Population Registry Law, 5725-1965

A person who possesses his or her own identity card after an unlawful alteration, amendment, addition, or deletion has been made therein, and who has not proven that the possession was in good faith, is liable to imprisonment of six months.

In section 2 of the Criminal Law Amendment (Offences Abroad) Law, 5716-1955, after paragraph (8) the following shall be inserted:

"(9) an offence under the Population Registry Law, 5725-1965.".

The Minister of the Interior may make Regulations regarding the renewal of registrations in the Registry, in the births register, or in the deaths register that have been lost or destroyed; for the purpose of such renewal, every interested party shall, insofar as possible, be given an opportunity to state his or her case.

The Minister of the Interior may, by Order, authorise a particular local authority to perform a function pursuant to this Law.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 12, with regard to the death of an abductee as defined in the Allowances to Family Members of Abductees and Missing Persons in a Hostile Action Law, 5784-2023, who is registered in the Registry and whose death occurred outside Israel, the provisions pursuant to this Law applicable in respect of a person whose death occurred in Israel shall apply, including the provisions of sections 7 and 30(b), with the necessary modifications.

Registration pursuant to this Law does not affect the laws of prohibition and permission in matters of marriage and divorce.

The Minister of the Interior may exempt categories of persons from compliance with all or some of the provisions of this Law, to the extent that this appears to the Minister to be necessary for the purpose of implementing international conventions to which Israel is a party.

In the Public Health Ordinance, 1940 –

"Notification of the birth of a stillborn infant

4. (1) Where an infant was delivered stillborn from its mother's womb after the completion of the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy (hereinafter – stillborn infant), the father or the mother, and if they do not fulfil this obligation, the midwife or the person who attended to the mother at the time of the birth or within six hours thereafter, are required to give notification of the birth of the stillborn infant; the notification shall be given within 15 days from the day of the birth to the district health office, and if there is no district health office in the locality – to a physician authorised by the Administrator for that purpose.

"(d) a burial licence shall not be issued unless there has been submitted to the district health office or to a physician authorised pursuant to paragraph (b)(2), as the case may be, or to a registration officer as referred to in the Population Registry Law, 5725-1965 – a death notification in accordance with that Law in which, among the other particulars, the cause of death as determined by a physician and certified by the physician's signature has been specified; where the cause of death has not been determined by a physician, a physician of the district health office or a physician authorised pursuant to paragraph (b)(2), as the case may be, may determine the cause of death to the best of his or her knowledge and belief and certify it by signature.".

The Residents Registry Ordinance, 5709-1949 – is repealed.

In identity cards issued during the six months from the day of commencement of this Law, but no later than the day of commencement of the Regulations pursuant to section 25, the particulars that were customarily recorded in identity cards on the eve of the commencement of this Law shall be recorded.

The Minister of the Interior shall prescribe by Regulations the procedure for the registration of Israeli citizens who, on the date of commencement of this Law, were not registered under the Residents Registry Ordinance, 5709-1949.

This Law shall commence one year from the date of its publication in Reshumot (Official Gazette).