# Israel Companies Registrar — Status, Type & Address Lookup (`bovi/israel-companies-registrar`) Actor

Look up Israeli companies via the official data.gov.il companies registrar (Rasham HaChavarot). Returns company name, legal type, current status (active/dissolved/etc.), registered address, and incorporation date.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bovi/israel-companies-registrar.md
- **Developed by:** [Vitalii Bondarev](https://apify.com/bovi) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $7.42 / 1,000 company records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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Actors are written with capital "A".

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```bash
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```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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# Windows
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```bash

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# README

### 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.

# Actor input Schema

## `companyName` (type: `string`):

Free-text search across the Hebrew and English company-name fields (e.g. 'eToro' or a Hebrew name). Leave blank to browse a filtered list instead (see activeOnly / city).
## `companyNumber` (type: `string`):

Exact Israeli company registration number (e.g. 515240497). When set, this overrides companyName/activeOnly/city — it's a unique lookup.
## `activeOnly` (type: `boolean`):

If true, only return companies whose current status is exactly 'active' (recommended — the registry's default row order otherwise surfaces very old, often-dissolved records first). Ignored when companyNumber is set.
## `city` (type: `string`):

Exact registered-address city filter, in Hebrew as it appears in the registry (e.g. 'תל אביב - יפו'). Leave blank for no city filter.
## `sortRecentFirst` (type: `boolean`):

If true, sort by company number descending, which reliably surfaces recently-registered, well-populated companies first. Recommended for browsing without a specific company in mind.
## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of company records to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companyName": "",
  "companyNumber": "",
  "activeOnly": true,
  "city": "",
  "sortRecentFirst": true,
  "maxResults": 20
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing Israel Companies Registrar records (company\_number, company\_name, company\_name\_en, company\_type, status, address, city, incorporation\_date, parse\_confidence).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bovi/israel-companies-registrar").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bovi/israel-companies-registrar").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call bovi/israel-companies-registrar --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=bovi/israel-companies-registrar",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Israel Companies Registrar — Status, Type & Address Lookup",
        "description": "Look up Israeli companies via the official data.gov.il companies registrar (Rasham HaChavarot). Returns company name, legal type, current status (active/dissolved/etc.), registered address, and incorporation date.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "eYcKJy7j1NatmntIC"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/bovi~israel-companies-registrar/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
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                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
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                "tags": [
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                "parameters": [
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                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/bovi~israel-companies-registrar/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-bovi-israel-companies-registrar",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
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                        }
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                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
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                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
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                                }
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            }
        },
        "/acts/bovi~israel-companies-registrar/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-bovi-israel-companies-registrar",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "companyName": {
                        "title": "Company name",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Free-text search across the Hebrew and English company-name fields (e.g. 'eToro' or a Hebrew name). Leave blank to browse a filtered list instead (see activeOnly / city).",
                        "default": ""
                    },
                    "companyNumber": {
                        "title": "Company number (exact)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Exact Israeli company registration number (e.g. 515240497). When set, this overrides companyName/activeOnly/city — it's a unique lookup.",
                        "default": ""
                    },
                    "activeOnly": {
                        "title": "Active companies only",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "If true, only return companies whose current status is exactly 'active' (recommended — the registry's default row order otherwise surfaces very old, often-dissolved records first). Ignored when companyNumber is set.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "city": {
                        "title": "City filter (Hebrew name, optional)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Exact registered-address city filter, in Hebrew as it appears in the registry (e.g. 'תל אביב - יפו'). Leave blank for no city filter.",
                        "default": ""
                    },
                    "sortRecentFirst": {
                        "title": "Sort most-recently-registered first",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "If true, sort by company number descending, which reliably surfaces recently-registered, well-populated companies first. Recommended for browsing without a specific company in mind.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "maxResults": {
                        "title": "Max results",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 10000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of company records to return.",
                        "default": 20
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
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                            },
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                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
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                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    "DATASET_READS": {
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                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "example": 0
                                    }
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                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```