Israel AI Regulation

Where we are now

The first national AI Policy on regulation and ethics was published in December 2023 by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology (MIST) and the Ministry of Justice. It identifies seven key challenges, discrimination, human oversight, explainability, AI interaction disclosure, safety, accountability, and privacy, and recommends a risk-based, sector-specific regulatory approach aligned with the OECD AI Recommendations.

In May 2025, the Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) published draft guidelines on applying the Protection of Privacy Law to AI systems, covering informed consent, data protection impact assessments, restrictions on web scraping for model training, and security against inference attacks. The entry into force of Amendment 13 to the Privacy Protection Law in August 2025 significantly strengthened the PPA's enforcement powers.

An AI Policy Coordination Centre within MIST is being formalised to coordinate cross-sectoral regulatory work. The Ministry of Justice is exploring a potential Framework Law to address algorithmic discrimination, liability for autonomous systems, and the legal status of AI-generated content — though this would supplement rather than replace sectoral rules.

Israel's National AI Program supports infrastructure, talent development, regulatory sandboxes, and compute capacity. An interministerial task force published interim recommendations on AI compute infrastructure and electricity system resilience in February 2026.

Israel signed the Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI (CETS 225) at the opening ceremony in Vilnius on 5 September 2024.