Israel Address Format Guide: Structure & Examples

Updated: November 27, 2025
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Israel Address Format Guide

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the standard address format used in Israel. Whether you’re shipping packages, sending mail, or validating addresses for your business, understanding the proper address structure is essential for successful deliveries. We’ll cover the basic elements, provide examples, and explain how GeoPostcodes can help with address validation.

Israel - Address Format

An address format in Israel contains the following elements:

  1. Recipient’s name
  2. Business or department name (if applicable)
  3. House number and Street name
  4. City Name and Postal Code (7 digits)
  5. Country – ISRAEL (in all caps)

John Smith
2 Dvora HaNevi’a Street
Jerusalem 9510402
ISRAEL

Israel Address Format Examples

Example 1:

John Smith
1 Kaplan Street
Jerusalem 9195015
ISRAEL

Example 2:

Israel Post Office
42 Sderot Ye’elim
Be’er Sheva 8473917
ISRAEL

Postal and Country Information for Israel

Country/territory name Israel
ISO codes ISO 3166-1 alpha-2: IL
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: ISR
ISO 3166-1 numeric-1: 376
Administrative area count 7
Administration area names and abbreviations
  • Central
  • Haifa
  • Jerusalem
  • Northern
  • Southern
  • Tel Aviv
  • M
  • HA
  • JM
  • Z
  • D
  • TA
Term to describe postal codes Postal code
Postal code format 99999 99
Population 9 873 439
Total land area 20 903km²

How to Validate Addresses for Israel Using GeoPostcodes Database

GeoPostcodes offers comprehensive address validation database to validate Israel addresses. Our database ensures addresses follow the correct format for Israel, reducing delivery errors and improving efficiency.

Use GeoPostcodes:

  • Address Database to validate Street Names, Cities and Postal Codes in Israel
  • Postal Database if you only need to validate Cities and Postal Codes in Israel
  • Population Database if you would like to do urban/rural mapping or compute how many people live in Israel segmented by postal code, city or administrative divisions

You can leverage GeoPostcodes data to validate addresses in Israel using:

  • Street column to validate Street names
  • Locality column to validate City names
  • Postcode column to validate Postal Codes