Authority search, procurement sources, MAGNA filings, Bank of Israel lists, Central Bureau of Statistics context, Innovation Authority programmes and GLEIF records each prove different things.

This deep refresh helps analysts, KYB teams, market researchers and data buyers separate official open data, paid extracts, sector enrichment and blocked reuse claims. Israel has official open company datasets, yet full extracts, document-level records, Hebrew workflows and contact-data use require separate handling.

The existing CompaniesData article is already public at https://companiesdata.cloud/open-company-data-israel.html, but the Wave 7 version predates the current editorial standard. The 2026-06-09 source recheck found 11 publication-safe official or high-quality sources, 3 held routes, no hard 404/410 failures and 5 clean critical ICA/open-data routes. Held routes in this run are: Company extract service, Israeli Corporations Authority, Israel Patent Office.

Key Takeaways

• Best core source: data.gov.il hosts ICA company and company-change datasets.
• Best live verification route: ICA company search passed QA and supports status/name checks, with Hebrew workflow caveats.
• Best enrichment stack: procurement data, MAGNA, Bank of Israel, Innovation Authority, CBS and GLEIF add official context.
• Held routes: gov.il company extract, gov.il ICA authority and Patent Office pages returned challenge behaviour from this node and need browser/manual QA before clean linking.
• Reuse boundary: open registry data is not permission to create cold email, phone, lead-list or sales-prospecting contact databases.

Editorial Methodology

The CompaniesData method starts with official sources first. Each Israeli source is classified by authority, access model, reuse note, business use, limitation, link policy and live-check result. A source is clean for publication only when automated QA returns real content or data without a hard 404/410, access challenge, bot-protection title, empty challenge page or misleading soft-block response.

For Israel, that means giving priority to data.gov.il company and change datasets from the Israeli Corporations Authority, then adding the ICA live search as a verification route. Procurement, securities filings, banking supervision, statistics, innovation grants and GLEIF records are valuable enrichment layers, but they are not substitutes for the company register. The gov.il extract and authority pages remain source-relevant but held because the automated route returned challenge pages.

Source logos and favicons are decorative recognition cues only. They make the Resource Pack and Source Matrix easier to scan, but the evidence remains the official URL, source owner, access model, reuse note, limitation and access date. Any final publication must keep those evidence fields visible on the page.

Coverage, Access and Update-Risk Analysis

ICA company open-data layer: the data.gov.il company dataset is the strongest source for an open company data article about Israel. Production reuse still needs the dataset URL, resource URL, update date, licence/terms note and field-level provenance.

ICA changes layer: the company-change dataset can support monitoring and update workflows. It is not a standalone master record; join it to the company dataset and live registry status.

Live registry/search layer: the ICA company search passed automated QA and is useful for live verification. Its interface can be Hebrew-first, and search access is not an unrestricted scraping licence.

gov.il extract layer: the official company extract service is important because it explains basic free information and paid full extracts. It returned challenge behaviour from this node, so the draft treats it as held until browser QA clears it. Even after QA clears it, full extracts should be framed as paid or controlled, not open bulk.

Procurement layer: the data.gov.il tenders dataset and Government Procurement portal are clean in this run. They enrich tender and supplier context, but procurement participation is not complete registry coverage or marketing-contact permission.

Securities layer: MAGNA is the official securities filings route for listed and regulated entities. It should carry a sector/listed-company flag in any normalized model.

Banking, statistics and innovation layers: Bank of Israel supervised banking corporations, CBS and Israel Innovation Authority records add financial, aggregate and grant/programme context. These are official sources, but each is a subset. They should enrich the ICA backbone rather than replace it.

IP and LEI layers: the Patent Office page is held in this run because gov.il returned a challenge. GLEIF passed cleanly and is useful for standardized LEI matching. LEI coverage is partial and skewed toward regulated, financial and cross-border entities.

Reuse Checklist

• Authority check: store whether each field came from ICA data.gov.il, ICA live search, gov.il extract, procurement, MAGNA, Bank of Israel, CBS, Innovation Authority, Patent Office or GLEIF.
• Access-model check: label open-data dataset, resource/table, live search, paid extract, portal, filing search, sector list, statistics source, grant/programme source or public API.
• Licence and terms check: preserve data.gov.il terms, dataset metadata, attribution requirement, no-endorsement wording, service terms and paid-extract limits.
• Source-date check: keep dataset update date, access date, local ingestion date, parser version and transform version.
• Language check: flag Hebrew-first workflow, Hebrew field labels, transliteration needs and English-name availability.
• Coverage check: keep registry data separate from procurement, securities, banking, statistics, grants, IP and LEI enrichment.
• Privacy check: identify officer names, addresses, representatives, filing metadata and natural-person-adjacent fields for privacy review.
• Marketing check: do not infer email, phone, WhatsApp or sales-prospecting permission from official company, procurement or filing data.
• Bulk-claim check: do not say every official extract, document, historical filing or beneficial-owner record is free open bulk data.

Resource Pack

Source-by-Source Deep Dives

1. Israeli Corporations Authority company dataset

Authority: Israeli Corporations Authority / Ministry of Justice. Type: official registry bulk/open data. Access: open-data dataset / table / resource downloads. Reuse: data.gov.il open-data terms and dataset-specific metadata. Core list of companies from the official Corporations Authority registry dataset. Ingestion: preserve URL, access date, update date, field provenance and Hebrew/English workflow notes. Limitation: Field coverage differs from paid full extracts and live registry searches.

2. Israeli Corporations Authority company dataset resource

Authority: Israeli Corporations Authority / Ministry of Justice. Type: official registry resource/table. Access: data table / download route. Reuse: data.gov.il open-data terms and dataset-specific metadata. Resource-level evidence for the company dataset and practical download/table route. Ingestion: preserve URL, access date, update date, field provenance and Hebrew/English workflow notes. Limitation: Resource snapshots need update-date capture and field-level provenance.

3. Israeli Corporations Authority changes dataset

Authority: Israeli Corporations Authority / Ministry of Justice. Type: official registry change data. Access: open-data dataset / table / resource downloads. Reuse: data.gov.il open-data terms and dataset-specific metadata. Company and partnership change events for incremental update monitoring. Ingestion: preserve URL, access date, update date, field provenance and Hebrew/English workflow notes. Limitation: Changes must be joined carefully to the company master dataset and live registry status.

4. Corporations Authority company search

Authority: Israeli Corporations Authority / Ministry of Justice. Type: official live company search. Access: search workflow. Reuse: registry service terms and Hebrew workflow limits. Live verification route for company names, numbers and status. Ingestion: preserve URL, access date, update date, field provenance and Hebrew/English workflow notes. Limitation: Interface is primarily Hebrew and not an unrestricted scraping licence.

5. data.gov.il tenders dataset

Authority: Government Procurement Administration / Prime Minister's Office data layer. Type: official procurement open data. Access: open-data dataset / resource downloads. Reuse: data.gov.il open-data terms and dataset-specific metadata. Tender and supplier enrichment through official open data. Ingestion: preserve URL, access date, update date, field provenance and Hebrew/English workflow notes. Limitation: Procurement-only layer, not complete company-register coverage.

6. Israel Government Procurement

Authority: Government Procurement Administration. Type: official procurement portal. Access: portal / live tenders / supplier workflow. Reuse: procurement portal terms. Live tender notices and procurement context. Ingestion: preserve URL, access date, update date, field provenance and Hebrew/English workflow notes. Limitation: Portal data is not normalized company-register data or marketing permission.

7. MAGNA distribution site

Authority: Israel Securities Authority. Type: official securities filings. Access: filing search / listed-company disclosures. Reuse: ISA/MAGNA website and filing terms. Listed-company filings, announcements and regulated-market enrichment. Ingestion: preserve URL, access date, update date, field provenance and Hebrew/English workflow notes. Limitation: Listed/regulated-company scope only.

8. Bank of Israel supervised banking corporations

Authority: Bank of Israel. Type: financial institution list. Access: official supervised banking corporation list. Reuse: Bank of Israel website terms. Banking and regulated financial entity context. Ingestion: preserve URL, access date, update date, field provenance and Hebrew/English workflow notes. Limitation: Sector-specific list only.

9. Israel Innovation Authority

Authority: Israel Innovation Authority. Type: official innovation/grants authority. Access: programme and grant context / publications. Reuse: programme-specific terms. Innovation grants and funded-company context. Ingestion: preserve URL, access date, update date, field provenance and Hebrew/English workflow notes. Limitation: Not a company register and not proof of complete business coverage.

10. Central Bureau of Statistics

Authority: Central Bureau of Statistics Israel. Type: official statistics. Access: statistics / publications / datasets. Reuse: CBS publication and dataset terms. Business demography and economic context. Ingestion: preserve URL, access date, update date, field provenance and Hebrew/English workflow notes. Limitation: Aggregate/statistical layer, not legal-entity master data.

11. GLEIF LEI records for Israel

Authority: global official LEI system. Type: LEI API. Access: public API. Reuse: GLEIF open data licence with attribution and no-endorsement conditions. Cross-border legal-entity identifier enrichment for Israeli entities with LEIs. Ingestion: preserve URL, access date, update date, field provenance and Hebrew/English workflow notes. Limitation: LEI coverage is partial and skewed toward financial/cross-border entities.

Practical Manual, API and Bulk Options

1. data.gov.il company dataset route

Start with the ICA company dataset on data.gov.il and its resource-level table or download route. Record the dataset URL, resource URL, update date, source owner and licence metadata before promising any field coverage.

2. data.gov.il changes dataset route

Use the changes dataset for incremental monitoring. Store event type, event date, company identifier, source update date and ingestion timestamp, then reconcile each event to the master company list.

3. ICA live search route

Use the live ICA company search for current status, exact company number and Hebrew legal-name checks. Treat it as a search workflow, not an anonymous full-database scrape.

4. gov.il extract route

The company extract service explains free basic information and paid full extracts. Because it challenged automated QA, verify it manually or keep it held/conditional.

5. Procurement route

Use data.gov.il tenders and Government Procurement for supplier and tender enrichment. Store procurement fields separately because supplier coverage does not define all Israeli companies.

6. Securities and financial-regulator route

Use MAGNA for listed-company filings and Bank of Israel for supervised banking corporations. Both are official subset sources and need subset flags.

7. Statistics, grants and LEI route

Use CBS for aggregate context, Innovation Authority for programme context, and GLEIF for LEI matching. Each improves confidence but remains partial.

Held Source-Risk Findings

• Company extract service: held in automated QA with live-check result 403 and title Just a moment.... It remains source-relevant, but final publication should link it only after browser/source QA clears the route. Scope: Full extracts are paid/controlled; gov.il route may challenge automated QA.
• Israeli Corporations Authority: held in automated QA with live-check result 403 and title Just a moment.... It remains source-relevant, but final publication should link it only after browser/source QA clears the route. Scope: Institutional page, not a dataset; gov.il route may challenge automated QA.
• Israel Patent Office: held in automated QA with live-check result 403 and title Just a moment.... It remains source-relevant, but final publication should link it only after browser/source QA clears the route. Scope: IP layer only; gov.il route may challenge automated QA.
• Paid extract claim: blocked. The open-data company dataset and changes dataset are strong, but full official extracts can still be paid or controlled.
• Universal document claim: blocked. Do not imply every filing, officer detail, document image or historical event is available in one free bulk file.
• Contact-use claim: blocked. Company, officer, procurement, filing and registry data do not create consent for unsolicited outreach, email extraction, phone lists or sales-prospecting databases.

Missing-Data Gaps

• Paid full extracts: full official extracts may be paid or controlled and should not be described as open bulk.
• Document-level filings: the open company dataset does not automatically prove that every document image, filing or historical event is available for reuse.
• Beneficial ownership: do not claim complete beneficial-owner coverage from the clean source stack.
• Hebrew workflows: live search, names and field labels may require Hebrew handling, transliteration and careful English documentation.
• Officer and address data: natural-person-adjacent fields and addresses require privacy and lawful-use review before enrichment or redistribution.
• Procurement subset: procurement sources cover tenders and suppliers, not every registered company.
• Regulated subset: MAGNA and Bank of Israel are high-value but sector/listed-company sources.
• Contact fields: emails, phones and outreach-ready contacts are not established by the official company dataset and require a separate compliant contact-data workflow.

Recommended Data Model

• Entity table: CompaniesData id, ICA company number, normalized legal name, source legal name, entity type, status, country, source URL, access date and source confidence.
• Open-data table: data.gov.il dataset id, resource id, dataset title, resource URL, visible update date, licence note, field list and ingestion timestamp.
• Change-events table: company number, change type, event date, source update date, event payload, join status and parser version.
• Name table: Hebrew name, English name where present, transliteration, normalized token form, former names and alias confidence.
• Search-verification table: live ICA search timestamp, searched identifier, returned status, route notes and manual-review flag.
• Extract table: extract type, free or paid flag, source service, document date, retrieval condition and reuse limitation.
• Procurement table: tender id, buyer agency, supplier name, procurement title, notice or award status, publication date and procurement-only flag.
• Securities table: MAGNA issuer, filing id, filing type, publication date, listed-company flag and regulator source URL.
• Regulator and grants table: Bank of Israel supervised entity name, Innovation Authority programme/grant signal, source date and subset flag.
• LEI table: LEI, legal name, registration status, managing LOU, GLEIF update timestamp and Israel subset flag.
• Compliance flags: open-data-attribution, paid-extract, Hebrew-workflow, privacy-review, contact-use-blocked, procurement-only, listed-subset, banking-subset, grant-context-only, lei-subset and manual-review-required.

CompaniesData Normalization and Enrichment Value

Israel has strong official open data, but raw source access is not the same as a normalized commercial dataset. CompaniesData.cloud can preserve ICA provenance, resource metadata, change-event logic, Hebrew/English names, enrichment joins, source terms and update dates.

For English and international audiences, CompaniesData.cloud is the owned route for Israeli company datasets and compliant enrichment context. Request a CompaniesData sample for Israel if you need normalized fields rather than a manual list of portals. For Spanish-speaking or Hispanic contact-data workflows, CentraldeComunicacion.es is the owned route, but private contact-data enrichment remains separate from official registry reuse.

Important boundary: enrichment for KYB, CRM cleanup and market research is not permission for cold email, phone lists, messaging campaigns or unrestricted resale.

Source Matrix

Source	Owner / authority	Access model	Reuse note	Main limitation
Israeli Corporations Authority company dataset	Israeli Corporations Authority / Ministry of Justice	open-data dataset / table / resource downloads	data.gov.il open-data terms and dataset-specific metadata	Field coverage differs from paid full extracts and live registry searches.
Israeli Corporations Authority company dataset resource	Israeli Corporations Authority / Ministry of Justice	data table / download route	data.gov.il open-data terms and dataset-specific metadata	Resource snapshots need update-date capture and field-level provenance.
Israeli Corporations Authority changes dataset	Israeli Corporations Authority / Ministry of Justice	open-data dataset / table / resource downloads	data.gov.il open-data terms and dataset-specific metadata	Changes must be joined carefully to the company master dataset and live registry status.
Corporations Authority company search	Israeli Corporations Authority / Ministry of Justice	search workflow	registry service terms and Hebrew workflow limits	Interface is primarily Hebrew and not an unrestricted scraping licence.
data.gov.il tenders dataset	Government Procurement Administration / Prime Minister's Office data layer	open-data dataset / resource downloads	data.gov.il open-data terms and dataset-specific metadata	Procurement-only layer, not complete company-register coverage.
Israel Government Procurement	Government Procurement Administration	portal / live tenders / supplier workflow	procurement portal terms	Portal data is not normalized company-register data or marketing permission.
MAGNA distribution site	Israel Securities Authority	filing search / listed-company disclosures	ISA/MAGNA website and filing terms	Listed/regulated-company scope only.
Bank of Israel supervised banking corporations	Bank of Israel	official supervised banking corporation list	Bank of Israel website terms	Sector-specific list only.
Israel Innovation Authority	Israel Innovation Authority	programme and grant context / publications	programme-specific terms	Not a company register and not proof of complete business coverage.
Central Bureau of Statistics	Central Bureau of Statistics Israel	statistics / publications / datasets	CBS publication and dataset terms	Aggregate/statistical layer, not legal-entity master data.
GLEIF LEI records for Israel	global official LEI system	public API	GLEIF open data licence with attribution and no-endorsement conditions	LEI coverage is partial and skewed toward financial/cross-border entities.

FAQ

Is Israel a strong open company data country?

Yes. Israel is strong because the Israeli Corporations Authority company dataset and company-change dataset are available through data.gov.il, and the live ICA search also cleared automated QA in this run.

What is the best first source for Israel company data?

Start with the ICA company dataset on data.gov.il, then use the ICA changes dataset for updates and ICA live search for verification. Add procurement, MAGNA, Bank of Israel, CBS, Innovation Authority and GLEIF as enrichment.

Can the company changes dataset replace the company master dataset?

No. The changes dataset is useful for monitoring events, but it should be joined to the master company dataset and live status before downstream use.

Are full official company extracts free open bulk data?

No automatic conclusion follows. The official extract route can include free basic information and paid full extracts. This draft keeps the gov.il extract page held until browser QA clears the challenge route.

Can MAGNA be used as the main company register?

No. MAGNA is an official securities filings source for listed or regulated entities. It is valuable enrichment, but it does not cover all Israeli companies.

Can procurement data identify every Israeli company?

No. Procurement data identifies suppliers and tender activity. It is useful commercial context, not the full registry universe.

Why are gov.il and Patent Office routes held?

They returned challenge pages from the automated QA node. They remain official and source-relevant, but a public refresh should link them only after browser/manual QA clears the exact route.

Can open company data be used for cold outreach?

No. Public company, officer, procurement or filing data is not sales-prospecting permission. Outreach requires separate lawful basis, suppression handling and opt-out controls.

Why use CompaniesData if data.gov.il has official datasets?

Because users still need normalization, field provenance, Hebrew/English handling, change-event reconciliation, enrichment joins, update tracking, privacy flags and delivery formats that are ready for business systems.

Official Sources

• Israeli Corporations Authority company dataset – Israeli Corporations Authority / Ministry of Justice
• Israeli Corporations Authority company dataset resource – Israeli Corporations Authority / Ministry of Justice
• Israeli Corporations Authority changes dataset – Israeli Corporations Authority / Ministry of Justice
• Corporations Authority company search – Israeli Corporations Authority / Ministry of Justice
• data.gov.il tenders dataset – Government Procurement Administration / Prime Minister's Office data layer
• Israel Government Procurement – Government Procurement Administration
• MAGNA distribution site – Israel Securities Authority
• Bank of Israel supervised banking corporations – Bank of Israel
• Israel Innovation Authority – Israel Innovation Authority
• Central Bureau of Statistics – Central Bureau of Statistics Israel
• GLEIF LEI records for Israel – global official LEI system