Population Registry Law, 5725-1965

"Digital Communication with Public Bodies Law" – Digital Communication with Public Bodies Law, 5778-2018;

"day according to the Hebrew calendar" – a period beginning twenty minutes after sunset and ending at the close of twenty minutes after sunset on the following day;

"digital address" – any of the following:

"binding order" – an Order determined pursuant to section 20 of the Approach to Public Bodies by Digital Communication Means Law (Amendment No. 2 and Temporary Provision), 5782-2022;

"date of birth" – the day of birth both according to the Hebrew calendar and according to the Gregorian calendar;

"date of death" – the day of death both according to the Hebrew calendar and according to the Gregorian calendar;

"resident" – a person present in Israel as an Israeli citizen or by virtue of an immigrant visa or immigrant certificate, or by virtue of a permanent residence permit.

A registration in the Registry, any copy or extract therefrom, and any certificate issued pursuant to this Law shall be prima facie evidence of the correctness of the particulars of registration specified in paragraphs (1) to (4) and (9) to (13) of section 2.

The Minister of the Interior shall appoint a Chief Registration Officer and registration officers for the maintenance of the Registry in accordance with the provisions of this Law.

Every resident is required to submit to a registration officer, within thirty days of the date of first entry into Israel, or if the person became a resident after entry into Israel – from the date of becoming a resident, a notice of the registration particulars relating to that resident pursuant to section 2; and if the person entered or became a resident while having in their charge a minor or an adult who is incapable of fulfilling the obligation under this section, they shall also submit a notice of the registration particulars of such minor or adult.

"proficiency check in respect of a warning message" – a proficiency check for the purpose of providing a digital address of the mobile telephone type for the purpose of a warning message;

"Administrator" – as defined in section 29a(j);

"warning message" – as defined in section 3a of the Digital Communication with Public Bodies Law.

"midwife" – a person licensed to practise midwifery pursuant to the Midwives Ordinance;

"qualified physician" – a physician who holds a specialist's title in obstetrics and gynaecology granted pursuant to the Medical Practitioners Ordinance [New Version], 5737-1976, or a qualified physician specialising, for the purpose of obtaining that title, in a recognised medical institution under the supervision of a physician holding the said title.

A notice of death in Israel shall be submitted within 48 hours to the person authorised to issue a burial licence pursuant to the Public Health Ordinance, 1940, and if no burial licence is required – to a registration officer; the notice shall be submitted by the person in charge of the institution in which the death occurred, by the physician who certified the death, and in the absence of a physician – by any person who was present at the time of death; the notice shall include the registration particulars of the deceased and such other particulars as shall be prescribed by Regulations, with the approval of the Interior Committee of the Knesset.

"Institution", for the purposes of sections 6 and 7 – includes a hospital, a prison, a public or religious institution, a charitable institution, a hostel as defined in the Hostels Supervision Law, 5725-1965, and a hotel; and public vehicles, vessels or aircraft shall be treated as an institution.

Where an infant is found abandoned, any person into whose possession the infant comes first is required to submit to a registration officer, within ten days, a notice of the registration particulars of the infant known to that person and any information in that person's possession regarding the birth of the infant.

Where the police receive a report of the discovery of a corpse pursuant to section 21 of the Criminal Procedure Amendment Law (Investigation of Crimes and Causes of Death), 5718-1958, they shall submit to a registration officer any information in their possession regarding the registration particulars of the deceased.

A resident to whom a child is born abroad is required to submit to a registration officer within thirty days a notice of the registration particulars of the child.

Where a resident dies abroad, the spouse, children and parents of the deceased who are residents are required to submit a notice thereof to a registration officer within thirty days from the date on which the death became known to them.

A resident who has adopted a child abroad is required to submit to a registration officer within thirty days a notice of the registration particulars of the child and to furnish the registration officer with the documentation of the adoption; and the same shall apply if an adoption of a child abroad has been revoked.

An adult resident leaving the country in order to emigrate abroad shall notify the registration officer accordingly; the notice shall also include the minor children departing with that resident.

In respect of the acts enumerated below, the relevant authority shall submit to a registration officer, within 14 days of the date of the act, a copy of the document evidencing such act, together with the particulars to be specified in the Regulations required for the identification of the person concerned; and these are the acts:

Where a court or a religious tribunal has given a decision declaring a change in the registration particulars of a person or a decision that effects such a change, the court or the religious tribunal shall submit a copy of its decision to the Chief Registration Officer; the same shall be done with a copy of an adoption order, a certificate of divorce and a declaration of death.

Where a change other than as referred to in sections 5a, 15 and 16 occurs in the registration particulars of a resident, the resident is required to submit to a registration officer a notice of the change within thirty days; and if a minor or an adult who is incapable of fulfilling the obligation under this section is in the resident's charge – the resident shall also submit a notice of any change in the registration particulars of such minor or adult.