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Israel — Class Actions Law, 5766-2006

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Israel

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collective.il
Version
1.0.0
In force from
March 12, 2006
Last read against its sources
August 5, 2026
Countries bound
Israel

In plain language

What this regime says.

Israel's Class Actions Law 2006 provides a single certification-based, opt-out class action for the subject matters listed in its Second Schedule, including consumer claims.

Who is covered

Class members as the certification decision defines them, unless they opt out.

What you get

A share of a judgment or court-approved settlement. We state no figure for this regime.

Where claims go wrong

  • Assuming any claim can be a class action. The Second Schedule limits the subject matter.

Authority

Every citation,
with its pinpoint.

A claim that cites “EU law” gets filed. A claim that cites Article 7(1)(c) gets answered. These are the exact coordinates this entry rests on.
  1. Class Actions Law, 5766-2006Israel — Class Actions Law (חוק תובענות ייצוגיות)Consolidated the previously scattered sectoral class-action provisions into a single statute. Claims must fall within the subject-matter list in the Second Schedule — which includes consumer claims, insurance, banking, securities, environment and discrimination — and must be certified by the court. Class members are included on an opt-out basis

Sources

Where a figure is indexed, converted or published by a regulator rather than fixed in the instrument, the provenance is recorded separately. Anything marked as a modelled estimate is exactly that — a model, not a statutory number.

What it imposes

Clocks, defences and the ladder.

A rule module builds these while it evaluates, because a limitation period depends on which forum is open to you. What follows is the structure this regime produces — deliberately with no dates and no figures, because those belong to your facts rather than to the law.

What it entitles you to, beyond money

  • You are in by default — and you can leaveClass members are included on an opt-out basis once the court certifies the action, and are bound by the judgment or approved settlement unless they exclude themselves within the period the court sets.Consolidated the previously scattered sectoral class-action provisions into a single statute. Claims must fall within the subject-matter list in the Second Schedule — which includes consumer claims, insurance, banking, securities, environment and discrimination — and must be certified by the court. Class members are included on an opt-out basis
  • Your own individual claim is still thereCollective redress is an alternative route, not a replacement. Unless you are bound by a judgment or a settlement in a collective action, your individual claim under the ordinary law survives, and for a small sum it is usually the faster route. Check the other regimes in this result.

What the other side will say

Each of these is a refusal this regime lets a counterparty attempt, paired with the answer to it. Reading them before you write is worth more than any amount of polish on the letter itself.

"We can file your class-action claim for you — for a percentage"

high likelihood

A claims-filing service, a "settlement recovery" app or a law firm that is not class counsel contacts you offering to handle the claim, taking 15-40% of whatever arrives. Some buy the claim outright for a fraction of its value. Others harvest the personal data on the form.

What answers it

Filing is free, it is done on the administrator's own website, and it takes minutes. Class counsel are already paid out of the settlement — you do not retain anyone and you do not owe anyone a percentage. Several administrators now reject bulk third-party filings outright, and some settlement agreements void claims submitted by an aggregator, so using one can cost you the whole claim rather than a slice of it. The only address you should be entering your details into is the official settlement website named in the notice, which is also the only place that can tell you the real deadline.

"Up to $X" is read as an entitlement

high likelihood

The notice, the press coverage and the aggregators all quote the maximum per-claimant figure. It is read as an entitlement.

What answers it

"Up to" is a cap, not a promise. Almost every consumer settlement is a fixed fund divided among valid claims, so the per-claimant payment falls as the claims rate rises and is calculated only after the claims period closes, after the administrator validates claims, and after fees and costs come out. A settlement quoted at "up to $100" routinely pays single digits. That is not a reason to skip filing — the form is free and takes minutes — but it is a reason not to plan around the headline number.

Where to take it next

  1. Report it to Consumer Protection and Fair Trade AuthorityCollective actions start as patterns in a regulator's or consumer body's complaint data. A single report is free, takes minutes, and is the only mechanism by which a case like yours becomes a case at all. It does not give you money and should not be mistaken for a claim.Regulatortypically 60 daysofficial page
  2. Run your own individual claim in parallelDo not wait for a collective action. They take years, most never certify, and the individual routes in this result run on their own limitation periods that keep expiring while you wait. If a collective action later covers the same loss you simply give credit for anything already recovered.Claim directtypically 30 days

The same claim type elsewhere

Class or group settlement — are you inside the class definition?GLOBALSupranational — party states varyFed. R. Civ. P. 23Confidence: highBelgium — action en réparation collective (Code de droit économique, Book XVII)BENational — BelgiumCode de droit économique / Wetboek van economisch recht, Livre XVII, Titre 2 (arts. XVII.35 et seq.)Confidence: lowEuropean Union — Representative Actions Directive (EU) 2020/1828EUSupranational — 27 countriesDirective (EU) 2020/1828 on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumersConfidence: highFrance — action de groupeFRNational — FranceAction de groupe — Code de la consommation, arts. L623-1 et seq., as reformed in 2025Confidence: lowGermany — Abhilfeklage and Musterfeststellungsklage (VDuG)DENational — GermanyVerbraucherrechtedurchsetzungsgesetz (VDuG)Confidence: mediumItaly — azione di classe (arts. 840-bis et seq. c.p.c.)ITNational — ItalyCodice di procedura civile, arts. 840-bis to 840-sexiesdecies (Legge 12 aprile 2019, n. 31)Confidence: mediumNetherlands — WAMCA collective damages actionsNLNational — NetherlandsWet afwikkeling massaschade in collectieve actie (WAMCA)Confidence: mediumPoland — group proceedings (postępowanie grupowe)PLNational — PolandUstawa z dnia 17 grudnia 2009 r. o dochodzeniu roszczeń w postępowaniu grupowymConfidence: low

Other rights in the same countries

Israel — Aviation Services Law (Compensation and Assistance) 5772-2012ILNational — IsraelAviation Services Law (Compensation and Assistance), 5772-2012, scope provisionsConfidence: mediumIsrael — Banking (Service to Customer) Law and the Debit Cards LawILNational — Israelחוק כרטיסי חיוב, התשמ"ו-1986 (Debit Cards Law, 5746-1986)Confidence: mediumIsrael — Consumer Protection Law cancellation of distance and continuing transactionsILNational — Israelחוק הגנת הצרכן, התשמ"א-1981 (Consumer Protection Law, 5741-1981)Confidence: mediumIsrael — Israel Railways delay refund policyILNational — IsraelIsrael Railways conditions of carriage, made under the Railways OrdinanceConfidence: lowIsrael — Protection of Privacy Law (as amended by Amendment 13)ILNational — Israelחוק הגנת הפרטיות, התשמ"א-1981 (Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981), ss. 13–14Confidence: mediumIsrael — ערובה / security on a residential lease (Rental and Borrowing Law 1971, s. 25י)ILNational — Israelחוק השכירות והשאילה, תשל"א-1971, s. 25יConfidence: high

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