# Israel

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Israel
- **ISO code**: IL
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Asia / Western Asia

## In brief

Israel has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI policy (2023) as policy; sector regulators act within existing law; no horizontal AI statute. Regulators include Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, Privacy Protection Authority. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Israel published its national AI regulation and ethics policy in December 2023 (Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology with the Ministry of Justice), choosing a sector-based, risk-based and voluntary approach with common ethical principles, soft regulation tools and a government AI policy coordination centre rather than a horizontal AI law. The Privacy Protection Authority issued guidance on AI and privacy, and Israel signed the Council of Europe Framework Convention.

## Regulatory status

National AI policy (2023) as policy; sector regulators act within existing law; no horizontal AI statute.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: AI regulation and ethics policy (2023).

## Regulators

- Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology — AI policy lead; AI policy coordination centre — https://www.gov.il/en/departments/ministry_of_science_and_technology
- Privacy Protection Authority — Data-protection authority — https://www.gov.il/en/departments/the_privacy_protection_authority

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.

## Official sources

- Israel's policy on artificial intelligence regulation and ethics — Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology — https://www.gov.il/en/pages/ai_2023

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Israel's Policy on Artificial Intelligence Regulation and Ethics** — Policy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/israel-ai-regulation-and-ethics-policy-2023
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/israel-ai-regulation-and-ethics-policy-2023.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/israel
- **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**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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