What Israeli company data you can get from OpenRegistry

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Israel's company register is published by the Israeli Corporations Authority (רשם החברות). This post covers what Israeli company data you can get through OpenRegistry: which lookups are available, what every field means, and what the register does not publish openly.

What's available

Two lookups are supported for Israel (IL):

Tool	What it does
search_companies	Find companies by name, in Hebrew or English
get_company_profile	Fetch one company's full record by its company number

Directors, shareholders, filings and charges are not available for Israel. The Corporations Authority provides those only as a paid company extract (נסח חברה), so they are not part of the openly published data.

Licence: Israeli government open-data terms of use, © State of Israel. Attribute the source when you reuse the data.

Company numbers

Every Israeli company has a 9-digit registrar number (ח.פ):

• Israeli private and public companies start with 51 or 52
• Foreign companies registered in Israel start with 56

Spaces and dashes are stripped, so 52-001395-4 and 520013954 are the same company.

Example: a company profile

get_company_profile with jurisdiction: "IL" and company_id: "520013954":

{
  "jurisdiction": "IL",
  "company_id": "520013954",
  "company_name": "טבע תעשיות פרמצבטיות בע~מ",
  "status": "active",
  "status_detail": "פעילה",
  "incorporation_date": "1944-02-13",
  "registered_address": "דבורה הנביאה 124, תל אביב - יפו, 6944020, ישראל",
  "jurisdiction_data": {
    "מספר חברה": 520013954,
    "שם חברה": "טבע תעשיות פרמצבטיות בע~מ",
    "שם באנגלית": "TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED",
    "סוג תאגיד": "ישראלית חברה ציבורית",
    "סטטוס חברה": "פעילה",
    "תאור חברה": "",
    "מטרת החברה": "לעסוק בסוגי עיסוק שפורטו בתקנון",
    "תאריך התאגדות": "13/02/1944",
    "חברה ממשלתית": "לא",
    "מגבלות": "מוגבלת",
    "מפרה": "",
    "שנה אחרונה של דוח שנתי (שהוגש)": 2006,
    "שם עיר": "תל אביב - יפו",
    "שם רחוב": "דבורה הנביאה",
    "מספר בית": "124",
    "מיקוד": 6944020,
    "ת.ד.": "",
    "מדינה": "ישראל",
    "אצל": "טבע תעשיות פרמצבטיות בע~מ ת.ד. 58153 ת~א",
    "תת סטטוס": "",
    "קוד סטטוס חברה": 0,
    "קוד סוג חברה": 1,
    "קוד סיווג חברה": 62,
    "קוד מטרת החברה": 3,
    "קוד מגבלה": 1,
    "קוד חברה מפרה": null,
    "קוד ישוב": 5000,
    "קוד רחוב": 367,
    "קוד מדינה": 376
  }
}

The top-level fields are the same shape for every country OpenRegistry covers. jurisdiction_data is the register's own record, with its original Hebrew field names.

What each field means

Field	English	Notes
מספר חברה	Company number	9 digits
שם חברה	Company name	Hebrew
שם באנגלית	English name	Often empty for small private companies
סוג תאגיד	Corporation type	e.g. Israeli private company, Israeli public company
סטטוס חברה	Company status	See the status table below
תת סטטוס	Sub-status	e.g. בהליכי מחיקה, "in strike-off proceedings"
תאור חברה	Company description	Frequently empty
מטרת החברה	Company objects	e.g. "to engage in any lawful business"
תאריך התאגדות	Incorporation date	DD/MM/YYYY; also given as ISO in incorporation_date
חברה ממשלתית	Government company	Yes / No
מגבלות	Liability	Limited / unlimited
מפרה	Violating company	Set to מפרה when the company is flagged as in breach of its registrar obligations
שנה אחרונה של דוח שנתי (שהוגש)	Last annual report year filed	null if none on record
שם עיר, שם רחוב, מספר בית, מיקוד	City, street, house number, postcode	Registered address
ת.ד.	PO box
מדינה	Country
אצל	Care of (c/o)
קוד …	Numeric codes	Status, type, classification, objects, liability, breach, city, street and country codes

Company statuses

status gives a coarse value that is the same across countries. status_detail keeps the register's exact Hebrew wording.

Hebrew	English	status
פעילה	Active	active
פעילה זמנית	Temporarily active	active
בפרוק מרצון	In voluntary liquidation	inactive
בפרוק ע"י בימ"ש	In court liquidation	inactive
חיסול ע"י בימ"ש	Court winding-up	inactive
פעילה/בפירוק - בכינוס נכסים	Active or in liquidation, in receivership	inactive
פעילה/בפירוק - הליך פשרה או הסדר/פירוק זמני	Active or in liquidation, compromise, arrangement or provisional liquidation	inactive
מחוסלת מרצון	Voluntarily dissolved	dissolved
מחוסלת עקב מיזוג	Dissolved following a merger	dissolved
מחוקה	Struck off	dissolved
נגרעה מהמרשם	Removed from the register	dissolved

Three things worth knowing

1. Check the sub-status, not just the status. A company can be פעילה (active) while its sub-status says בהליכי מחיקה (in strike-off proceedings). For due-diligence work, read תת סטטוס alongside status.
2. The breach flag is a useful risk signal. מפרה marks companies flagged as in breach of their obligations to the registrar, such as unpaid annual fees or missing annual reports. Pair it with שנה אחרונה של דוח שנתי (שהוגש) to see how long ago the company last reported.
3. A ~ stands in for the Hebrew quotation mark. The register writes abbreviations like בע"מ (Ltd) as בע~מ, and ת"א (Tel Aviv) as ת~א. Replace ~ with " if you display names to users.

Searching

Search accepts Hebrew or English. Searching Teva matches companies whose English name contains TEVA as well as Hebrew names containing טבע, so a common word returns many unrelated small companies. When you already know the 9-digit number, go straight to get_company_profile.

Using it

OpenRegistry exposes these tools to MCP clients such as Claude, and to any HTTP client. Setup and the full list of countries are at openregistry.sophymarine.com.