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Israel is ranked #40 in the 2014 Index
Israel's overall Index ranking is down from #24 in 2013

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15 Transport Timetables
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 http://he.mot.gov.il/index.php... GTFS - ... #7  70% 70%
15 Transport Timetables
URL: http://he.mot.gov.il/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&iotype=w&id=2243:pub-trn-memchakim&catid=167:pub-trn-dev-info&Itemid=304&lang_ovrrde=ENG
Format: GTFS - General Transit Feed Specifications, and SIRI - Service Interface for Real time Information

The Israeli Ministry of Transport issues real-time and static information - GPS locations of vehicles, time tables, routes, etc. The website and the information it contains is the property of the Israeli government, and the Ministry of Transport. In addition to the real-time data, the Ministry provides static, statistical data.
23 Government Budget
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 http://www.mof.gov.il/BUDGETSI... PDF, ... #18  70% 70%
23 Government Budget
URL: http://www.mof.gov.il/BUDGETSITE/STATEBUDGET/BUDGET2013_2014/
Format: PDF, word, excel

The data is also available graphically in http://budget.msh.gov.il
22 Election Results
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 http://www.votes-19.gov.il/nat... XLS, HTML #19  70% 70%
22 Election Results
URL: http://www.votes-19.gov.il/nationalresults
Format: XLS, HTML

No explicit license is indicated, thus data is considered non-open.
23 National Statistics
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 http://www.cbs.gov.il/ Excel n/a #16  70% 70%
23 Pollutant Emissions
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 http://www.sviva.gov.il/subjec... XML, JSON #34  35% 60%
23 Pollutant Emissions
URL: http://www.sviva.gov.il/subjectsEnv/SvivaAir/AirQualityData/Pages/Developers.aspx
Format: XML, JSON

In addition, The Israeli Ministry for Environment Protection provides a fairly primitive system (in Hebrew) for displaying emissions data on a map. The website and the data it contains are property of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the State of Israel: http://www.sviva.gov.il/InfoServices/ReservoirInfo/MekorotPleta/Pages/default.aspx

Data is updated in the API on a daily basis.
26 Company Register
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 http://havarot.justice.gov.il/... n/a #39  30% 45%
26 Company Register
URL: http://havarot.justice.gov.il/


Despite the official description, only basic data is available for for free, while advanced details about a corporation (e.g. debt status, insolvency) requires identification and payment.
50 National Map
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 http://www.govmap.gov.il/ HTML #30  45% 35%
50 National Map
URL: http://www.govmap.gov.il/
Format: HTML

The Data is available but need a consent from the office for being use in other projects. It is replacing an old and disfunctional national map site. It is not clear when and how often it is being updated.
92 Legislation
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 n/a n/a #47  35% 20%
92 Legislation


Some of the data is available, but in a non-systematic means of publication. Only laws from the 2002 onwards can be found via the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) website. Furthermore, the data is not publicly licensed. At the moment a complete set of all Israeli bills can be found through private companies.

A historic repository of legislation, since the inauguration of Israel and up until 2001, can be found [in this legislation database, yet it is not working for the past couple of years.[1]. Basic and special interest laws can also be read in English and in Russian.
16 Government Spending
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 n/a n/a #34  5% 10%
16 Government Spending


The data is not publicly available and some of it was just released through a FOI request (October 2014). We do not know in which format the data is.
42 Postcodes / Zipcodes
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 n/a n/a #21  45% 10%
42 Postcodes / Zipcodes


The Israeli Postal Company does not allow to download zipcode data in bulk, and there is no other official source for this data after the Israeli Post has been privatized. The data is only providing the street and house number but do not supply lat/long co-ordinates.

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