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Israel's AI record runs through its courts and hospitals — an AI assistant for 1,650 judges and aides, AI that flags Clalit patients at risk before symptoms — with a National AI Program approved in June 2026.
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Rank 17 of 171 — IMF AI Preparedness Index
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National Program to accelerate artificial intelligence
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Israel's courts are rolling out an AI assistant to 1,650 judges and legal aides.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael16 Jun 2026
Government Resolution No 4255: Accelerating AI in Israel
Government of Israel — 100,000 advanced AI accelerators and a freshly created National AI Directorate inside the Prime Minister's Office anchor the national AI programme Israel chartered under Government Resolution No. 4255, "Accelerating Artificial Intelligence in Israel and Establishing Global Leadership". Staff there subsequently expanded that charter into a broader AI strategy Israel now brands its National AI Action Plan, rolled out 13 August 2026.
Israeli tax authority says AI tools found NIS 20bn in discrepancies
Israel Tax Authority — Israel Tax Authority Director Shay Aharonovich says AI tax audit tools have uncovered NIS 20 billion in discrepancies, with AI-based checks comparing capital declarations against the authority's other financial data. At the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society in Jerusalem, he said about 4 per cent of filings are scanned today.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorIsrael6 May 2026
Israeli courts roll out AI assistant to 1,650 judges and aides
Israel Courts Administration — Israel's courts administration is extending 'Chat HaMishpat', an AI assistant for judges, from pilot to every judge's and legal assistant's chambers, 1,650 people. The court AI tool, built on Google's Gemini engine by the administration's digital technologies division, handles only case documents securely, summarising pleadings and testimony, analysing documents and making tables. It is meant to lift technical work from judges without touching judicial discretion.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael26 Mar 2026
Israel's judiciary issues AI ethics code for judges and staff
Israel Judicial Authority — Israel's Supreme Court president, Yitzhak Amit, and courts director Tzachi Uziel have issued an AI ethics code for courts to every judge, registrar and staff member. Prepared by a recently appointed team, the judicial AI rules set principles for responsible use across the courts' work and will be reviewed and updated periodically.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael22 Mar 2026
Supreme Court makes Ramat Gan pay for AI-fabricated citations
Supreme Court of Israel — Israel's Supreme Court made Ramat Gan municipality pay a resident NIS 30,000 in costs after AI-fabricated citations tainted its court filings and its school-transport decision for a special-education pupil. Justice Noam Sohlberg noted the erroneous, partly invented, likely AI-generated references recurred three or four times, even after the court raised them, and said uncontrolled AI use by a public authority toward citizens is especially serious. The municipality says it will learn from this and pursue the lawyer responsible.
Evidence of impactGovernment & Public SectorIsrael13 May 2025
Israeli police caught citing AI-fabricated laws in court
Israel Police — AI in law enforcement generated invented statutes that surfaced in a criminal filing from Israel Police, referencing two legal sections lacking any real basis. Mid-hearing at Hadera Magistrates Court, over a seized phone, Judge Ehud Kaplan spotted the fabrication, remarking that 30 years on the bench hadn't prepared him for AI-generated legal citations. Once defence counsel objected, officers dropped the claim.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael30 Apr 2025
Israel's privacy regulator publishes first AI-specific guidance
Israeli Privacy Protection Authority — A first-of-its-kind AI regulation Israel measure has arrived from the Privacy Protection Authority, applying the Privacy Protection Law to artificial intelligence systems. Draft rules demand lawful grounds throughout development and use, mandate consent and opt-in steps, let people challenge flawed algorithmic outputs, and ban harvesting personal data from the web for training — forming Israel's Israeli AI data protection guidance. Enforcement under Amendment 13 follows once comments close on 5 June 2025.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael14 Dec 2023
Israel's policy on AI regulation and ethics: Responsible Innovation
Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology and Ministry of Justice — Israel's Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology and Ministry of Justice built their Israel AI regulation strategy around one idea: "Responsible Innovation", set out in their policy document "Policy, Regulation and Ethics Principles in the Field of Artificial Intelligence." It lists six regulatory and six ethical principles matched to international standards, favouring sector-specific regulators, proportionate risk assessment, and non-binding guidance tools over hard law. This AI governance model keeps oversight decentralised across industries rather than concentrated in one central authority.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael24 Feb 2023
Government Decision No 173: National AI Program adopted
Government of Israel — Israel's National Program for Artificial Intelligence, adopted via Government Decision No. 173, commits up to NIS 500 million between 2023 and 2026 for research and AI infrastructure. A new coordination hub under the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology will handle AI policy implementation and rollout nationwide.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorIsrael24 Feb 2023
Government Center for AI Regulation and Policy established
Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology — Government Decision No. 173 tasked Israel's Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology with building a central hub for coordinating national artificial intelligence oversight. This body, the Government Center for AI Regulation and Policy, links government agencies, advises on ethics and rulemaking, sets direction, handles cooperation abroad, and drives adoption of AI in public administration. Since September 2024 it has also chaired the national expert forum on the technology, anchoring Israel's approach to AI governance coordination.
Government Decision No 212 on AI technological leadership
Government of Israel — Israel handed its Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology overall charge of AI policy Israel-wide under Government Resolution No. 212, spanning regulation, data rules, ethics, cross-border cooperation and public-sector uptake. An inter-ministerial team, chaired by the Ministry's Director General, now studies artificial intelligence questions and drafts proposals. The setup concentrates national AI governance under one office rather than scattering it across departments.
Clalit's AI PRO scans millions of records to find patients at risk, sometimes before they see a doctor.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael18 Oct 2026
Schneider Children's uses AI to build communication boards for nonverbal patients
Clalit-Schneider Children's Medical Center — Clalit-Schneider Children's Medical Center and Code for Israel now make AI communication boards for hospitalised children who cannot speak in five minutes, against more than 30 minutes or even hours by hand. Matched to age, language, gender and background, the printed sheets let young patients flag pain and needs. Speech-language pathologists regain bedside time once spent assembling personalised boards.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael13 Oct 2026
Hadassah performs Israel's first spinal surgery with an AI-enabled robot
Hadassah Ein Kerem — Hadassah Ein Kerem now runs Stealth Axis, an AI spinal surgery robot new to Israel. Combining AI, detailed planning and fine navigation, the machine widens surgeons' reach along the spine. An 18-year-old with severe curvature, among the first robot-assisted spine operations, was soon walking upright.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael12 Oct 2026
Sheba Medical Center has AI-coordinated robots deliver blood and bone marrow
Sheba Medical Center — Sheba Medical Center now has deliverz.ai robots, owned by Gix Internet, ferrying donated blood and bone marrow, beyond earlier chemotherapy runs. The AI hospital logistics software shares errands between machines and human couriers. Gix expects robotic specimen transport to speed laboratory results but offers no outcome data.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael6 May 2026
Clalit launches AI PRO to find patients at risk before symptoms
Clalit Health Services — Clalit Health Services' new in-house AI PRO applies AI risk prediction to millions of medical records, flagging at-risk patients sometimes before any doctor visit and issuing about 200,000 personalised treatment recommendations monthly. A predictive-screening extension shown to over 800 clinicians at a Tel Aviv conference aims at spotting chronic kidney disease and bowel cancer early from background conditions and test-result changes. Clalit keeps final decisions with the treating doctor.
Sheba's emergency department deploys ambient AI to write clinical notes
Sheba Medical Center — ARC, innovation arm of Israel's Sheba Medical Center, deployed SmartER, an ambient AI clinical documentation platform, in its emergency department. Built with Sheba's AI Center and partner ScribeMD, the AI scribe assembles history, nursing intake and prior results pre-consultation, turns the conversation into a structured note and drafts a discharge summary for review.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael29 Oct 2025
Schneider Children's pilots PANDA AI clinical decision assistant for paediatricians
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel (Clalit) — Paediatricians at Schneider Children's Medical Center in Israel now query PANDA (Pediatric AI Navigation and Decision Assistant) in plain language and get instant, protocol-grounded answers as part of an AI clinical decision support pilot. Built jointly by Clalit Innovation and the hospital, the tool uses RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) so every response draws only on the centre's own library of over 600 clinical protocols, never outside sources. Clalit intends to extend this clinical decision-making assistant for paediatricians beyond the trial to its full network of 14 hospitals and 1,600 clinics.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael7 Jul 2025
Meuhedet launches AI assistant in member app
Meuhedet Health Fund — Israel's Meuhedet Health Fund now runs Meuhedet AI, an AI assistant in healthcare app form, an AI-powered patient support tool inside its member portal. Members type everyday requests to locate medical information, book services or fetch documents, avoiding the older menu structure. It builds on Meuhedet's prior Noach chatbot, applying natural language processing to read intent, and functions across every kosher-filter-compatible device.
DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesIsrael2 Feb 2025
Meuhedet deploys Microsoft Copilot across its health system
Meuhedet Health Fund — AI in healthcare lands at Meuhedet Health Fund, where Microsoft Copilot now spans clinical work and administration. Doctor Copilot listens to consultations, writes up notes and proposes referrals; Copilot 365 lifts general office output. Phone and digital queries from patients trigger automated clinical documentation replies, plus adapted options for the Haredi community.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesIsrael17 Sep 2026
Israel Bar Association bars AI agents from unsupervised legal work
Israel Bar Association — National Ethics Committee — Israel's Bar Association National Ethics Committee forbids AI agents to take substantive decisions, advise independently, write pleadings or move cases forward without a lawyer's close oversight and sign-off. Under these rules on AI in legal practice, signed by chair Adv. Menachem Moskowitz, the technology remains a supervised aid and advocates stay accountable.
DeploymentLegal & Professional ServicesIsrael14 Oct 2025
Herzog deploys Harvey AI platform across its technology group
Herzog Fox & Neeman — Herzog Fox & Neeman now runs Harvey AI firm-wide across its Technology Group, targeting cross-border tech M&A work. Lawyers use the platform for accuracy and speed across multi-jurisdictional deals, an AI legal tech deployment building on Herzog's earlier push into AI-assisted legal services.
RegulationLegal & Professional ServicesIsrael7 May 2024
Israel Bar Association ethical guidelines on using AI
Israel Bar Association National Ethics Committee — Israel's Bar Association has mapped out boundaries for AI use in legal practice, telling practitioners to double-check every AI-generated answer before relying on it. Client secrets stay out of open-access systems unless the client signs off in writing, and practices are steered toward closed, in-house platforms instead of public tools when building legal AI applications.
The Education Ministry says all middle-school pupils will learn English with AI software from next school year.
DeploymentEducation & TrainingIsrael10 Jun 2026
Israel says all middle-school pupils will learn English with AI
Ministry of Education (Israel) — Israel's Education Ministry will move every middle-school pupil to AI English learning next school year, with teachers guiding each pupil's progress. The ministry also plans to widen Project 720, which pairs pupils with an AI learning assistant and shows teachers live where pupils struggle, from about 28 pilot schools to 180 middle schools.
Education Ministry rolls out AI robotics programme in 500 kindergartens
Israel Ministry of Education — Roughly 500 kindergartens across Israel now form a testbed for Israel's Education Ministry, piloting AI robotics in early childhood education. Youngsters assemble tracks for small robots, crack puzzles as teams and perform robotic theatre, absorbing basic coding along the way. Educators, meanwhile, gain AI tools to craft personalised activities matched to what each child needs.
Radio Tel Aviv launches Odelia AI, Israel's first AI radio host
Radio Tel Aviv (102FM) — 102FM Tel Aviv gave Odelia AI a daily 2pm-4pm afternoon berth, the first AI radio host anywhere in Israeli broadcasting. Songs, traffic bulletins and comic banter fill its airtime, part of a wider lineup shake-up the station touts as groundbreaking for AI-driven radio presenting.
DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentIsrael3 Mar 2025
Reshet 13 uses Kaltura AI TV Genie to produce news segments
Reshet 13 — Kaltura's AI TV Genie and Content Lab now compress Reshet 13's hour-long evening bulletin into brief, focused clips, an instance of AI video production in journalism handling footage indexing and themed reel assembly. The Israeli broadcaster's site draws 3.5 million unique visitors monthly. Reshet 13 joined over 50 organisations testing this automated news-clip generation software at its March 2025 launch.
Super-Pharm creates first TV advert entirely with AI
Super-Pharm — Super-Pharm, Israel's largest drugstore chain, unveiled an AI advertising production on 30 July, a commercial whose writing, imagery and soundtrack came entirely from machine tools, not human crews. Rona Lichten Ohaion named it the retailer's debut AI-generated television commercial.
Israeli alcohol chain opens first AI-powered store
Sar HaMashkaot — Ramat Gan now hosts Israel's first AI-powered store, opened by alcohol retailer Sar HaMashkaot. Its "smart room" chats with shoppers, gauges their tastes and recommends bottles unaided by staff. Founder Evitar Sdan framed the launch as a trial of automated retail AI, testing whether software alone can drive sales and suggestions.
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Every entry on this page is a named organisation putting AI to work in a real job, taken from the State of Applied AI record. Each one is traced to the report it came from and dated, and where a figure is the organisation’s own the entry says so rather than presenting it as an independent result. Readiness, ecosystem and policy figures, where shown, are attributed on the card to the body that published them.
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