This guide looks at Israeli networks through public, verifiable data — the RIPE NCC registry, the global routing table, the RPKI and PeeringDB — rather than market shares or advertising. The figures are from 31 October 2026; Israel in numbers recomputes them every time we rebuild our datasets.
Infrastructure and provider: two different things
Home internet in Israel has traditionally been sold in two parts: the infrastructure — the line to the home, from Bezeq, from HOT’s cable network or, increasingly, from a fibre network — and the internet service provider (ISP) that carries the traffic onwards to the internet. The public address a website sees usually belongs to the ISP, not to the infrastructure company. That is why an IP lookup can show, for example, Bezeq International or Partner even when the line itself is Bezeq’s.
How much space is registered in Israel
In our copy of the RIPE NCC delegation file there were about 8.05 million IPv4 addresses in 995 blocks, 1,014 × /32 of IPv6 in 162 blocks and 385 AS numbers assigned to holders in Israel. Of the 385 AS numbers, 332 announced routes and 83 of them also announced IPv6.
The networks that originate the most addresses
Ranked by the IPv4 space they originate in the routing table (overlapping announcements are counted as announced, so the totals are approximate). Names are the registry’s; one company often runs several AS numbers.
| Network | AS | IPv4 announced (approx.) |
|---|---|---|
| Partner Communications | AS12400 | 4.2 million |
| IUCC (Israel InterUniversity Computation Center) | AS378 | 2.0 million |
| Bezeq International | AS8551 | 1.8 million |
| Cellcom Fixed Line Communication | AS1680 | 1.6 million |
| Hot-Net internet services | AS12849 | 449,000 |
| Bezeq — The Israel Telecommunication Corp. | AS6810 | 281,000 |
| Xfone 018 | AS47956 | 237,000 |
IUCC — the national research and education network that connects the universities — ranks second because the universities received large blocks in the early days of the internet: the Hebrew University’s 128.139.0.0/16 is one of them.
Mobile: IPv6 first
Pelephone (AS16116) announces 88 IPv4 prefixes but 107 IPv6 prefixes — the typical pattern of a mobile network, where many phones share a few IPv4 addresses through CGNAT and get their own IPv6. Partner and Cellcom carry both fixed and mobile customers on the AS numbers above. The IPv6 test shows whether your connection has IPv6.
RPKI
Of the 5,001 routes originated by Israeli networks that we checked, about 81 % were RPKI-valid and only 2 were invalid; the rest had no published authorisation. You can check any route with the RPKI validator.
Where the networks meet
Israel’s international traffic travels over submarine cables in the Mediterranean, so traffic between two Israeli networks should not have to leave the country. Networks exchange it directly at internet exchanges: PeeringDB lists IIX Israel in Petah Tikva and IL-IX, both run by the Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL), and ixFabric Tel-Aviv. PeeringDB lists 21 data centres in Israel, most of them in Petah Tikva, Rosh HaAyin, Tel Aviv and Tirat Carmel.
Where the addresses are
DB-IP places about 10.2 million IPv4 addresses in Israel: 45 % in the Tel Aviv district and 31 % in the Central district, then Haifa (13 %), Jerusalem (5 %), the Southern (4 %) and the Northern district (1.4 %). That reflects where providers’ central equipment and data centres are, not where people live — which is why so many lookups show Tel Aviv or Petah Tikva for connections elsewhere in the country.
What this data does not say
It does not say how many customers each provider has, nor the speed or quality of their service — official market figures come from the Ministry of Communications. It does say, precisely, which networks exist, which addresses they announce and whether those announcements are protected. Look up any network with the ASN lookup.