Digital Government Outlook 2026: Israel
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This country note presents an overview of the digital government landscape in Israel drawing on the results of the 2025 OECD Digital Government Index (DGI) and the 2025 OECD OURdata Index. The note outlines key policy developments in the country observed during the assessment period. It aims to inform policy dialogue and support Israel in advancing a whole-of-government approach to digital transformation in the public sector.
In the 2025 edition of the OECD Digital Government Index, Israel attained a score of 0.67, below the OECD average of 0.70. This represents a 0.17 increase since 2023 (Figure 1).
Israel recorded higher scores in User-Driven (0.81) and Open by Default (0.60), compared with OECD averages of 0.71 and 0.59, respectively. These results reflect Israel’s efforts in placing user needs and feedback at the centre of service design and delivery processes, as well as progress in promoting openness in digital government.
Israel scored below the OECD average in Proactiveness (0.52 vs 0.67), Government as a Platform (0.68 vs 0.71), Digital by Design (0.71 vs 0.75) and Data-driven Public Sector (0.71 vs 0.74). This suggests that Israel still has room for improvement in anticipating user needs through proactive service design, developing shared platforms, and further embedding digital technologies and data-driven approaches across government.
In the 2025 edition of the OECD OURdata Index, Israel attained a score of 0.42, below the OECD average of 0.53 (Figure 2). This represents a 0.05 increase since 2023.
Israel scored below the OECD average across all three pillars: 0.42 in Data availability, 0.57 in Data accessibility and 0.28 in Government support for data re-use, compared with OECD averages of 0.53, 0.67 and 0.40, respectively. Data accessibility (0.57) remains the relatively strongest pillar, though challenges persist across all dimensions of open government data provision.
The lowest score was recorded in Government support for data re-use (0.28), though this represents a notable improvement from 0.04 in 2023. This means that Israel has room for improvement in developing mechanisms to actively promote the re-use of government data and measure its public value.
Israel has established a digital government governance structure led by the Israel National Digital Agency. The Agency spearheaded the National Digital Strategy 2025–2029, formally anchored in Government Resolution No. 2273, which provides the framework for the Government Cloud Strategy adopted in 2024 and strategies on data, AI, and services currently under development. The CIO unit, integrated into the Agency in 2022, oversees government ICT governance, including strategy, budgeting, and approval of projects exceeding ILS 5 million (around EUR 1.5 million).
User-centred service design in Israel is supported by standardised principles and agile methodologies. The Digital Transformation Guide and Service Design Principles (Government Resolution No. 1366) establish requirements for user journey mapping, persona development, concept testing, and continuous monitoring. Centres of Excellence such as Agile@Gov support ministries in transitioning toward iterative, product-based service delivery with strict KPI monitoring.
A comprehensive data interoperability system is supported through the Data Avenue project, enabling real-time information sharing between public bodies, including a shared API platform and services catalogue used by multiple organisations. More recently, the Cheetah system was launched to govern information-sharing workflows through an inter-organisational semantic catalogue mapping databases and data fields across public bodies.
While Israel has a public sector AI strategy in place, broader components of its AI framework could be strengthened. Recent developments signal progress in this direction: AI Watch, launched in 2024, provides a dashboard of AI uses in government, and an open public consultation on a draft Guide for Responsible Use of AI in the Public Sector was launched in June 2025. The establishment of an AI Directorate via Government Resolution No. 3375 further strengthens the institutional framework.
Israel is actively developing its public sector digital talent framework. The HaDigitalit Academy contributes to public sector digital skills development, alongside data-sharing communities and the Har Hayeda knowledge hub. While training coverage continues to expand, a formal needs assessment for digital skills and broader coverage of core digital government competencies could further strengthen targeted capability development.
The OECD Digital Government Outlook (DGO) provides a comprehensive assessment of digital government policies across OECD Members and accession candidate countries. It draws on the results of the 2025 OECD Digital Government Index (DGI) and the 2025 OECD Open, Useful and Re-usable Data (OURdata) Index to evaluate progress and identify persistent gaps in digital transformation across the public sector.
The DGI assesses the enabling foundations for digital transformation across six dimensions: Digital by Design, Data-driven Public Sector, Government as a Platform, Open by Default, User-Driven and Proactiveness. Rather than measuring the digitalisation of specific services, the DGI focuses on the strategies, policy levers, implementation practices and monitoring mechanisms that enable coherent, whole-of-government digital transformation.
The OURdata Index benchmarks the robustness of open government data policies across three pillars: data availability, data accessibility and government support for data re-use. It supports policymakers in monitoring the design and implementation of national open government data policies.
Both indices were developed with OECD Member countries through the OECD Working Party of Senior Digital Government Officials (E-Leaders) and approved by the OECD Public Governance Committee.
Figure 1: The 2025 DGI OECD average does not include Germany and the United States. 2025 data cover the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2024. The 2023 OECD average does not include Germany, Greece, Slovakia, Switzerland and the United States. 2023 data cover the period from 1 January 2021 to 31 October 2022. The composite score is the unweighted average of the six-dimension scores.
Figure 2: The 2025 and 2023 OURdata Index OECD average does not include Denmark, Hungary and the United States. 2025 data cover the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2024. 2023 data cover the period from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2021. The composite score is the unweighted average of the three-pillar scores.
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The full book is available in English: OECD (2026), Digital Government Outlook 2026: From Foundations to Transformational Impact, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/0496b2bc-en.
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