How to Access gov.il from Abroad

Yes, gov.il and the national login work from abroad today: in our check on 23 October 2026, gov.il with its personal area, the national login and government payments, including the driving-licence fee, opened from abroad without a VPN. The Israel Tax Authority is the exception: its site and personal area don't open from abroad, and that is where you need an Israeli IP. If your gov.il login fails, the cause is usually the code going to an old Israeli number, not your location.

How to access gov.il from abroad

1. Open gov.il or my.gov.il and the service you need.
2. For your personal area, log in through the national identification system and confirm with the code.
3. Do what you came for: a certificate, an application or a payment.

If the code goes to an Israeli number you no longer have, switch your contact details to your local mobile first: gov.il says an Israeli citizen abroad can register a foreign mobile number with the national identification system (gov.il); details in the FAQ below. Bituach Leumi (Israel's National Insurance Institute) runs its own site with its own login; see Bituach Leumi from abroad.

If gov.il doesn't open for you

• The page doesn't load or loads half-way. Try another browser, switch off an ad blocker or extensions, and try again later; the site may be under maintenance.
• The code doesn't arrive. It goes to the contact details on file. Update them as described in the FAQ.
• Login is refused. A wrong password or a locked account is a login problem, not an access-from-abroad problem; use the password recovery.
• No Israeli site loads from abroad, or you get "access denied". See An Israeli website says 'access denied'.

When government sites were restricted from abroad

There have been temporary exceptions. In April 2014, ahead of an expected cyberattack, Israel restricted foreign traffic to some government sites for several days, and electronic payments from abroad for government services were to be refused for that period (GigaLaw). On 10 January 2021 Calcalist (an Israeli business daily) reported that the Tax Authority was applying tighter controls to connections from abroad, case by case and, by its own account, not as a blanket block; a person in Germany had been refused when paying income tax, and the Capital Market Authority had temporarily limited access from abroad to its services, including Har HaBituach, its insurance-policy lookup (Calcalist). On 8 December 2021, after a cyberattack, Bituach Leumi kept its site closed to visitors from abroad only for a time (Kipa). None of these says anything about whether a site is closed today, but they show that such restrictions arrive without warning. You usually find out at the worst moment, with a filing or payment deadline close, and end up trying one VPN after another in a hurry until one more or less works. It is calmer to set it up in advance and, when you need it, just press "Connect".

The Tax Authority: the part that needs an Israeli IP

The Tax Authority's site and personal area don't open from abroad, although they work from Israel. That is where an Israeli IP helps; it does not replace the Tax Authority's own registration, codes or permissions. The details, including what to try without a VPN, are in the Israel Tax Authority from abroad. Having trouble opening the Tax Authority site? Test it through an Israeli IP with SuperStableVPN: free for 3 days, no credit card required.