Israel Company Register: How to Search the Registrar of Companies and Verify Israeli Companies (2026)

1. What is the Israeli company register?

Israel keeps its companies in one national register. The Registrar of Companies (רשם החברות) sits inside the Israeli Corporations Authority (רשות התאגידים), which was set up in the Ministry of Justice in 2007, following a government decision of March 2006, as the body responsible for registering and supervising most corporations in the country. The same Authority also runs the registrars of partnerships, pledges, associations and public benefit companies, charitable trusts, political parties, and business names.

The register is governed by the Companies Law, 5759-1999, and its public face is Tagidim Online (תאגידים ברשת, called Corporations Online on the English pages), the Authority's portal at ica.justice.gov.il. It splits what the register knows into a free layer, which anyone can read and which the Ministry also publishes in bulk, and a paid layer that holds the people and the paperwork. The official service pages that explain both are on gov.il, partly in English.

In short: the free lookup tells you a company exists and whether it is in good standing, the extract tells you who owns and runs it, and the corporation file shows you what it actually filed.

2. How to search the Registrar of Companies step by step

Searching is free and needs no account. The search screen is in Hebrew only: the English pages on gov.il describe the services, but the lookup itself offers no English option. If you do not read Hebrew, the labels below are the ones you need.

1. Open the free company search on Tagidim Online

   Go to the free company search on ica.justice.gov.il. There are two fields, שם חברה (company name) and מספר חברה (company number), and a search button labelled אתר. The text above them says the information is provided free, may be incomplete, inaccurate, or out of date, and that the corporation file is the paid source to check it against.

   

2. Search by number whenever you can

   The number field takes nine digits and returns a single row. Name searches work too, but the main name field on every record is the Hebrew one, and many companies in the register's open data, the oldest records among them, have no English name on file at all, so the Hebrew spelling is the safer key.

3. Read the results row

   Each hit shows the corporation number, the Hebrew name, the company type, the status, a law-violator column, and the year of the last annual report. Teva comes back as ישראלית (Israeli), פעילה (active), with the violator column empty and 2006 in the annual report column.

4. Open the company details

   Click the number to expand the record. You get the Hebrew and English names, the incorporation date, the sub-status, the description and purpose, whether it is a government company, whether it is limited, any annual fee debts, and the registered address, including a care-of line.

   

5. Read the annual report year with care

   Only companies that are not reporting corporations under the Securities Law have to file the Registrar's annual report, once a year. Teva is listed as a public company in the register's open data, so before reading anything into its 2006, check whether it reports to the Israel Securities Authority through MAGNA instead. For a private company, a missing report for the current or previous year can lead to violator status.

6. Order the extract or the file for anything else

   Directors, shareholders, capital, and charges are not in the free view. Order the company extract (NIS 12; the English version holds basic data only, without the charges) or the full corporation file (NIS 39) on the same portal: you enter the number and an email address and pay through the Government Payment Service. Several extracts fit in one order. The extract arrives by email right after payment and can be downloaded again free for about two weeks. The file link arrives within about an hour.

3. What data is public and what it costs

Israel charges for people, not for existence. Whether a company is registered and active is free to check, one at a time or in bulk, and its fee debts are free to check one company at a time. Who owns and runs it costs NIS 12 a time. The prices below are the Authority's 2026 fee table, and payments to the state usually carry no VAT.

Two things stand out in that table. Israel publishes its free layer in bulk, so you can check every company's status and violator flag at once without paying anyone. And the people sit behind the paywall: shareholders and directors appear only in the extract, the corporation file, and the reverse search, never in the free lookup or the open data. A paid extract is current to the moment you paid for it, so a fresh check means a fresh NIS 12.

What you will not find in the register: financial statements for most private companies, revenue, employee counts, or industry codes. The annual report a private company files is an update of its details, not its accounts, and a balance sheet is attached only in the cases section 175(a) of the Companies Law sets out, for example when the company's own articles require one. The purpose field does not replace an industry code either: Teva's reads "to engage in the types of business specified in the articles", and in the open data nearly every other company's reads either that or "to engage in any lawful business".

4. Israeli legal forms, briefly

The Companies Unit registers Israeli private and public companies and foreign companies that operate in Israel. Public benefit companies are registered by the Registrar of Associations and Public Benefit Companies, and partnerships and business names have registrars of their own inside the same Authority. Partnerships have a free lookup and a paid extract of their own, separate from the company search.

Two fields on a company record matter as much as the form. מגבלה says whether the company is limited, and חברה ממשלתית says whether it is a government company. Teva's record reads limited and not a government company.

5. How to verify an Israeli company: a practical checklist

1. Confirm the number, the names, and the status

   Search the nine-digit number on Tagidim Online and check that the Hebrew and English names, the type, and the address match what you were given, and that the status reads פעילה (active). For a quick first pass, our free company lookup finds the registration and revenue data in one search.

2. Check the violator flag and the fee debts

   Both are free on the record. A violating company (חברה מפרה) missed its annual report or its annual fees, was warned, and did not fix it within 30 days. While the note stands, the Registrar will not register new charges, a name change, or a merger for it. Unpaid fees for any of the past seven years are one of the two routes to that status.

3. Look at the last annual report year

   A private company that is not a reporting corporation has to file every calendar year, and missing the current or previous year exposes it to violator status. For a public company, look for its reports on the Israel Securities Authority's MAGNA system instead.

4. Buy the extract and check who can sign

   For NIS 12 the Hebrew extract gives you the directors, the shareholders, the capital, and the charges. Check that the person signing for the company is a director. The Authority calls this data declarative: it does not replace the registers of shareholders and directors the company keeps at its registered office, which are open to the public.

5. Read the charges before you extend credit

   The Hebrew extract lists each registered charge with its type, its registration and creation dates, and a description of the charged assets. The English extract leaves the charges out. Tick the extended extract at no extra cost to add the Bank of Israel's restricted-account data, the company's patents and trademarks, and other data from government sources.

6. Pull the file for the articles

   The corporation file (NIS 39) holds the certificate of incorporation, any name change certificates, and the articles as filed. The documents carry a secure electronic signature and are admissible in court once printed.

7. Run a reverse search on the people

   If you can log in through the national identification system or with a smart card, a reverse search (NIS 12 per search) lists the companies in which a director or shareholder holds office or shares, with start and end dates. Public benefit companies are excluded. A cluster of recent appointments is worth a question.

6. Limitations of the official register

To be clear: for a handful of lookups, the Israeli register is cheap, quick, and unusually open about status. The limits appear when you need people, accounts, scale, or an interface in another language:

• Hebrew only. The search screen, the result columns, and the record labels are all in Hebrew. The English gov.il pages explain the services but do not translate the lookup.
• No people in the free layer. Directors and shareholders appear only in the paid extract, the corporation file, and the reverse search, never in the free lookup or the open data file.
• No accounts for most private companies. The annual report is a details update, not financial statements. Companies that report to the Israel Securities Authority publish prospectuses and periodic reports through MAGNA instead.
• The data is officially provisional. The Authority states that the free information may be incomplete, inaccurate, or out of date, and that shareholder and director data in a company file is declarative only.
• A 14-day reporting window. Changes to the capital, the shareholders, the board, and the address must be reported within 14 days, so a recent change can be missing for that long, or longer if a company reports late.
• The person search needs a local login. The reverse search requires the national identification system or a smart card. Without either, you cannot go from a person to their companies.
• No resale of extracts. Ordering an extract means agreeing not to distribute extracts commercially to the public for more than the statutory fee.
• Bulk stops at the basics. The open data file covers status in bulk, but extracts and files are paid per company and reverse searches per search.

If you check one Israeli supplier a quarter, none of this matters. If you onboard hundreds, it is the whole problem.

7. Access Israeli register data programmatically

The register has an official machine route, and it is a good one for what it covers. The companies database on data.gov.il is free, refreshed daily, and queryable through the open data portal's API. It stops at the basic fields: no directors, no shareholders, no documents, and no financial data.

CompanyData maintains a normalized database of all 948,241 Israeli entities, sourced directly from the Israeli register and refreshed as new entries and filings appear. Records are enriched with revenue, employee, and contact data, and the official register publishes no revenue or employee figures at all.

Our Company Data API lets you look up any Israeli entity by company number, name, or address and get structured JSON back in real time, with 150 free lookups to start and no Hebrew interface to work through. It is used by developers, banks, and insurers across 190+ countries, so Israeli checks work exactly like checks anywhere else.

GET /v1/companies?country=IL&registration_id=520013954

{
  "name": "TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED",
  "registration_id": "520013954",
  "city": "Tel Aviv - Yafo",
  "status": "active",
  "incorporation_date": "1944-02-13",
  "last_annual_report": 2006
}

Every field above is what the free record on Tagidim Online shows for Teva: the registered English name, the nine-digit number, the city of the registered address (תל אביב - יפו on the record), the status פעילה (active), the incorporation date, and the year in the annual report column. Revenue and employee counts come back on the same record where we hold them, and are absent here for the reason this guide keeps running into: the Israeli register does not publish them.

8. Israel vs other company registers

Israel is generous with status data and keeps people and accounts behind a fee or out of the register altogether. For context: