✶ Money · Parties Financing Law 5733-1973 · as of 4 November 2026
Paid for
by the seat.
Israeli parties are financed mainly by the state, in proportion to their seats in the Knesset. Private money is tightly capped: no company may give, and a household may give a party ₪2,800 in an election year. The State Comptroller audits every account.
The financing unit · יחידת מימון
₪1.8m
a unit, for 2026.
Everything is counted in "financing units", set by a public committee and indexed each January. For the 2026 election it is ₪1,835,000; for monthly funding, ₪1,638,000.
- Election funding(seats won in 2022 + seats won in 2026) ÷ 2 units, plus an add-on of 1.4 units (1 in the permanent law; raised for 2022 and 2026). A new party gets one unit per seat won plus the add-on.s.3 · Amendment 46 ↗
- Below the thresholdA list with more than 1% of the valid vote but no seat gets one unit: 85% when results are published, 15% after a positive audit.s.2(a1) ↗
- Advances80% of a unit for each member a faction had on the determining day, 18 July 2026 (70% in the permanent law).s.4 ↗
- Every month6% of a unit per seat plus 6% of a unit: ₪98,280 per seat per month in 2026.s.3(c) · Y.P. 14141 ↗
Try it · Parties Financing Law ss.3, 7 · 2026 amounts
What a list gets
- Election funding
- —
- Ongoing funding, a month
- —
- Election spending cap
- —
Election unit ₪1,835,000 (2026); ongoing unit ₪1,638,000. Funding = (2022 seats + 2026 seats) ÷ 2 + 1.4 units; a new party gets 2026 seats + 1.4. The cap uses members on the determining day, here taken as the 2022 seats. Mergers, splits and joint lists (each party computed separately, add-on shared) are not modelled.
Limits
Caps on spending,
caps on giving.
-
Spending
By members on the determining day: up to five, 10 units; six to ten, 2 units each; above ten, 1.5 units for each extra member; never more than 70 units (₪128m in 2026).
s.7 ↗ -
Donations
₪1,100 a year per person with their household, ₪2,800 in an election year; five times that for parties outside the Knesset; up to ₪150,400 for a list that gives up state funding.
s.8, s.8C · Y.P. 14141 ↗ -
Who may give
No corporation, in Israel or abroad. Donations only from a person entitled to vote, never anonymous and never in cash. An illegal donation costs the party twice its amount. (That this excludes foreign donors is our reading of "only from a voter"; the law has no clause naming them.)
s.8(a), (d1)–(e) ↗ -
Third parties
Groups campaigning in an election must register once their activity passes ₪120,400 (secondary: Wikisource note).
s.10C ↗
State Comptroller · 25th Knesset election (1 November 2022) · report of February 2024
Fourteen of sixteen
in deficit.
Parties reported about ₪195m of income and ₪251m of spending. Fourteen of sixteen ended the campaign in deficit, about ₪59.4m in all. Ra'am spent about ₪2.5m over its ₪16.0m cap.
- Income
- Spending
- Likud הליכוד ₪51.0m ₪57.0m
- Yesh Atid יש עתיד ₪35.0m ₪39.4m
- National Unity (joint accounts) המחנה הממלכתי on the National Unity list ₪22.2m ₪24.6m
- Shas ש"ס ₪18.2m ₪20.7m
- Ra'am (United Arab List) רע"מ on the Ra'am list ₪9.4m ₪18.5m
- Yisrael Beiteinu ישראל ביתנו ₪12.7m ₪16.1m
- Labor העבודה ₪11.4m ₪15.4m
- Meretz מרצ ₪1.6m ₪14.1m
- Degel HaTorah דגל התורה on the UTJ list ₪6.7m ₪10.4m
- Agudat Yisrael אגודת ישראל on the UTJ list ₪6.7m ₪9.0m
- Hazit Yehudit Leumit (registered party) חזית יהודית לאומית on the Religious Zionism–Otzma Yehudit list ₪5.4m ₪8.4m
- HaIhud HaLeumi–Tkuma (registered party) האיחוד הלאומי on the Religious Zionism–Otzma Yehudit list ₪9.9m ₪7.1m
- Atid Ehad (registered party) עתיד אחד on the Religious Zionism–Otzma Yehudit list ₪901,818 ₪5.4m
- Lazuz (registered party) לזוז on the Religious Zionism–Otzma Yehudit list ₪1.9m ₪3.8m
- Eretz Yisrael Shelanu (registered party) א"י שלנו on the Religious Zionism–Otzma Yehudit list ₪1.8m ₪1.4m
- Economic Freedom חופש כלכלי ₪147,554 ₪282,014
State election funding in the table adds up to ₪195m; the report prints no total for all lists, so we show none.
| Party | Withheld | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Jewish Home (joint list) הבית היהודי בראשות איילת שקד | — | No election-period accounts filed; not entitled to ongoing funding, so the law sets no money sanction. |
| Likud הליכוד | ₪140,000 | Breach of the Elections (Propaganda) Law; tax withheld on payments not reported/paid on time. |
| National Unity המחנה הממלכתי | ₪100,000 | Tax withheld on election-period payments not reported/paid on time. |
| Hazit Yehudit Leumit חזית יהודית לאומית | ₪15,000 | Irregular expenses for employing a candidate during the election period. |
| Yesh Atid יש עתיד | ₪15,000 | Breach of the Elections (Propaganda) Law. |
| Ra'am רע"מ | ₪200,000 | Spending cap exceeded by about ₪2.5m (~16%); withheld tax not reported/paid on time. |
Ongoing accounts · 2024 · report of 2 June 2026
Surpluses
and debts.
The 17 factions of the 25th Knesset took in about ₪168m in 2024 and spent about ₪123m. Ten carried accumulated deficits totalling about ₪81.2m; together they owed the Knesset about ₪95.9m in loans.
Sanctions: Likud ₪150,000 (membership-dues income outside the legal limits on payer identity and source; undocumented pay rises); Labor ₪75,000 (prohibited loan received through a party-owned company (s. 7b)).
2026 accounts. The election-period accounts for 27 October 2026 are not yet published. They are due 24 weeks after the official results are published, and the Comptroller reports within 24 weeks after that (s.10); with results certified on 4 November 2026, that points to spring 2027 for the accounts.
- Accumulated balance at 31 December 2024
- Likud הליכוד −₪40.9m
- Ra'am רע"מ −₪12.1m
- Degel HaTorah דגל התורה −₪6.7m
- Agudat Yisrael אגודת ישראל −₪6.0m
- Yisrael Beiteinu ישראל ביתנו −₪4.3m
- Labor העבודה −₪3.7m
- Lazuz לזוז −₪3.1m
- New Hope תקווה חדשה −₪2.5m
- Blue and White כחול לבן −₪1.7m
- Hazit Yehudit Leumit חזית יהודית לאומית −₪278,371
- Eretz Yisrael Shelanu א"י שלנו ₪937,933
- Atid Ehad עתיד אחד ₪1.8m
- Ta'al תע"ל ₪7.2m
- HaIhud HaLeumi–Tkuma האיחוד הלאומי ₪10.5m
- Hadash חד"ש ₪13.0m
- Shas ש"ס ₪16.8m
- Yesh Atid יש עתיד ₪31.8m
Primaries · Parties Law 5752-1992, chapter 7.1
Candidates
have caps too.
Likud, Labor (now in the Democrats), Meretz and HaIhud HaLeumi chose their 2022 lists in primaries; the Comptroller audited 224 candidates, who reported about ₪17.3m of income and must pay ₪226,200 to the Treasury. A candidate's cap depends on how many party members may vote:
| Party voters | Candidate for the Knesset | Party leader / PM candidate |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | ₪20,980 | ₪41,960 |
| 10,000 | ₪208,720 | ₪417,440 |
| 50,000 | ₪318,720 | ₪1,274,880 |
| 120,000 | ₪585,370 | ₪2,341,480 |
One donor may give one candidate at most ₪13,470 (2026 amounts, ordinary primaries).