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Responsible Innovation: Israel's Policy on Artificial Intelligence Regulation and Ethics

עקרונות, מדיניות, רגולציה ואתיקה בתחום הבינה המלאכותית 2023

Record IL-01

Issued by
Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, with the Ministry of Justice (Office of Legal Counsel and Legislative Affairs)
Jurisdiction
Israel
Level · region
National · Middle East & North Africa
Published / adopted
2023-12
Language
Hebrew

Summary

Israel's first government policy on AI regulation and ethics. It favours sector-specific, risk-based soft regulation and international interoperability, names seven challenges (discrimination, human oversight, explainability, disclosure of AI interactions, safety, accountability, privacy), adopts OECD-based ethical principles, and recommends an AI Policy Coordination Center and responsible-AI tools such as a risk-management framework.

Language

English translation by Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology (an English summary of the policy, mainly of its recommendations chapter) Open it. The Hebrew text is authoritative.

Safety topics

risk-based classificationhuman oversighttransparency & labellingaccountability & liabilityinternational cooperation

Status notes

Published in December 2023 by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, prepared with the Ministry of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel and Legislative Affairs (Economic Law Department) under Government Resolution 212 of 1 August 2021; a White Paper of 17 November 2022 was its first draft and the basis for public consultations. The policy was published in Hebrew; the ministry's English document summarises it, mainly its recommendations chapter. It gives guidelines and instructions to sectoral regulators on AI in the private sector across the AI lifecycle; the government's policy on public-sector AI is developed separately. The policy also anticipates future work on foundation models and frontier AI.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/policy/ai_2023/en/Israels%20AI%20Policy%202023.pdf

Local copy

Download failed. The official source could not be downloaded: HTTP 403 Forbidden. The browser retry also failed (Browser could not load the page: Page.goto: Timeout 45000ms exceeded.). Last attempt 2026-10-18 04:05:37 UTC

Verification

B
Another official source, such as an announcement by the issuer, confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · alternative-official-url-fetched
Recheck of 18 Oct 2026. gov.il refused every download of the English PDF (the record's official URL) and of the Hebrew policy document (HTTP 403 on 11, 16, 17 and 18 Oct 2026; the browser retry timed out). Stored instead: the OECD.AI policy-initiative entry, added and last updated (25 Dec 2025) by Israel's national contact point, and the 11-page English PDF it links, hosted on api.oecd.ai. That PDF is the ministry's English summary of the policy: it confirms the title, publication in December 2023 by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology with the Ministry of Justice, the seven challenges, the principles and the recommendations, and states that the policy was originally published in Hebrew. The OECD.AI entry confirms the ministries, the Hebrew name, start year 2023, status Active and that the policy is non-binding. Because the Hebrew full text could not be stored, the summary rests on the ministry's English summary and original_title on the OECD.AI entry; whether the OECD-hosted PDF is identical to the gov.il English PDF is not known. Later Israeli initiatives listed on the OECD.AI page (2024-2025) are not part of this policy and are passed on as leads.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 10 field(s) supported.

History

  1. 2026-10-18verification.level: A → B — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-18english_version: – → {"kind": "government translation", "url": "https://api.oecd.ai/storage//policy-i — recorded as a government translation: the issuing ministry's English summary, stored from the copy OECD.AI links (api.oecd.ai), because the gov.il copy refuses downloads; it is a summary, not a full translation, which 'by' says2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  3. 2026-10-18notes: Published Dec 2023 (exact day not stated in the PDF). Applies mainly to the priv → Published in December 2023 by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology — rewritten from the stored English summary: the ministries, Resolution 212, the 2022 White Paper, the Hebrew original and the English summary, the scope (private sector, sectoral regulators, whole lifecycle) and the planned work on foundation models; the sentence on later OECD.AI items 'not separately verified' was process language and those items now go to leads2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  4. 2026-10-18language: English, Hebrew → Hebrew — 'English, Hebrew' changed to 'Hebrew': the ministry's English document says the policy 'was originally published in Hebrew' and that the English document is a summary of it (page 3), so the official text is Hebrew only2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  5. 2026-10-18original_title: – → עקרונות, מדיניות, רגולציה ואתיקה בתחום הבינה המלאכותית 2023 — set from the OECD.AI entry's 'Name in original language' (entered by Israel's national contact point), as the Hebrew document itself could not be stored2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Citation

Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, with the Ministry of Justice (Office of Legal Counsel and Legislative Affairs). Responsible Innovation: Israel's Policy on Artificial Intelligence Regulation and Ethics. 2023-12. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/policy/ai_2023/en/Israels%20AI%20Policy%202023.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level B). Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record IL-01.

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