July 1999

Overview: Israel

1. Background

There are good sources for the number of registered under the different categories used in Israel by the domain name registered through the Israeli registrar, the Israeli Internet Association, (ISOC-IL) http://www.isoc.org.il . This provides valid data on the development of the Internet in the country. On the other hand the number of WWW sites, when categories other that those generally used for domain registration rely on a variety of sources of varied reliability. In continuation we bring both kinds of data so that the statistical analysis using the ESIS defined categories may be carried out.

2. Israeli Web Sites by ESIS Categories

(1) The number of educational institutions is from the site of the Ministry of Education - Data on Schools - Primary, Junior and High Schools 31 August 1998 http://www.education.gov.il/edu/data/data_1.htm ; The number of Web sites of schools is that available at the National Site for Israel in Netdays Europe http://netdays.org.il It should be noted that the number of the schools linked to the Internet according to the National Inspector for Computer Applications in Education at the National Conference for Computers in Education (6-7 July 1999) is 700 connected by Frame Relay and 680 connected by dial-up.

(2) Number of Web sites indicated in iGuide ; universities and colleges available at the Academic Site of Israel at http://www.ac.il
2a - Web sites of Teacher Colleges available at the National Teachers Colleges Network : http://www.macam98.ac.il
2b - Information on Regional Colleges available at: http://www.tau.ac.il:81/colleges . Their sites available at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs site: http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il
2c - Sites accessible at the Academic Web of Israel http://www.ac.il

(3) The sites of the Ministries are available either at the Government Portal : http://www.info.gov.il or at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il

(4) The number of local authorities in Israel is from Central Bureau of Statistics Statistical Annuary for Israel (1998) . The table is available at the CBS web site in: http://www.cbs.gov.il/shnaton//st02-13ab_h.shtml . There are 61 Municipalities; 148 Local Councils; 51 Regional Councils in the pre-1997 Israel territories; 7 Regional Councils in the post-1997 territories. The Web sites were found both at the Local Authorities Association http://www.ladpc.gov.il and complemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il

(5) The Ministry of Health maintain only a list of governmental hospitals and the main Health Insurance Cooperatives. Comprehensive lists were obtained and conflated from a commercial site: http://www.doctor.co.il/hospitalslink.htm and from the Maccabi Health Insurance Cooperative site: http://www.maccabi-health.co.il/services_guide/hospital.html The list of Web sites was obtained from the Ministry of Health site: http://www.health.gov.il/code/kishur.htm for governmental hospitals and for the others from the Clalit Health Insureance Cooperative site at: http://www.clalit.co.il/hospital/hosp2.htm

(6) The list of museums obtained at http://www.rakia.com The museums and archaeological museums sites obtained at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs site: http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il

(7) The sites of Academic libraries is available at the The Israeli Library Network at: http://libnet.ac.il/~libnet/net/librarys.html . In addition to the libraries listed here there are about Special Libraries in Israel; their Periodicals Holdings are available at the Unified List of Serials; such libraries are internal libraries of institutions and businesses and should not be expected to establish public available catalogues or Web sites. The Union List of Serials lists over 99,000 different serial titles held by over 170 special libraries and collections (see http://libnet.ac.il/~libnet/uls/ulsinfo.htm ).
7b - The list of Teachers Colleges Libraries connected is available at: http://www.macam98.ac.il/library/aleph.htm
7c - The Training Centre for Public Libraries in Isael (http://www.icl.org.il) estimates unofficially that the number of public and local libraries in 1200 ; There are reason to suppose that several of them have Web sites embedded in the Web sites of their local authorities (municipalities); however direct links have been found for only for 6 such local libraries.

3. Israeli Web Sites by Domain Names (June 11, 1999)

Source: iGuide sites sorted by domain name http://www.iguide.co.il/sites/sites.htm

4. Israeli Institutions Domain Growth (June 11, 1999)

Source: iGuide Israeli institutions domains growth http://www.iguide.co.il/stats.htm . In the original site you will find the domains partitioned by secondary level: co.il; org.il; ac.il; k12.il; gov.il; net.il; muni.il; com; net; org; edu; israel.net.