April 2000

Update: Israel

1. Background

There have been a substantial increase in the number of domain names registered under the ccTLD IL (28%) and in the numbers of the Web sites in Israel (28%) in the months from September 1999 to January 2000. The updated statistics concerning domain names are brought in Tables 3 an 4 below.

A careful survey of our sources have not identified a reflection of this growth in the ESIS categories for Web sites. The growth of Web sites in Israel concentrates massively in the CO.IL top level domain and in the ORG.IL top level domain.

Top level domains like ac.il (academic), k12.il (schools), gov.il (government), muni.il (local authorities) do not indicate any substantial changes.

Main changes since the last Q3 WWW sites report

The Kishurim consortium for school networking announced a substantial increase in the number of schools that have established Web sites using the EduWeb system, they claim that 200 schools have established Web sites in recent months (http://www.e-du-web.co.il). This announcement rises the total estimate for primary and secondary schools web sites from 300 to 500 and the percentage in the population from 9.0% to 14.9%..

2. Israeli Web Sites by ESIS Categories

(1) The number of educational institutions is from the site of the program for educational networking of the Ministry of Education http://www.kishurim.k12.il David Carmi, the Marketing Director of Kishurim provided (30.3.2000) updated figures: 1008 schools connected, 85% of them by a fixed direct connection (Frame Relay) and the remaining either by ISDN to LAN (10) or by dial up. He claims that among them 200 schools have established Web sites using the EduWeb system developed by Kishurim. We get an estimate of the Web sites for schools (500) by adding the 200 of Kishurim to the number of Web sites of schools is that available at the National Site for Israel in Netdays Europe http://netdays.org.il (92) and visits to the main educational networks (Netschool (116), Keshev, Amalnet (37), ORT, Snunit (12), Tzafonet (20) and the file of Israeli schools available at http://www.jajz-ed.org.il(81) . The rough numer of 300 Web sites allows for duplications among the different sources.

(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 in January 2000 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/net/librarys.html).

(7b) The list of Teachers Colleges Libraries connected is available at: http://www.macam98.ac.il/library/

(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 10 such local libraries..

3. Israeli Web Sites by Domain Names (January 15, 2000)

Source: For June and September, 1999 and January 2000: iGuide sites sorted by domain name http://www.iguide.co.il/sites/sites.htm

4. Israeli Institutions Domain Growth (January 15, 2000)

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;