# Israel adopts a sector-based, risk-based national AI regulation and ethics policy

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2023-12-17
- **Jurisdiction**: Israel
- **Instrument**: Israel's Policy on Artificial Intelligence Regulation and Ethics
- **Impact level**: Routine
- **Status after the change**: Adopted

## What changed

The Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Justice published Israel's AI policy, preferring sector regulation and soft tools over a horizontal law, with common ethical principles and a coordination centre.

## What it means in practice

Organisations in Israel should expect sector regulators, not a single AI law, to set requirements.

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2023-12-17-israel-ai-policy
- **Official source**: https://www.gov.il/en/pages/ai_2023
- **Source document**: Israel's Policy on Artificial Intelligence Regulation and Ethics
- **Published by**: Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: AI Policy Tracker (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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