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The Israeli company number

Israel has VAT, and a company charges it under the same nine digits it was incorporated with โ€” the ืžืกืคืจ ื—ื‘ืจื”, published in full by the Registrar of Companies.

Format: IL + 9 digits

Example: IL520000472

Issued by: the Registrar of Companies (ืจืฉื ื”ื—ื‘ืจื•ืช), at the Ministry of Justice.

The format

An Israeli company number โ€” ืžืกืคืจ ื—ื‘ืจื”, written ื—.ืค. on an invoice โ€” is nine digits, allocated on incorporation and never reissued. Company numbers begin with 5; the same nine-digit space holds other kinds of body under other leading digits, and a natural person's identity number (ืชืขื•ื“ืช ื–ื”ื•ืช) is nine digits too.

The last digit is a check on the other eight, by exactly the rule used for identity numbers:

  • ร—Multiply the digits alternately by 1 and 2, from the left.
  • ฮฃAdd the digits of each product โ€” 2 ร— 7 = 14 contributes 5.
  • mod 10The total is a multiple of 10.

So a mistyped Israeli number can be caught before any network call, like a French key or a Polish NIP.

Company number, Osek Murshe, Osek Patur

This is the distinction to get right. For a company, the VAT registration and the company number are the same nine digits: there is no second number to ask for, and an invoice showing ื—.ืค. is showing you what you need.

For an unincorporated business it is not. A sole trader registers as an ืขื•ืกืง ืžื•ืจืฉื” (Osek Murshe, VAT-charging) or an ืขื•ืกืง ืคื˜ื•ืจ (Osek Patur, below the threshold and charging none), and the number is their personal identity number. Those are not in the Registrar's file, because the Registrar registers companies.

Vatlas therefore answers for Israeli companies. A number the register does not hold comes back as not found rather than as an error.

Finding the company behind the number

The open data portal

The Registrar publishes the whole register on data.gov.il โ€” some 730,000 companies, free, with no account and no key โ€” and the portal answers a single company number directly, so there is nothing to download to resolve one. It returns the registered name, the company type, the status and the full street address.

What the answer contains

More than most registers on this site: street, house number, city, postal code and a country field, plus the company type as a phrase rather than a code โ€” ื™ืฉืจืืœื™ืช ื—ื‘ืจื” ืคืจื˜ื™ืช for a private company, ื™ืฉืจืืœื™ืช ื—ื‘ืจื” ืฆื™ื‘ื•ืจื™ืช for a public one.

Everything is in Hebrew. There is an English name column, but it is filled in on a minority of rows, so the Hebrew name is what Vatlas returns when it is the only one there.

Israel-specific pitfalls

  • A sole trader is not in this register. An Osek Murshe number is a personal identity number and the Registrar does not publish it.
  • Status is not a yes or a no. A company in voluntary liquidation still legally exists and can still be invoiced; a struck-off one cannot. Vatlas reads the register's own status code rather than the wording.
  • The portal writes a double quote as a tilde. ื‘ืข"ืž โ€” the Hebrew for Ltd โ€” arrives as ื‘ืข~ืž on some rows and with the quote simply dropped on others. It is an artefact of the publication, and Vatlas puts it back.
  • Nine digits is not enough to know what you are holding. Identity numbers share the length and the check digit; the leading digit is what tells them apart.

One API, inside Europe and out

Vatlas turns a business tax number into a company record: legal name, national identifier, legal form, status and address. Same call, same shape, for an Israeli company number and for a French VAT number.

curl "https://api.vatlas.dev/v1/lookup/IL520000472" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VATLAS_KEY"

Response:

200 OK

{
  "data": {
    "vatNumber": "IL520000472",
    "countryCode": "IL",
    "nationalId": "520000472",
    "name": "ื—ื‘ืจืช ื”ื—ืฉืžืœ ืœื™ืฉืจืืœ ื‘ืขืž",
    "legalForm": "ื™ืฉืจืืœื™ืช ื—ื‘ืจื” ืฆื™ื‘ื•ืจื™ืช",
    "status": "active",
    "address": {
      "line1": "ื ืชื™ื‘ ื”ืื•ืจ 1",
      "line2": null,
      "postalCode": "3508510",
      "city": "ื—ื™ืคื”",
      "country": "IL"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "RASHAM",
    "sourceDate": "2026-09-13"
  }
}

Israel is asked live rather than imported, so meta.sourceDate is the day of the call. The shape of the response never changes from one country to the next.

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Frequently asked

The Israeli company number in short

How many digits does an Israeli company number have?

Nine, the last of which is a check digit. Company numbers begin with 5.

Is the company number the same as the VAT number?

For a company, yes โ€” the nine digits it was incorporated with are the number it charges VAT under. For a sole trader it is their personal identity number instead.

What is an Osek Murshe?

An unincorporated business registered to charge VAT. An Osek Patur is below the threshold and charges none. Neither is in the Registrar of Companies.

Is the Israeli register free to query?

Yes. The whole Registrar of Companies file is on the national open data portal, with no account and no key.

Why is the company name in Hebrew?

Because that is what the register holds. The English name column exists but is filled in on a minority of rows.

Business numbers in other countries

Last updated 13 September 2026.

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