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Teudat Zehut and Passport on one session, screened against NBCTF and Ministry of Finance sanctions — $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.

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Country brief

How identity verification works in Israel.

The fraud surface and the frameworks an engineering or compliance lead needs before scoping an integration.
Fraud landscape
Three pressures shape Israeli identity fraud: deepfake and synthetic-Teudat-Zehut attacks targeting the Bank of Israel's licensed payment-service providers and Israel Securities Authority-registered crypto custodians, Teudat Zehut and Driving Licence template forgery across the legacy and biometric formats, and AML pressure on cross-border stablecoin and remittance corridors under NBCTF and Ministry of Finance terror-financing designations. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session — face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
Compliance frameworks
  • Prohibition on Money Laundering Law 5760-2000
  • Privacy Protection Law 5741-1981 (Amendment 13, 2024)
  • Payment Services Law 5779-2019
  • Financial Service Providers Law (crypto supervision)
  • IMPA orders on financial institutions and DNFBPs
  • FATF 40 recommendations
Regulators

Who supervises identity verification in Israel.

These are the supervisors a Israel verification flow has to answer to. One Didit hosted flow + one audit log covers every one of them — no separate integration per agency.
  • BoI

    Bank of Israel — central bank and prudential supervisor for banks, credit-card companies, payment service providers, and the licensed-payment-service regime under the Payment Services Law 5779-2019.

  • ISA

    Israel Securities Authority — securities supervisor. Licenses crypto custodians and digital-asset service providers under the Financial Service Providers Law.

  • IMPA

    Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority — Israel's Financial Intelligence Unit. Receives Suspicious Activity Reports under the Prohibition on Money Laundering Law 5760-2000.

  • PPA

    Privacy Protection Authority — enforces the Privacy Protection Law 5741-1981 and its 2024 Amendment 13 reform. Governs every identity verification on Israeli residents.

  • PIBA

    Population and Immigration Authority (Rashut HaOchlosin, Ministry of the Interior) — issuer of the Teudat Zehut and the Israeli passport. Maintains the authoritative population register.

Verification flow · One API

Four modules. One verification.

ID, biometric, AML, and a Israel database cross-check — composed on one workflow, billed per success, returned in one report.
01 · ID

Capture and read the ID.

Captured on any phone — auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.

  • Teudat Zehut (legacy + biometric), Passport (with the chip read on e-Passports), Driving Licence, and the foreign-resident A-5 / Teudat Ma'avar.
  • Returns the name, 9-digit citizen identity number, date of birth, sex, and expiry.
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Stage 01Capture and read the ID
  • Teudat Zehut · Biometric Teudat Zehut
  • Passport — chip read on e-Passport
  • Driving Licence · Foreign-Resident ID
02 · Biometric

Match the face. Prove it's a real person..

Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.

  • Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
  • Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows — user turns or blinks.
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Stage 02Match the face. Prove it's a real person.
  • Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
  • Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
03 · AML

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.

1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists — plus Israeli watchlists:

  • National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) — Associations and Terrorist Organizations list.
  • National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) — Seizures list.
  • National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) — Declarations On Activists.
  • Ministry of Finance, Israel — Designated entities and individuals.
  • Israel Tax Authority (ILITA) — Special-Interest Persons list.
  • Knesset (Israeli Parliament) — Politically Exposed Persons register.
  • Cabinet of Israel — Politically Exposed Persons register.
  • Supreme Court of Israel — Politically Exposed Persons register.

Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.

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Stage 03Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media

Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media — see the docs for the full module surface.

04 · Registry

Cross-check the identity at scale.

On top of the OCR + biometric + AML stack, Didit pairs the captured Teudat Zehut and Passport with the global Database Validation surface — phone, email, address, and document-template checks across 50+ countries.

  • Israel does not currently expose a public government API for direct authoritative population-register lookups — the PIBA register is accessible only through Bank-of-Israel-supervised data-partner integrations on Enterprise. Talk to sales to wire that into your workflow.
  • For phone / email / address sanity checks, pair the session with the global Database Validation services that already work in Israel today.
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Stage 04Cross-check the identity at scale

Cross-check the identity at scale — see the docs for the full module surface.

Documents covered

Every Israel document Didit accepts.

One row per accepted credential — flag, document name, document type. Live from the Didit Business Console.
Authoritative datasets

Civil-registry and AML coverage for Israel.

One card per dataset Didit cross-checks against — civil registries on the Database Validation API plus the global AML watchlist pool. Each card links to the technical docs.
Compliant by design

Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.

We open the local subsidiaries, secure the licenses, run the penetration tests, earn the certifications, and align with every new regulation. To ship verifications in a new country, flip a toggle. 220+ countries live, audited and pen-tested every quarter — the only identity provider an EU member-state government has formally called safer than in-person verification.
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EU financial sandbox
Tesoro · SEPBLAC · BdE
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security · 2026
SOC 2 · Type I
AICPA · 2026
iBeta Level 1 PAD
NIST / NIAP · 2026
GDPR
EU 2016/679
DORA
EU 2022/2554
MiCA
EU 2023/1114
AMLD6 · eIDAS 2.0
EU-aligned by design
FAQ

Common questions about Israel.

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