Israel Companies Registrar — Status, Type & Address Lookup

Israel Companies Registrar — Status, Type & Address Lookup

Look up Israeli companies via the official data.gov.il companies registrar (Rasham HaChavarot / רשם החברות — the Israeli government's open-data mirror of the companies register). Get back company name, legal type, current status (active / dissolved / in liquidation / etc.), registered address, and incorporation date. No login, no manual portal search, no API key.

What it does

This actor queries the government's own open-data CKAN API (data.gov.il/api/3/action/datastore_search) — a free, keyless, official public dataset, not a scrape of a locked page. Results are returned as clean JSON dataset items, one row per company, with a parse_confidence field for quality.

Use cases

• Verify an Israeli counterparty's registration status before signing a contract.
• Lead generation and market research — pull a filtered slice of active companies.
• Compliance / KYB checks — confirm a company number resolves to an active, non-dissolved entity.
• Feeding pipelines, dashboards, and AI agents with fresh structured company data.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
companyName	string	""	Free-text search across the Hebrew and English name fields (e.g. "eToro").
companyNumber	string	""	Exact Israeli company number (e.g. 515240497) — a unique lookup. Overrides the filters below.
activeOnly	boolean	true	Only return companies whose current status is exactly "active" (פעילה). Ignored when companyNumber is set.
city	string	""	Exact registered-address city filter, in Hebrew as the registry stores it (e.g. "תל אביב - יפו").
sortRecentFirst	boolean	true	Sort by company number descending — biases results toward recently-registered companies.
maxResults	integer	20	Cap on records returned (1–10,000).

A gotcha we already found (and fixed by default)

The registry's raw row order (its internal import/insertion order, not a registration-date index) surfaces very old records first when you query with no filter — some of them companies from the 1930s, long dissolved, with blank address fields. This is a sampling artifact of the dataset's default order, not a real data gap — the same dataset holds millions of fully-populated, currently-active companies (recognisable names like eToro Group Ltd, incorporated 2017, show up immediately once you ask correctly). The default input already applies both fixes:

1. activeOnly: true — filters to the exact "active" status.
2. sortRecentFirst: true — sorts by company number descending (company numbers are assigned sequentially at registration, so this is a reliable "newest first" proxy).

Together, the default sample returns real, well-populated, currently-active companies — never the old dissolved shells.

Output fields

Each record includes the company identity (number, Hebrew + English name, legal type), current status and sub-status, stated purpose, incorporation date, government-ownership flag, registered address (street, house number, city, ZIP, P.O. box, country), last annual-report year filed, and a parse_confidence score.

A note on the registered_care_of field: the registry sometimes carries a "c/o" (אצל) name at the registered address — a publicly-mandated disclosure of who holds the company's registered address, the same category of public officer/registered-agent disclosure this fleet already surfaces for the German commercial register (Handelsregister). It is not incidental personal data — it's what Israeli company law already requires be public.

Pricing

Pay-per-event (PPE): one charge per company record (company-record) delivered to the dataset. (No price has been set live yet — see the build report for the proposed figure.)

Data source

Data comes from Israel's official open-data portal, mirroring the government companies registrar — the same authoritative source used for legal/compliance lookups — so results are accurate and require no credentials or scraping of a locked portal.