- (199)
- childbirth (89)
birth of a live newborn or birth after the 22nd week of pregnancy
- determining date (90)
The day on which the insured woman ceased working while pregnant, this pregnancy terminating in a birth.
- determining date for risk pregnancy (93)
The day on which the insured woman ceased working due need for precautionary rest as a result of risk pregnancy.
- determining date for the father (168)
the day on which the father stops working due to the start of ininterrupted paternity leave of 7 days together with the mother of the baby and /or in order to replace her, but not before 6 weeks have elapsed from the date of the birth.
- local Israeli worker (94)
An Israeli citizen working as an Israeli representative abroad (in an extension of a government ministry) in a temporary status under the employment rules published by the Civil Service Commission. A person whose spouse is a foreign citizen or who works for a foreign employer will not be employed as a “local Israeli worker.”
- qualifying period (91)
For maternity allowance for mother or father: The period of payment of insurance contributions for the employee, or by the self-employed, for 10 out of the 14 months or for 15 out of the 22 months preceding the determining date; for maternity allowance for mother only: also for 6 out of the 14 months preceding the determining date.
- reference months (181)
Three or six full months of work preceding the day the insured woman stopped working during her pregnancy.
- risk pregnancy (92)
Absence from work due to a medical condition endangering the insured woman or her fetus or due to a nature of work endangering the insured woman or her fetus.