Victims of hostilities

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Eligibility conditions for recognition as a victim of hostilities

First condition - you are injured in a hostile incident

A hostile attack is one of the following:

Damage from hostile action by enemy forces
Accidental damage by a person due to hostile action by enemy forces or accidental damage in circumstances where there was reason to reasonably fear that a hostile action would be carried out.
Injury from a weapon that was intended for hostile actions by enemy forces, or injury from a weapon that was intended against such an action.
Injury from an act of violence whose main purpose is injury to a person due to his belonging to a national-ethnic origin and which stems from the Israeli-Arab conflict.

And all on the condition that the approving authority, appointed by the Minister of Defense, confirmed that the attack was a hostile attack.

A hostile attack abroad:

An injury that occurred abroad will be recognized as a hostile injury if its purpose was injury to Israel or the Jewish people.
An attack that occurred as of April 1, 2012 will be recognized as a hostile attack abroad, even if its purpose was not to harm Israel or the Jewish people, and on the condition that the act of hostility occurred by an organization one of whose goals is to harm Israel, the citizens of Israel, or the Jews. In this case, you can be entitled to rewards as of April 1, 2017.
If you are injured in a hostile attack abroad and you are entitled to compensation according to the laws of the country where you were injured or the country where you reside - you are not entitled to compensation according to the Compensation Law for Victims of Hostilities.

Second condition - your status in Israel

Recognition as a victim of hostilities is only given to those whose status in Israel is one of the following:

You are a resident of Israel or possess Israeli citizenship and the injury occurred in Israel, in the territories of Judea and Samaria (territories controlled by Israel) or outside of Israel.
You have Israeli citizenship, and a year has not yet passed since you ceased to be a resident of Israel, and you were injured outside of Israel.
You do not have Israeli citizenship, but you enter Israel legally according to the Law on Entry into Israel, or you do not need a visa (such as holders of a diplomatic passport or tourists from a country that Israel has exempted from the visa requirement, etc.) - and you are injured in Israel or in the territories of Judea and Samaria (territories controlled by Israel).
You are a resident of the territories with an Israeli identity card, and you are injured in the area of the green line.
You are a resident of the territories and have an entry permit from the commander of the military forces in the territory, and you were injured in the area of the green line.
You are a foreign resident and were injured during and as a result of your work for an Israeli employerAbroad - To view the list of employers click here.

Note, if you were injured while committing a crime or while committing an offense involving malice or criminal negligence, you will not be recognized as a victim of hostilities.

Compensation during the medical treatment period.

A person injured in a hostile action who is unfit for work (according to a medical certificate and with the approval of the institution's doctor), is entitled during this period to compensation known as medical treatment compensation. and on the condition that he is not paid a salary or other compensation during this period. 

Other allowances paid to him during that period will be deducted from the remuneration.

Payment period: up to 9 months from the date of injury. The payment after 9 months is subject to the approval of the Bureau of Medical Advice in the National Insurance.

A victim who did not work before the injury

The compensation for those who do not have children, or whose children are adults (over the age of 18), will be 97% of the salary of a level 22 civil servant in the administrative ranking NIS 6,754.93 (as of 01.02.2022). Those who were hospitalized for 14 days or more in a row will receive 75 % of the above.

A parent of minor children (up to the age of 18) - will be entitled to compensation in the amount of 125.8% of the salary of a level 22 civil servant in the administrative ranking NIS 8,758.08 (starting on 02.01.2022).

A victim who was working before the injury

The payment to those who worked before the injury (salaried or self-employed) will be calculated based on their average income (after deduction of income tax, national insurance and health insurance) in the three months preceding the "determining date" (the date of the injury or the date of need for payment). In any case, the compensation will not exceed the maximum payment received by an Israeli soldier in reserve service, and will not be less than the compensation received by a person who did not work before the injury.

An employee who received a salary from his employer during the period of incapacity - the compensation will be transferred directly to his employer who will credit the balance of his sick days/vacation (a written confirmation from the employer about the payment must be attached to the request). In this case, the employer is also entitled to the reimbursement of the amounts he set aside for the employee to various social funds during that period. The refund will be sent directly to the employer.

A self-employed worker is entitled to compensation equal to the compensation paid to someone who did not work before his injury, and to a higher amount if he proves, through the presentation of assessments, that the rate of damage to his income during the period of incapacity is greater.

Victims up to the age of  18

Victims aged 14-18 years who did not work before starting their entitlement to benefits, will receive half of the amount received by a person who did not

Worked before his injury. If they were hospitalized for 14 days or more in a row - they will receive a reduced reward.

Victims aged 14-18 who worked at a regular job (before being eligible for compensation) will receive compensation according to their income (after deduction of income tax, social security and health insurance), but no less than the compensation received by peers who did not work before being eligible for compensation.

Children under the age of 14 are not entitled to compensation during medical treatment, but will be able to submit a claim for disability compensation. The degree of their disability will be determined from the day of the injury.

The documents needed to be submitted for recognition as a victim of hostilities

These are the documents that must be attached to the claim:

Documents attesting to receiving medical or psychological treatment following the injury.

If you claim that you have a mental injury due to exposure to a sequence of security events, you must also fill in Questioning form for a victim who claims mental harm following a series of security incidents (Bl/577).

Confirmation from the local police station. If the damage occurred in the territories of Judea and Samaria - approval from the IDF.

Medical certificates on incapacity to work, signed by a doctor acting on behalf of a qualified medical service.

An employee will attach certificates of his salary for the three months prior to the injury (every month must be listed separately, including payments to the income tax, national insurance and health insurance).

 Self-employed will attach income tax assessments for the current year and the year preceding his injury, to prove the rate of injury to his income.

The claim and the accompanying documents are submitted for approval by the approving authority (154) at the Ministry of Defense.

Filing a claim for disability compensation

To receive rewards you must fill in A claim to determine the degree of disability and payment of disability compensation, and attach medical documents. For information about the medical documents that must be attached  Click here 

The claim and documents must be sent to the branch nearest to the place of residence  on the website, by mail, fax or in the service box of the branch.

The date of filing the claim - the claim for compensation must be filed within one year from the date of the injury. Filing a claim out of time may harm your rights to rewards.

The claim is subject to the approval of the approving authority in the Ministry of Defense. Only after the approving authority has determined that the injury has been confirmed as a hostile attack, will the National Insurance take care of your rights.

If your claim was not approved by the approving authority, you may submit a written appeal to the appeals committee, within two months of receiving the decision. The address for filing the appeal: District Court, 1 Weizman St. Tel Aviv 6423901.

The decision of the Appeals Committee is final.

A victim of hostilities who submitted a claim for disability compensation, will be invited to appear before a medical committee, which has the authority to determine the degree of his disability for a temporary or permanent period, according to the severity of the injury.

The medical committee

The role of the medical committee is to assess the degree of disability of the victim, based on the material and the medical tests, and to express this in percentages.

The members of the medical committee are specialist doctors appointed by the Minister of Welfare. The composition of the committee can include one or more doctors, depending on the need. The committee's decisions are based on the medical examinations and special tests to determine the degree of disability.

Tests to determine the degree of disability

This is a list of vulnerabilities and diseases; Disability percentages were determined for each injury and illness, with details of the limitations they cause. In calculating the percentage of disability for the victim, a defect that existed before the injury, or a defect caused after it and not as a direct result of it, is not taken into account.

Instructions for the subject when appearing before the medical committee

Before the medical committee is your medical file, including documents about the injury or illness, received from the authorized medical authorities. Keep in mind that the basic information is known to the members of the committee, so it is important that you supplement what is known with updated medical material and bring with you illness summaries, certificates, etc.

The medical committee is authorized to determine the degree of your disability only in connection with the injury or illness that are related to the hostile injury that was recognized to you.

Calculation of the degree of disability

You can use the calculator to calculate the degree of disability.

The degree of disability is calculated as follows:

When there is one injury, the degree of disability will be the degree of disability of that injury. For example: a person who has been assigned a 40% disability degree for one defect, his disability degree will be 40%.

When there are several injuries, each of which has a separate degree of disability - both are weighed. For example: when there are two impairments, the first at a level of 60% and the second at a level of 30%, the first degree of disability will be 60% and the second will be 12% - which is 30% of the remaining 40%. So the total degree of disability will be 72%.

According to this form of calculation, the more injuries there are, the net degree of disability for each injury above the first fundamental injury decreases.

When two or more injuries relate to paired limbs (for example: two hands or two legs), the medical committee may combine the degrees of disability of these limbs. For example: a disability of 40% in one hand and 30% in the other will equal a 70% total degree of disability.

However, the final degree of disability will not exceed 100%. For example: a disability of 40% in one leg and 70% in the other equals 100% total degree of disability (and not 110%).

Invitation to re-examination

If the degree of your disability is temporary, or there has been a change in the degree of your disability, you will be invited to appear before the medical committee a second time. The National Insurance Institute may order a re-examination once a year, but the date of the examination can be brought forward, if there is reason to assume that there has been a change in the degree of your disability (but not less than six months after the committee's decision).

If you cannot appear at the appointed time, you must notify this in advance and set another date.

If you were invited for a re-examination before the medical committee and did not show up for the examination on time, and at least six months have passed since the determination of your last degree of disability - the National Insurance Institute may reduce your benefits

Request for rehearing

If you believe that your health condition has worsened due to the injury of the hostilities, and six months have passed since the date of the committee's decision regarding your disability, you may request a renewed discussion of your condition. A doctor's certificate attesting to the change must be attached to the application.

If the decision of the medical committee does not satisfy your opinion, you can appeal it to a medical committee for appeals.

You must submit the appeal within 60 days of receiving the notification of the decision (in special situations the deadline can be extended by another month. After that there is no longer a legal possibility to process the appeal), to the secretariat of the medical committee at the National Insurance branch nearest to your place of residence.

The decision of the medical appeals committee can be appealed on a question of law only before the labor court.

If you have filed an appeal, and the medical board is about to reduce your degree of disability, the board will inform you of this, and you may cancel the appeal.

The medical committees are independent in their decisions, and the National Insurance Institute is not allowed to interfere in the decisions.

The National Insurance Institute may also appeal the medical committee's decision in your case.

disability benefits

One-time disability grant

Disabled persons from hostilities, for whom a medical committee determined a permanent (permanent) degree of disability at a rate of 10% - 19%, are entitled to a one-time disability grant. The grant will be paid after the deadline for filing an appeal against the medical committee's decision has passed. If an appeal is filed, the grant or compensation will be paid after the degree of disability is re-determined.

the amount of the grant

degree of disability

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ The amount of the grant started on 01.01.2022

55,981.8  NIS

71,272.5  NIS

88,326.84  NIS

NIS 104,446.75

NIS 120,464.54 

136,066  NIS

 153,431.6 NIS

NIS 170,069.67

NIS 187,537.02 

211,744.9    ₪

Deduction of the grant due to a change in the degree of disability

If the victim was determined to have a degree of disability that does not exceed 19% and was paid a one-time grant, and at a later date, due to a worsening of the medical condition related to the hostile injury, the percentage of disability was raised to 20% or higher, the grant will be deducted from the monthly compensation that will be paid from the date the new disability begins._cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_

Monthly disability benefit

Persons disabled from hostilities, who have been assigned a degree of disability of 20% or higher, are entitled to monthly disability compensation.

Entitlement to compensation is from the date the disability began.

Monthly reward rate 

The "determining salary" for calculating the amount of the monthly compensation is -  150.6% of the salary of a civil servant in level 17 in the administrative ranking NIS 5,183.47.

A disabled person from a hostile action will be paid compensation according to the percentage of the degree of disability determined for him, multiplied by the determining salary.

Disability percentage

          _cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ The amount of the grant started on 01.01.2022

1,036.69  NIS

1,555.04 

NIS

2,073.39  NIS

2,591.74  ₪

NIS 3,110.08 4 

3,628.43   NIS

 4,146.78  ₪

4,665.12  ₪

5,183.47

 ₪

over 100

7,256.86      NIS

Additional compensation for the disabled from hostilities with a special 100% disability degree (100%+) 

An addition of 40% on the monthly compensation is paid to disabled persons from hostilities with a special 100% disability degree in the following types of injury: paraplegia; amputee of two legs or two arms; total blindness (in both eyes); severe burns (100% or more); Damaged nervous system suffering from serious functional disorders; A leg amputee with an additional injury to both hands.

Additional compensation for those disabled from hostilities who have reached retirement age 

A disabled person who has reached the age of retirement from work (and does not receive compensation for a dependent disabled person or additional compensation for the disabled with a special 100% disability degree) is entitled to a 10% increase on the monthly compensation paid to him.

Compensation supplement for those disabled from hostilities aged 55 and older (supplement for a disabled adult)

The compensation supplement is paid to the disabled with a degree of disability of 50% and above when they reach the age of 55, and to the disabled with a degree of disability of 40% - 49% when they reach the age of 57. The amount of the supplement is calculated as a percentage of the compensation paid to a disabled person with a degree of disability of 100%, and it increases according to the percentage of disability and the age of the disabled person._cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_

For your information, disabled people who receive compensation for a dependent disabled person, compensation for a disabled person due to lack of income, or compensation for medical treatment for more than 90 days, are not entitled to additional compensation

age

Disability percentages

Additional percentage

55 to 57

50%  up to 100%

57 to 59

40%  up to 49%

50%  up to 100%

14%

59 and above

40%  up to 49%

14%

50% to 100%

21%

Rewards after the death of a disabled person from hostilities

The family members of a person disabled from hostilities who died, and was entitled to benefits at the time of his death, are entitled to continue receiving the benefits to which the disabled person was entitled, for 3 years after the death. This is on the condition that the death was not due to the injury of the enemy, and the family members do not receive rewards according to the law of the families of soldiers who perished in the campaign.

The compensation that the disabled person from the hostilities was entitled to at the time of his death will be paid for 3 years to a family member that the disabled person ordered in writing to the claims clerk. In the absence of a written instruction, the compensation will be paid to the spouse, and in the absence of a spouse - to another family member (as defined in the Law on the Disabled), according to the decision of the claims clerk. If the disabled person received payment for special needs, this supplement will also be paid to the family member.

Rewards after the death of a "consumed invalid" from hostilities

The spouse of a disabled person who died will be paid at the end of the 3 years after his death benefits at the rate paid to a widower without children according to the law on the families of soldiers who perished in the campaign. This is on the condition that the spouse has no income to live on, and on the condition that he does not remarry.

A disabled person who died and did not have a spouse, but left behind a child, or whose spouse died and left behind a child, will be paid to the child, at the end of the 3 years after the death of the disabled person, the benefits paid to an orphan according to the Law on Families of Soldiers who died in the campaign, as long as he is an orphan within the meaning of the law.

Rewards after the death of a severely disabled person from hostilities

A disabled person from a hostile action who at the time of his death had a 100% special degree of disability, or a disabled person whose degree of disability was 90% or more due to a head injury, of the type stipulated for this matter in the regulations, and received compensation for a consumed disabled person, he is considered a disabled person who died due to his injury in a hostile action, and his family members are entitled to compensation according to Law of the families of soldiers who died in the campaign.

Payment of compensation balances for a person disabled from hostilities who died

A disabled person who died as a result of hostilities and at the time of his death was entitled to compensation balances, the amounts will be paid to whoever the disabled person instructed in writing to the claims clerk, in the absence of a written instruction - to the spouse, and in the absence of a spouse - to his heirs. 