- ISO 3166
IL- Main language + region
he-IL- Currency
- ILS · Israeli New Shekel
- Region
- EMEA
Israel
Israel has 9.4M people, and 8.3M of them are online. Hebrew is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 12 languages CLDR lists here. Hebrew and Arabic are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to he-IL.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
8.3M
0%world median 81%100%
88% of 9.4M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$60,337
Higher than 89% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
89%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
12
Hebrew 100% · English 85% · Arabic 20%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
524
Very lowVery high
Moderate proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
97%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Israel
share of 9.4M people
- Hebrewofficial100%9.4M
- English85%8M
- Arabicofficial20%1.9M
- Levantine Arabic17%1.6M
- Russian11%1M
- Romanian3.7%347.9K
- Yiddish3%282.1K
- Polish1.5%141K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 4 more languages sit below the top eight, at 3% combined.
CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (he-IL).
Plural categories
3
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Hebrew
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Right-to-left
Use logical CSS properties (padding-inline-start, etc.). Wrap interpolated LTR with <bdi> or FSI/PDI.
Date
21 באפריל 2026
Short: 21.4.2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Sun
Currency
1,234.56 ₪
1,234.56 in ILS · Israeli New Shekel
The engineering behind the flags: Bidirectional text: why the dollar sign wanders in an RTL string · RTL layouts: what flips and what doesn't · Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script