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National Infrastructure Promotion Law, 5783-2023

חוק לקידום תשתיות לאומיות, תשפ"ג-2023

Published: 2023-06-06Consolidated Hebrew text as of 2026-08-03 · Last amended 2026-07-28✓ Amendment status checked against the Knesset legislation record on 2026-09-28
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Chapter I: Purpose and Definitions

Purpose§

1.

The purpose of this Law is to set out provisions for the promotion of infrastructure projects, inter alia by means of —

(1)regulating the process of registration and mapping of infrastructure lines;
(2)setting out provisions with respect to the prioritisation of essential infrastructure projects and preferred essential infrastructure projects;
(3)removing barriers to the promotion of infrastructure projects, including regulatory barriers, at the stages of planning, construction, operation and maintenance of such projects.

Definitions§

2.

In this Law —

"action approval" means any of the following:

(1)a licence, permit, or any other approval required under law from a competent authority for the purpose of performing an action, including a licence, permit or approval as aforesaid granted in respect of an instrument;
(2)an exemption from a licence, permit or approval as referred to in paragraph (1), or an exemption from performing an action, granted to a person, under law, by a competent authority;

"implementing body" means a body responsible for initiating and promoting the implementation of an infrastructure project by virtue of law, by virtue of a concession, licence or permit granted under law, by virtue of a Government decision, or by virtue of an agreement with a public body;

"public body" means any of the following bodies:

(1)the Government and Government ministries, including their units and their auxiliary units;
(2)a local authority;
(3)a corporation established under law;
(4)a corporation that is under the ownership or control of the Government or of a local authority, including a government subsidiary company as defined in the Government Companies Law, 5735-1975, or a municipal company as defined in section 21 of the Budget Foundations Law, 5745-1985;

"infrastructure body" means a body that operates or holds an infrastructure line;

"competent authority" means a public body or infrastructure body from which an implementing body is required under law to obtain an action approval for the purpose of promoting an infrastructure project;

"Objections Committee" means the committee established under section 33;

"hazardous substance" has the meaning assigned to it in the Hazardous Substances Law, 5753-1993;

"Abatement of Nuisances Law" means the Abatement of Nuisances Law, 5721-1961;

"Electricity Sector Law" means the Electricity Sector Law, 5756-1996;

"Antiquities Law" means the Antiquities Law, 5738-1978;

"Business Licensing Law" means the Business Licensing Law, 5728-1968;

"Planning and Building Law" means the Planning and Building Law, 5725-1965;

"Telecommunications Law" means the Telecommunications Law (Bezeq and Broadcasting), 5742-1982;

"examination trench", "examination excavation" and "rescue excavation" have the meanings assigned to them under the Antiquities Law;

"commencement day" means the day on which this Law commences;

"Mapping Repository" means the data repository in the field of national infrastructure established pursuant to a Government decision and the details of which were published in Reshumot (Official Gazette) under section 5(e);

"infrastructure project" means a project for the construction, operation or maintenance of national infrastructure;

"essential infrastructure project" means a project listed in the list of essential infrastructure projects published in Reshumot (Official Gazette) under section 31;

"preferred essential infrastructure project" means a project listed in the list of preferred essential infrastructure projects published in Reshumot (Official Gazette) under section 42;

"infrastructure mapping" means a map that describes in detail the location of an infrastructure line, prepared in accordance with the mapping specification;

"renewable energy installation" means an electricity installation as defined in the Electricity Sector Law or a power station, used for the production of renewable energy, or a renewable energy storage installation; for the purposes of this definition —

"renewable energy" means energy derived from the utilisation of solar radiation, wind, water, waste or biomass, or from the utilisation of another energy source that is not fossil fuel or nuclear fuel;

"biomass" means a mass of non-fossilised organic matter;

"fossil fuel" means fuel formed from the fossilisation of organic matter in an oxygen-deficient environment;

"infrastructure line tunnel" means an underground tunnel through which at least two infrastructure lines pass, which are not part of the same infrastructure line network and do not belong to the same type of infrastructure listed in Column B of the Schedule;

"mapping specification" means the national mapping specification published by the Survey of Israel on its website, as updated from time to time;

"soil survey" means a survey to examine soil type required for the purpose of planning and implementing works to promote an infrastructure project, excluding a soil survey for the purpose of locating or preventing soil contamination, or for the purpose of discovering petroleum as defined in the Petroleum Law, 5712-1952, or minerals or quarrying material as defined in the Mines Ordinance;

"probing works" means works for discovering the location of an infrastructure line;

"infrastructure line works" means works related to an infrastructure line, including construction, development, relocation, maintenance, removal or an action for decommissioning an infrastructure line;

"Public Health Ordinance" means the Public Health Ordinance, 1940;

"infrastructure line" means an above-ground or underground line, or a line laid on the ground, used for the conveyance, distribution, supply or transfer of electricity, a bezeq message as defined in the Telecommunications Law, water, sewage, crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas or a hazardous substance, as well as ancillary installations directly required for the operation of such a line;

"examination square" means a square with an area of 25 square metres marked for the purpose of performing an examination trench, examination excavation or rescue excavation;

"Antiquities Authority" has the meaning assigned to it in the Antiquities Authority Law, 5749-1989;

"control" has the meaning assigned to it in the Securities Law, 5728-1968;

"approved plan" means a plan approved pursuant to the provisions of the Planning and Building Law;

"power station" has the meaning assigned to it in the Electricity Sector Law;

"infrastructure coordination" means a coordination procedure carried out between an implementing body and an infrastructure body in the framework of promoting an infrastructure project for the purpose of examining the location of an infrastructure line, planning and implementing the relocation of an infrastructure line or another action related to it, including coordination as aforesaid under a plan or permit by virtue of the Planning and Building Law;

"national infrastructure" means all of the following:

(1)a road as defined in the Planning and Building Law;
(2)a railway as defined in the Railways Ordinance [New Version], 5732-1972;
(3)a transport installation as defined in the Traffic Ordinance [New Version], including operational parking and a day or night car park for a service line as defined in that Ordinance;
(4)a seaport declared or to be declared pursuant to the provisions of section 2 of the Ports Ordinance [New Version], 5731-1971, an aerodrome to be designated pursuant to the provisions of section 30 of the Aviation Law, 5771-2011, or an aerodrome listed in the Schedule to the Airports Authority Law, 5737-1977;
(5)a seawater desalination installation, as well as a water installation;
(6)a power station, a renewable energy production installation, an electricity switching installation, an electricity transformation installation, or an energy storage installation as defined in the Planning and Building Law;
(7)a bezeq network as defined in the Telecommunications Law;
(8)an installation for the refining, production, conveyance, distribution, supply, transfer or storage of, or treatment of, electricity, water, sewage, crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas or a hazardous substance, as well as an infrastructure line tunnel;
(9)an infrastructure line;
(10)an installation for the sorting, disposal, treatment or energy recovery of waste, or an installation for the treatment of sewage.

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Chapter II: Prioritisation of Infrastructure Projects

Priority in Responding to Requests Relating to Essential Infrastructure Projects and Preferred Essential Infrastructure Projects§

3.

Notwithstanding anything provided in any law, a competent authority or infrastructure body shall give priority to the handling of a request by an implementing body for an action approval or any other approach by such a body (in this section — a request or approach by an implementing body), related to the promotion of an essential infrastructure project, and shall give priority to the handling of a request or approach by an implementing body related to the promotion of a preferred essential infrastructure project, over the handling of a request or approach by an implementing body related to the promotion of an essential infrastructure project.

Appointment of a Coordinating Authority at the Competent Authority§

4.
(a)A competent authority shall appoint, in respect of each preferred essential infrastructure project, an employee of the competent authority who shall be responsible for coordinating the handling of every matter relating to that project, including responding to approaches by the implementing body responsible for the project (in this section — coordinating authority); a competent authority may appoint under this subsection a coordinating authority who shall be responsible for more than one preferred essential infrastructure project.
(b)A competent authority shall appoint an employee of the competent authority who shall be responsible for coordinating the handling of every matter relating to projects for the construction, operation or maintenance of renewable energy installations, including responding to approaches by the implementing body responsible for such a project.

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Chapter III: Infrastructure Mapping

The Mapping Repository and Transfer of Infrastructure Mapping to the Mapping Repository§

5.
(a)Where infrastructure line works have been performed, the following provisions shall apply, as the case may be:
(1)where the works were performed by the infrastructure body holding the infrastructure line — the infrastructure body shall carry out infrastructure mapping and transfer it to the Mapping Repository within 60 days of the date of completion of the infrastructure line works;
(2)where the works were performed by an implementing body, in the framework of an infrastructure project, the following provisions shall apply:
(a)the implementing body shall carry out infrastructure mapping and transfer it to the infrastructure body holding the infrastructure line in respect of which the works were performed, as soon as possible and no later than 30 days from the date of completion of the infrastructure line works;
(b)the infrastructure body that received the infrastructure mapping under sub-paragraph (a) shall transfer the mapping to the Mapping Repository, with or without changes, within 60 days; the implementing body shall leave the infrastructure line visible to the eye for 14 days from the date of transfer of the infrastructure mapping to the infrastructure body, in order to enable the infrastructure body to examine the mapping and make changes thereto;
(c)an infrastructure body that has transferred the infrastructure mapping to the Mapping Repository under sub-paragraph (b) shall be deemed to have carried out the infrastructure mapping itself.
(b)Where probing works have been performed, the following provisions shall apply, as the case may be, in respect of the infrastructure line in relation to which the probing works were performed:
(1)where the probing works were performed by the infrastructure body — the infrastructure body shall carry out infrastructure mapping in respect of the infrastructure line whose location was discovered, and shall transfer it to the Mapping Repository within 21 days of the date of completion of the probing works; if no infrastructure line was discovered in the course of the probing works — the infrastructure body shall notify the Mapping Repository, within seven days of the date of completion of the works, that no infrastructure line was found in the area in which the probing works were performed;
(2)where the probing works were performed by an implementing body that is not the infrastructure body in respect of that infrastructure line, the following provisions shall apply:
(a)the implementing body shall carry out infrastructure mapping in respect of the infrastructure line whose location was discovered and shall transfer it to the infrastructure body, as soon as possible and no later than 14 days from the date of completion of the probing works; if no infrastructure line was discovered in the course of the probing works — the implementing body shall notify the infrastructure body that no infrastructure line was found in the area in which the probing works were performed;
(b)the infrastructure body that received, under sub-paragraph (a), the infrastructure mapping or a notification that no infrastructure line was found, shall transfer the mapping or the notification, as the case may be, to the Mapping Repository, with or without changes, within 14 days;
(c)an infrastructure body that has transferred to the Mapping Repository, under sub-paragraph (b), the infrastructure mapping or a notification that no infrastructure line was found, shall be deemed to have carried out the infrastructure mapping or made the notification, as the case may be, itself.
(c)The Minister of Finance may prescribe provisions with respect to the designation of an area in the Mapping Repository as an area in which the mapping of infrastructure has been completed, including with respect to the conditions and procedure for designating such an area.
(d)The Minister of Finance, after consulting the Minister of Construction and Housing, the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure and the Minister of Communications, may make Regulations concerning the methods of management of the Mapping Repository, the preservation of information therein and the manner of transfer of information therefrom.
(e)The Minister of Finance shall publish in Reshumot (Official Gazette), on the website of the Ministry of Finance and on the "e-Government" website the details of the data repository in the field of national infrastructure that shall serve as the repository to which information shall be transferred under this Chapter.

Transfer of Additional Information to the Mapping Repository§

6.
(a)An implementing body that has performed works for the construction of an underground tunnel, an infrastructure line tunnel or a drainage tunnel shall transfer to the Mapping Repository, within 60 days of the completion of the works, a detailed mapping of the location of that tunnel, prepared in accordance with the mapping specification; for this purpose, "underground tunnel" means a tunnel passing, wholly or in part, beneath the surface of the ground, through which a road or railway as defined in paragraph (1) or (2) of the definition of "national infrastructure" passes.
(b)An implementing body that has performed a soil survey shall transfer the findings of the survey to the Mapping Repository as soon as possible and no later than seven days from the date of completion of the survey; the results of the survey shall be prepared in a format in accordance with a specification published by the Minister of Construction and Housing on the website of the Ministry of Construction and Housing, if published.
(c)The bodies listed below shall transfer information to the Mapping Repository in accordance with the following provisions:
(1)a public body or infrastructure body shall transfer to the Mapping Repository the findings of a soil survey conducted in the framework of an infrastructure project that are in its possession, within 30 days of the date they came into its possession, unless that survey has been transferred to the Mapping Repository under the provisions of subsection (b);
(2)where the Antiquities Authority has performed an examination trench or examination excavation, it shall transfer to the Mapping Repository a mapping that includes the area of the examination squares in which the trench or excavation was performed and that indicates the findings of the trench or excavation in each such square, within 30 days of the date of completion of the trench or excavation;
(3)where the Ministry of Health has approved the performance of a drilling pursuant to the Public Health Ordinance, it shall transfer to the Mapping Repository a map detailing the boundaries of the protection zones around the drilling, under that Ordinance, within 30 days of the date of granting the approval; for this purpose, "protection zone" has the meaning assigned to it in the Regulations made under the Public Health Ordinance;
(4)the Ministry of Defence shall transfer to the Mapping Repository, at least once per quarter, a mapping detailing the boundaries of areas in which construction above a height to be specified may constitute a risk for security or safety reasons relating to the Israel Defence Forces or another arm of the defence establishment.
(d)The transfer of information to the Mapping Repository under subsections (b) and (c)(1) and (3) shall not be construed as attributing to the body that transferred the information responsibility for the content of the information.

Transfer to the Mapping Repository of Information Accumulated before the Commencement Day – Transitional Provision§

7.
(a)In addition to the provisions of sections 5 and 6, within 120 days of the commencement day, the bodies listed below shall transfer information to the Mapping Repository in accordance with the following provisions:
(1)an infrastructure body shall transfer to the Mapping Repository the up-to-date mapping in its possession on the commencement day, in respect of the infrastructure lines held by it;
(2)the Israel Land Authority, the Water and Sewerage Authority as defined in the Water Law, 5719-1959, and the Ministry of Construction and Housing shall transfer to the Mapping Repository the findings of a soil survey in their possession on the commencement day;
(3)an implementing body shall transfer to the Mapping Repository —
(a)up-to-date mapping in its possession on the commencement day, with respect to the location of an underground tunnel as defined in section 6(a) or an infrastructure line tunnel;
(b)findings of a soil survey conducted in the framework of an infrastructure project that are in its possession on the commencement day;
(4)the Antiquities Authority shall transfer to the Mapping Repository a mapping that includes the examination squares in which an examination trench or examination excavation was performed before the commencement day and that indicates the findings of the trench or excavation in each such square;
(5)the Ministry of Health shall transfer to the Mapping Repository a map detailing the current boundaries of the protection zones as defined in section 6(c)(3) around a drilling approved by the Ministry pursuant to the Public Health Ordinance before the commencement day.
(b)The transfer of information to the Mapping Repository under subsection (a)(1) to (3) and (5) shall not be construed as attributing to the body that transferred the information responsibility for the content of the information.
(c)The Ministry of Defence shall transfer information as referred to in section 6(c)(4) for the first time within four months of the commencement of the Economic Plan Law (Legislative Amendments for the Implementation of the Economic Policy for the Budget Year 2026), 5786-2026.

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