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Israel's Protection of Privacy Law and related regulations form a mature privacy regime with ongoing modernization pressure.
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medium confidence, Needs cleanup around modernization changes and database-law overlays.
Breach
- Breach deadline (hours)
- 0
- Breach notification required
- Yes
Marketing
- Cookie consent rule
- Cookie compliance is influenced by consent expectations, database law, and sector-specific communications practice.
Transfers
- Cross-border transfer restricted
- Yes
- Data localization required
- No
Governance
- DPO required
- No
- Impact assessment required
- No
- Records of processing required
- Yes
Identity
- Effective date
- 1981-02-23
- Effective status
- in-force
- Last amended
- 2025-08-14
- Law status
- active
Scope
- Extraterritorial application
- No
- Private sector coverage
- Applies to private database owners and holders subject to registration, security, and use-limitation obligations.
- Public sector coverage
- Public authorities are also subject to the law and security regulations for databases.
- Territorial scope
- Applies to database owners, holders, and managers operating within Israel, with transfer and security obligations extending through regulations.
Legal Basis
- Legal bases
- consent, statutory authorization, legitimate operational basis under database rules
- Requires legal basis
- No
Enforcement
- Maximum fine
- Enforcement combines administrative oversight, criminal exposure, and civil claims depending on the violation.
- Private right of action
- Yes
Definitions
- Personal data definition
- Personal information covers data about a person’s private affairs, personality, intimate status, health, economic condition, and similar matters.
- Sensitive data recognized
- Yes
Rights
- Right of access
- Yes
- Right to appeal
- Yes
- Right to deletion
- Yes
- Right to object
- No
- Right to portability
- No
Official sources
- Protection of Privacy Law textPrimary official law • en • html
- Privacy Protection Authority guidanceSecondary official material • en • html