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About
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The National Insurance Institute of Israel (NII), one of the pillars on which social policy in Israel rests, operates under the National Insurance Law, passed by the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) in November 1953. The NII aims to provide weak population groups and families in temporary or long-term difficulties with a financial basis for subsistence. Today the NI Law includes a wide variety of programs, such as old-age and survivors, maternity, children, work injury, general disability, long-term care, unemployment, bankruptcy and liquidation of corporations. In addition to the National Insurance Law, the National Insurance Institute is in charge of enforcing other laws and agreements in the field of social insurance, such as the Income Support Law, designed to protect every family from loss of income and to assist needy populations.
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| Minimizing Poverty - A National Goal | |
The NII serves as an instrument for re-distribution of the national income. The most important social goal the National Insurance Institute has set for itself is to reduce the scope of poverty and the socio-economic gaps in Israel. This goal is achieved by paying benefits to those eligible and providing other services |
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| Funding Sources | |
The main source of financing NII benefits under the National Insurance Law is the national insurance contributions collected from all residents. In 2005 the NII covered 2,430,000 employees – employed by 201,000 employers – and 595,700 non-employed persons, of whom 310,600 were self-employed. |
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| Number Facts | |
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The NII publishes statistics on benefit recipients, on the collection of insurance contributions, on the incidence and the distribution of poverty, and other statistics related to socioeconomic fields. These statistics and other NII data are both for internal use and for the use of external bodies such as government officials, professionals and policymakers. |
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| Office Holders | |
The National Insurance Institute is a corporation by law, under the supervision of the Minister of Social Affairs and subject to the review of the State Comptroller. The Minister is in charge of implementing the National Insurance Law, is authorized to enact regulations to this Law and is chairman of the NII Council. |
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| Public Inquiries | |
Much information can be found in the website regarding your rights and obligations in the National Insurance Institute. There are a variety of ways to contact the National Insurance Institute:
 For complaints and personal appeals, use the Claim Form. Please make sure to note your ID number on the form.
For general questions, use the General Questions Form , and the professional department will respond as soon as possible. Due to the Personal Privacy Law, you are requested not to enclose any personal medical information. For more information (personal information) you can call the National Call Center .
For addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses of local branches and the different service channels, please click here.
The National Call Center provides the followings services: general information, inquiries – personal information, ordering authorizations, debt payments using credit cards, ordering payment stubs, ordering blank forms and guidebooks.
To receive information about National Insurance Institute activities, or to receive an application for public information according to the Freedom of Information Law (obtaining information according to this law entails a token payment), please contact the person in charge of freedom of information.
Site Feedback
It is recommended to check the homepage before you contact us with questions. |
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| Forms and Authorizations | |
On this screen you can print and order claim forms for benefits, forms related to insurance and collection, and authorizations of entitlement to benefits. |
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| Link to Hebrew | |
The Hebrew site is considerably more comprehensive in the services it offers: downloading forms, authorization of receipt of benefits, payment on-line. and other services.
For the Hebrew site –click here. |
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| National Insurance Institute in RSS | |
The National Insurance Institute in RSS The National Insurance Institute website enables you, the surfers of the website, to enjoy the option to receive all of the information that is important to you automatically, directly to your computer. Through RSS technology you can see the title of the information updated in the website, according to your personal preferences, without roaming and looking for new data. |
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