Conditions of entitlement


An employee or a provident fund may be eligible for a benefit if the employer was subject to a permanent liquidation order, a bankruptcy order or an order to initiate proceedings.

The employer can be a private individual, a corporation, a partnership or a cooperative society.

For claims submitted before 15.9.12, an authorization by the appointed trustee in the proceeding is required

Who is eligible?

  • A salaried employee.
  • A member of a moshav or kibbutz for at least 7 years, as well as a member of a cooperative society that is a renovating kibbutz, if he or she worked either in the society's factory or on its behalf.
  • A foreign worker or a worker from the Palestinian Authority or Judea and Samaria.
  • Survivors of a deceased salaried employee who was entitled to the benefit.
  • A provident fund.

Who is ineligible?

  • A self-employed worker
  • A controlling shareholder in a closed company (a corporation controlled by 5 individuals at most).
  • A foreign worker and worker from the Palestinian Authority or Judea and Samaria - illegally staying in the country.