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Licensed insurance companies in Israel (2026)

PartialPartially verified against the CMISA register, checked 4 Sept 2026.

The 18 insurance companies licensed in Israel in 2026, as recorded by the Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority (CMISA), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.

18Licensed operators
1Life6% of entities5General (non-life)28% of entities1Cross-border groups17 domestically owned

By class of business

Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.

By ownership

  • Domestic private14 78%
  • State-owned / parastatal3 17%
  • Foreign multinational1 6%

“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded

Licensed insurers in Israel

All 18 entities.

InsurerClassOwnershipGroupVerification
AIG IsraelGGeneral (Non-life)Foreign multinationalAIGPartial
Altshuler Shaham InsuranceLLifeDomestic privateAltshuler ShahamPartial
Ashra (Israel Export Insurance Corp)XSpecialty / Credit / CaptiveState-owned / parastatalIsraeli GovernmentPartial
Ayalon InsuranceCCompositeDomestic privateAyalonPartial
Bituach Yashir (IDI Direct)CCompositeDomestic privateIDIPartial
Clal InsuranceCCompositeDomestic privateClalPartial
Hachshara InsuranceCCompositeDomestic privateHachsharaPartial
Harel InsuranceCCompositeDomestic privateHarel GroupPartial
Inbal InsuranceXSpecialty / Credit / CaptiveState-owned / parastatalIsraeli GovernmentPartial
Karnit (Road Accident Victims Fund)XSpecialty / Credit / CaptiveState-owned / parastatalStatutoryPartial
Libra InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateLibraPartial
Menora MivtachimCCompositeDomestic privateMenoraPartial
Migdal InsuranceCCompositeDomestic privateMigdalPartial
PassportcardHHealth / MedicalDomestic privatePassportcardPartial
Phoenix Holdings (The Phoenix)CCompositeDomestic privatePhoenixPartial
Shirbit Insurance -> Bituach YashirGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateDirect Insurance (IDI)Partial
Shlomo InsuranceGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateShlomoPartial
WesureGGeneral (Non-life)Domestic privateWesurePartial

Full table for Israel ↗

Regulatory intelligence: Israel

Read from the register, not written for this page: the supervisor’s regime, the source the list was checked against, and the market notes recorded alongside it.

Register source
Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority, Bituach-Net monthly life-policy data on data.gov.il (dataset 'insurance', 2024-to-date file, report periods Jan 2024 - Aug 2026), retrieved 22 Sep 2026: 8 insurers named
Verification
Partially verified against the regulator register · Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority, Bituach-Net monthly life-policy data on data.gov.il (dataset 'insurance', 2024-to-date file, report periods Jan 2024 - Aug 2026), retrieved 22 Sep 2026: 8 insurers named

No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.

Governing legislation

  • Insurance supervisory and licensing framework · Institutional and insurance framework

    The authority oversees insurance, pension and provident-fund markets, combining institutional soundness with fair and suitable customer treatment. The cited institutional page explains its remit.

Verification log

The CMISA's Bituach-Net data (to Aug 2026) confirms 8 insurers writing life savings business: Ayalon, Clal, Harel, Menora Mivtachim, Migdal, The Phoenix, IDI Direct (Yashir) and Hachshara, the last two reclassified G to C. The general, health, specialty and state rows are not covered, and the full register on gov.il could not be retrieved.

For B2B teams and AI agents

The same rows as static JSON, no key, CORS open, CC BY 4.0. Paged files stay under 96 KB so an agent’s fetch tool never truncates them.

curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/israel.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/israel/insurers/pages/1.json
  • MCP: connect https://insurers.global/mcp and call get_country_summary with { "country": "israel" }, or list_insurers with country, limit and offset for paged rows.
  • OpenAPI 3.1: /api/v1/openapi.json · WebMCP: /.well-known/webmcp.json · Guide: /ai/ · llms.txt
  • Dataset version 2026-09-08+3f3925fad259; every response carries version, verified and licence.