Development Co‑operation Profiles: Israel
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Israel launched its official international development co-operation programme in 1958 to share its expertise and technologies with developing countries. Israel’s development co-operation is mainly delivered bilaterally, but also includes multilateral projects. Israel’s official development assistance (ODA) is allocated through bilateral, trilateral and multilateral channels, with a focus on capacity building and humanitarian assistance worldwide. Israel’s total official development assistance (ODA) (USD 308.8 million, preliminary data) decreased in 2025, representing 0.05% of gross national income (GNI).
This profile presents verified data on Israel’s development assistance allocations. See the Development Co-operation Profiles.
Israel’s development co-operation is mainly delivered through bilateral channels through its Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV). The country prioritises technical capacity building and sharing of know-how and expertise, as well as tailor-made programmes with developing countries around the world. Israel’s development co-operation focuses on priority sectors such as agriculture, water, health, innovation, education, community resilience and promoting gender equality. Israel also has years of experience in triangular co-operation in a variety of sectors, including agriculture and education.
Additionally, Israel participates in multilateral development efforts, such as with the World Bank and the United Nations (UN) system, and has development partnerships with non-governmental organisations.
Israel provided USD 308.8 million (preliminary data) of ODA in 2025 (USD 283.4 million in constant terms), representing 0.05% of GNI.1 This was a decrease of 9.9% in real terms in volume and a decrease in the share of GNI from 2024. Israel is not in line with international commitments to achieve a 0.7% ODA/GNI ratio. Total ODA on a grant-equivalent basis has the same value as net ODA under the cash‑flow methodology used in the past, as Israel provides only grants.
Israel channels the majority of its ODA bilaterally, with allocations concentrated in the Middle East. In 2024, Israel allocated 27.1% of its bilateral ODA to core poverty-reducing sectors as defined by SDG 1.a.1.
Notes: This table only includes information about ODA data-related DAC recommendations. ODA: official development assistance; GNI: gross national income; DAC: Development Assistance Committee.
Israel provided by far the largest share of its ODA bilaterally in 2024. Gross bilateral ODA was 90.1% of total ODA disbursements.
In 2024, Israel provided USD 31.2 million of gross ODA to the multilateral system, a fall of 29.6% in real terms from 2023. Of this, USD 31.2 million was core multilateral ODA (9.9% of total ODA), while USD 0 million was non-core contributions earmarked for a specific country, region, theme or purpose.
The UN system received 69.6% of Israel’s contributions to multilateral organisations. Out of a total volume of USD 21.7 million to the UN system, the top three UN recipients of Israel’s support (core and earmarked contributions) were UN Core Contributions (USD 11.8 million), the International Labour Organization (USD 5.4 million) and World Health Organization (USD 2.4 million).
See the section on Geographic, sectoral and thematic focus of ODA for the breakdown of bilateral allocations, including ODA earmarked through the multilateral development system.
In 2024, Israel’s bilateral spending declined compared to the previous year. It provided USD 283.4 million of gross bilateral ODA (which includes earmarked contributions to multilateral organisations). This represented a decrease of 36% in real terms from 2023.
In 2024, country programmable aid amounted to USD 91 million, or 32.1% of Israel’s gross bilateral ODA. Israel’s in-donor refugee costs amounted to USD 105.7 million (37.3% of gross bilateral ODA) in 2024, while humanitarian aid was USD 800 thousand, or 0.3% of gross bilateral ODA.
In 2024, Israel channelled its bilateral ODA mainly through public sector, universities and research institutes or think tanks.
In 2024, Israel’s bilateral ODA primarily focused on the Middle East. USD 69.1 million was allocated to the Middle East and USD 49 million to Asia (excluding the Middle East), accounting respectively for 24.4% and 17.3% of gross bilateral ODA. USD 12.2 million was allocated to Latin America and the Caribbean.
In 2024, 46.5% of gross bilateral ODA went to Israel’s top 10 recipients. Its top 10 recipients are in the Middle East, Europe, South and East Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The share of gross bilateral ODA not allocated by country was 48.3%, of which 77.2% consisted of expenditures for processing and hosting refugees in provider countries.
In 2024, Israel allocated the highest share of gross bilateral ODA (26.1%) to upper middle-income countries in 2024, noting that 48.3% was unallocated by income group. LDCs received 0.9% of Israel’s gross bilateral ODA (USD 2.5 million). Additionally, Israel allocated 2.8% of gross bilateral ODA to land‑locked developing countries in 2024, equal to USD 7.8 million.
The distribution of Israel’s ODA in net terms in relation to “ODA per person in extreme poverty”2 was USD 0.1 in lower middle-income countries and USD 0.5 in upper middle-income countries.
In 2025, Israel provided USD 0 million of net bilateral ODA to Ukraine to respond to the impacts of the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion, a 100% decrease from 2024 in real terms.
Support to contexts with high and extreme fragility was USD 44.3 million in 2024, representing 15.6% of Israel’s gross bilateral ODA.
In 2024, more than half of Israel’s bilateral ODA was allocated to social infrastructure and services. Investments in this area accounted for 50.8% of bilateral ODA commitments (USD 144 million), with a strong focus on support to water supply and sanitation (USD 64.6 million), education (USD 62.8 million) and health and population (USD 12.2 million). ODA for other sectors totalled USD 114.6 million, with a focus on refugees in donor countries (USD 105.7 million). Multi-sector amounted to USD 22.9 million (8.1% of bilateral ODA). Earmarked contributions to multilateral organisations also focused on social sectors and economic sectors in 2024.
In 2024, Israel:
Allocated 27.1% of its bilateral ODA (USD 76.8 million) to core poverty-reducing sectors as defined by SDG 1.a.1. This indicator captures grants to basic social services (such as basic health and education, water supply and sanitation, multisector aid for basic social services) and development food aid. Learn more by exploring the Reducing poverty and inequalities through ODA data explainer.
Committed USD 1.1 million (0.7% of its bilateral allocable ODA) to promote aid for trade and improve developing countries’ trade performance and integration into the world economy in 2024. Learn more by exploring the Aid for Trade dashboard.
Total official support for sustainable development (TOSSD) is an international statistical standard that monitors and increases the transparency of all official and officially supported resources for financing the SDGs received by developing countries (Pillar 1) and for addressing global challenges (Pillar 2). In 2024, activities reported by Israel as TOSSD totalled USD 318 million, marking a 39% decrease compared with the previous year. Israel’s TOSSD activities mostly targeted SDG 2 (zero hunger), SDG 4 (quality education) and SDG 17 (partnerships for the Goals). Activity-level data on TOSSD by recipient are available at: https://tossd.online.
MASHAV was established in 1958 as a division within the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. MASHAV, which grew throughout the decades, is responsible for the design, implementation and co‑ordination of Israel’s development co-operation. Since 1994, MASHAV has used a regulated system of external professional assessment to review the accumulated impact of its capacity-building activities, as well as other aspects of its active engagement in sustainable development. Israel also disburses its ODA through other ministries, government agencies and public universities.
Access the full list of development co-operation providers at: Development Co-operation Profiles.
Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV): https://mashav.mfa.gov.il
MASHAV Annual Activity Report 2025: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-0FjgtRd2ATjz_6_1J1e6RnowQpnK1Pc/view
MASHAV Overview of Mission and Activities: https://mashav.mfa.gov.il/sites/default/files/2025-11/MASHAV%20Profile_EN%20%28digital%29.pdf
Israel became a member of the OECD in 2010 but is not a member of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC).
Israel has been reporting to the OECD since 1997 at the aggregate level and at the activity level since 2023 on 2022 activities.
Israel is an Adherent to the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Environmental Assessment of Development Assistance Projects and Programmes; the OECD Recommendation of the Council for Development Co-operation Actors on Managing the Risk of Corruption; the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas; the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development; the OECD Declaration on Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co‑operation; and the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. Learn more about OECD legal instruments and DAC Recommendations.
Israel participated in the 2025 DAC High Level Meeting.
Israel was as an observer in the DAC Peer Review of Finland in 2017.
The methodological notes provide further details on the definitions and statistical methodologies applied, including the grant-equivalent methodology, core and earmarked contributions to multilateral organisations, country programmable aid, channels of delivery, bilateral ODA unspecified/unallocated, bilateral allocable ODA, the gender equality policy marker, and the environment markers.
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← 1. DAC members adopted the grant-equivalent methodology starting from their reporting of 2018 data as a more accurate way to count the donor effort in development loans. See the methodological notes for further details.
← 2. Aid per person in extreme poverty is calculated by dividing net ODA (bilateral and imputed multilateral) by the population in extreme poverty in each country. It estimates how much ODA each person in extreme poverty would receive if total ODA was divided evenly among the extreme poor. This metric does not measure the amount of ODA actually received by each person in extreme poverty, nor does it measure how much ODA goes to poverty reduction. It instead highlights patterns in total ODA allocations relative to the number of people living in extreme poverty in each country. Group averages are calculated based on a weighted average of aid per person in extreme poverty and the number of people in extreme poverty for each country in the group. See the methodological notes for further details.