ESIS extension / Israel / www Indicators / Update Memo 5

The file with the list of domains registered under the ccTLD IL is temporarily unavailable due to a major upgrade of the database software supporting the registration. This limits our analysis comparing the growth in domain names and sites with the ESIS categories.

We note a substantial increase of WWW sites in the under the category of Regional and Local Authorities. Almost all have now a Web site available due to a project carried out by the Union of Local Authorities in Israel; these sites include information on the Mayor; a Bulletin Board; General Information; History; Community Services; the Municipality; Education, Culture and Sport; Tourism; Commerce and Industry; Development Programs; Twin Cities.

The number of Government sites expanded although this doesn’t receive due weight in the number of Ministries presented in the table. However some expressions of increased government access can be obtained from the huge number of users of the Ministry of Finances Web upon the announcement of a deep Tax Reform; the establishment of direct access by the Israel Land Authority to all land related regulations and registries; the establishment of a Web site for the Police and the intensive publicity campaign announcing it and the services available.

Most significant developments can be found in the area of commercial portals: the establishment of the MSN Israel Portal and the massive expansion of Internet Portals by the main newspapers: the Yedioth Aharonot YNET; the Markers.Com economic portal established by Haaretz. This in addition to the established main services like Walla; Nana; Tapuz and more.

	Total number of population	Total number of Web sites	% of websites / total number of "population"	Source
Primary and Secondary Schools	3,343	560	17%	(1)
High schools and universities Universities Regional Colleges Teacher Colleges Other Colleges	- 8 12 36 -	67 >8 10 20 10	~85% 100%+ 83% 56% -	(2) (2a) (2b) (2c)
National ministries	22	20	91%	(3)
Regional and local authorities	260	256	99%	(4)
Hospitals/ clinics	56	29	52%	(5)
Museums	149	35	24%	(6)
Libraries Total Academic Libraries Teacher Colleges Local/Municipal	~1282 46 36 ~1200	61 32 Web 46 Telnet 7 Web 9 Telnet 10	~5% 100% 44% .83%	(7) (7a) (7b) (7c)

(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 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 (560) 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 360 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

(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 Union of Local Authorities in Israel http://www.cityindex.co.il/city_sys/index.asp with 256 sites established by the Union for each Local Authority and complemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il (independent sites – 66 Local Authorities).

(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 from the Clalit Health Insurance Cooperative site at: http://www.clalit.co.il/hospital/hosp2.htm

(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).

(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.

Source: The iGuide sites analysis sorted by domain name http://www.iguide.co.il/sites/sites.htm hasn’t been updated since January 2000. A file with the registered domain names in Israel was usually available at the Israel Internet Association web site (http://www.isoc.org.il)which is the IL ccTLD registrar. This file is not presently available due to a major revision of the software supporting the database and domain registration. When the file became again available alternative statistic analysis may be possible again.

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

The iGuide site hasn’t been updated since January 2000. A file with the registered domain names in Israel was usually available at the Israel Internet Association web site (http://www.isoc.org.il)which is the IL ccTLD registrar. This file is not presently available due to a major revision of the software supporting the database and domain registration. When the file became again available alternative statistic analysis may be possible again.