No paid figure stated in the government’s documents
The State Comptroller (November 2024) puts the two approved phases of the Telem programme at about NIS 1 billion and reports only 'realisation' of the first phase (NIS 220 million of about NIS 550 million to December 2023), a measure the Hebrew report defines to include budget commitments not yet paid; no Finance Ministry, Comptroller, Knesset or Innovation Authority document read reports money actually paid out under the programme or the supercomputer grant.
National Program for Artificial Intelligence (Telem Forum), first and second phases (Government Decisions 212 of 1 August 2021 and 173 of 24 February 2023)
The whole programme. Decision 212 approved a first phase of about NIS 550 million for 2021–2023 and Decision 173 a second of up to NIS 500 million in commitment authority for 2023–2026; the Comptroller and the Knesset Research and Information Center both total them at about NIS 1 billion. The sentence stating the total gives no period of its own, so the budget's period is left null (the tranches' own periods are on the component lines). The money is pooled under partner agreements from the budgets of the Telem bodies (Innovation Authority, the Defence Ministry's MAFAT, the Planning and Budgeting Committee, the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, the Finance Ministry), so the state budget carries no item for the programme whose execution could be read. The national supercomputer grant (the national supercomputer line) was awarded inside this programme.
Approved by the government: the National AI Program’s ~1 billion ILS budget across its first two phases. Printed as “about NIS 1 billion”. About $272M at the reference rate of 24 Feb 2023. It should be noted that the total budget approved for both the first and second phases was about NIS 1 billion, about one-fifth of the budget recommended by the Telem Committee in December 2020.
Office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel, State Comptroller of Israel, Annual Report on Cyber and Information Systems (November 2024): Artificial Intelligence – National Preparedness, special audit report, English abstract, Abstract, PDF page 10 (report page 102), paragraph on the second phase, 12 Nov 2024
Committed: 220 million ILS, 31 Dec 2023. Printed as “NIS 220 million”. The Comptroller's 'realisation' of the first phase at its close. The abstract says it 'refers to agreements that have been signed, of which tens of millions of NIS have not yet been executed or completed', and the Hebrew report (page 39, footnote 43) defines realisation to include components on which budget commitments were issued but not yet realised; this is signed commitments plus spending, not expenditure. The Hebrew report's chart 14 shows 30.5 + 138.1 + 34.4 + 4 = 207.0 by component, NIS 13 million short of the 220 in its text; the gap is unexplained. only 40% was realized of the first phase budget, the government approved for 2021–2023 (NIS 220 million out of about NIS 550 million). The realization rate refers to agreements that have been signed, of which tens of millions of NIS have not yet been executed or completed
Office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel, State Comptroller of Israel, Annual Report on Cyber and Information Systems (November 2024): Artificial Intelligence – National Preparedness, special audit report, English abstract, Abstract, PDF page 5 (report page 97), key-data panel 'only 40%', 12 Nov 2024
National AI Program, first phase (Government Decision 212, 1 August 2021)
A part of the programme. The first of the programme's two approved tranches: compute (HPC), Hebrew and Arabic language processing, human capital, and regulation. The Telem bodies signed a partner agreement for NIS 517 million in November 2021 (Hebrew report, page 21).
Approved by the government: the first phase’s ~550 million ILS budget, January 2021 to December 2023. Printed as “about NIS 550 million”. About $170M at the reference rate of 30 Jul 2021. In August 2021, following Government Resolution 212, the government approved the Telem Committee's recommendations, initiating the first implementation phase with a budget of about NIS 550 million from 2021 to 2023.
Office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel, State Comptroller of Israel, Annual Report on Cyber and Information Systems (November 2024): Artificial Intelligence – National Preparedness, special audit report, English abstract, Abstract, PDF page 4 (report page 96), background, 12 Nov 2024
Committed: 30 million ILS, 31 Dec 2023. Printed as “about NIS 30 million”. High-performance computing (supercomputer) component: about NIS 30 million of NIS 270 million approved. The English abstract says 'disbursed', but the Hebrew original (page 24) says 'מימוש' (realisation) and its footnote 35 defines that to include budget commitments not yet realised, so the two government texts describe the figure differently; the Hebrew definition is followed here and the figure is recorded as commitments, not payments. Chart 14 prints 30.5. Thus, the implementation rate of the first phase for advancing artificial intelligence stood at merely 11%, with about NIS 30 million disbursed out of a total approved budget of NIS 270 million.
Office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel, State Comptroller of Israel, Annual Report on Cyber and Information Systems (November 2024): Artificial Intelligence – National Preparedness, special audit report, English abstract, Abstract, PDF page 9 (report page 101), 'High-Performance Computing' finding, 12 Nov 2024
Committed: 30 million ILS, 31 Dec 2023. Printed as “כ-30 מיליון ש"ח”. The Hebrew original of the same figure, recorded because it and the English abstract describe it differently: footnote 35 on the same page states that realisation includes components on which budget commitments were issued but not yet realised. Quote normalised from pdftotext's right-to-left output (number and hyphen order); check against the page. לפיכך שיעור מימוש הפעימה הראשונה בתחום זה לטובת קידום הבינה המלאכותית היה 11% בלבד, כ-30 מיליון ש"ח מתוך 270 מיליון ש"ח שאושרו. [הערה 35:] יצוין כי בדוח זה ההתייחסות לשיעור המימוש של רכיבי הפעימה כוללת רכיבים שמומשו וכן רכיבים שהוצאו לגביהם התחייבויות תקציבית אך טרם מומשו בפועל. (Therefore the realisation rate of the first phase in this area for advancing artificial intelligence was only 11%, about NIS 30 million out of NIS 270 million approved. [Footnote 35:] It should be noted that in this report the reference to the realisation rate of the phase's components includes components that were realised as well as components for which budget commitments were issued but have not yet been realised in practice.)
Office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel, מבקר המדינה, דוח שנתי בנושא סייבר ומערכות מידע, נובמבר 2024: ההיערכות הלאומית בתחום הבינה המלאכותית – דוח מיוחד (full report, Hebrew), PDF page 25 (report page 24), HPC section and footnote 35, 12 Nov 2024
Committed: 138 million ILS, 31 Dec 2023. Printed as “NIS 138 million”. Hebrew and Arabic natural-language-processing component: NIS 138 million of NIS 180 million approved, including a NIS 37 million language-model agreement signed on 31 December 2023 that is only a commitment. Chart 14 prints 138.1. reached 76% of the approved budget for this component (NIS 138 million out of NIS 180 million). This realization rate includes the language model agreement, which has only a budgetary commitment of NIS 37 million and has yet to be realized.
Office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel, State Comptroller of Israel, Annual Report on Cyber and Information Systems (November 2024): Artificial Intelligence – National Preparedness, special audit report, English abstract, Abstract, PDF page 9 (report page 101), NLP finding, 12 Nov 2024
Committed: 34 million ILS, 31 Dec 2023. Printed as “NIS 34 million”. Human-capital component: NIS 34 million of NIS 62 million; 'realised' carries the same commitments-inclusive definition. Chart 14 prints 34.4. As of the end of 2023, only NIS 34 million out of NIS 62 million was realized, about 55% of the allocated budget, mainly addressing academic needs while neglecting industry requirements.
Office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel, State Comptroller of Israel, Annual Report on Cyber and Information Systems (November 2024): Artificial Intelligence – National Preparedness, special audit report, English abstract, Abstract, PDF page 9 (report page 101), human-capital finding, 12 Nov 2024
National AI Program, second phase (Government Decision 173, 24 February 2023)
A part of the programme. The decision instructed the Finance Ministry to allocate commitment authority of up to NIS 500 million for the Telem bodies to use in 2023–2026; the partner agreement for this phase was signed only in September 2024 and runs 2024–2027 (Hebrew report, page 40). The Innovation Authority's release of 17 September 2024 describes the same phase as running to 2027 with NIS 500 million. Commitment authority is a ceiling on commitments, not an appropriation of payments.
Approved by the government: the second phase’s 500 million ILS commitment ceiling, January 2023 to December 2026. Printed as “NIS 500 million”. About $136M at the reference rate of 24 Feb 2023. In February 2023, Government Resolution 173 approved an extension to the first phase, approved in August 2021 (the second phase). This resolution included a directive to the Ministry of Finance to allocate a budget not exceeding NIS 500 million, which will be utilized by Telem Forum entities from 2023 to 2026.
Office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel, State Comptroller of Israel, Annual Report on Cyber and Information Systems (November 2024): Artificial Intelligence – National Preparedness, special audit report, English abstract, Abstract, PDF page 4 (report page 96), background, 12 Nov 2024
Announced: 500 million ILS, 17 Sep 2024. Printed as “NIS 500 million”. The Innovation Authority's launch release for the second phase, running to 2027; the same NIS 500 million as Decision 173 but over the partner agreement's later period (2024–2027) rather than the decision's 2023–2026. This phase will run until 2027 with an allocated budget of NIS 500 million.
Israel Innovation Authority, Israel Innovation Authority: launch of the second phase of Israel's National Artificial Intelligence Program, second paragraph, 17 Sep 2024
National AI supercomputer: Innovation Authority call for proposals won by Nebius (government grant)
A part of the programme. The grant is the government's share of a project the Authority puts at more than NIS 500 million; the access programme opened on 18 January 2026 for 1,000 B200 accelerators. The Comptroller (Hebrew report, page 24) records that in February 2024 the Telem Forum moved executive responsibility, and the budgets needed for a civilian training infrastructure, from MAFAT to the Innovation Authority after MAFAT's component was not completed, while the Authority's May 2025 release presents the supercomputer as the start of the second phase; which phase's money funds the grant is unverified. No act appropriates the grant separately, so the line carries no budget, only the award.
Committed: 160 million ILS, 14 May 2025. Printed as “מענק ממשלתי בגובה 160 מיליון ש"ח”. Grant committed when Nebius won the call; an award, not a payment. The English release words it as 'NIS 160 million in government support' within 'an investment exceeding NIS 500 million'. ההכרזה מסמלת את סיומה של עבודת מטה משמעותית שהובילה להשקעה של מעל חצי מיליארד ש"ח ומתוכם מענק ממשלתי בגובה 160 מיליון ש"ח. (The announcement marks the conclusion of significant staff work that led to an investment of more than half a billion shekels, of which a government grant of NIS 160 million.)
Israel Innovation Authority, רשות החדשנות: חברת נביוס נבחרה להקים את מחשב העל הלאומי (14 May 2025), third paragraph
Preliminary AI Programme 2026 of the National AI Headquarters, Prime Minister's Office (Government Decision 4121, 17 May 2026), with the academic compute-access allocation of Decision 3592 (4 December 2025)
A budget covering more than the AI programme. The successor to the Telem programme: Decision 3375 (21 September 2025) set up a National AI Headquarters in the Prime Minister's Office, Decision 4121 gave it a preliminary programme whose largest item is supercomputing capacity of at least 5,000 GPUs a year in 2027–2032, and Decision 4255 (16 June 2026) adopted the national strategy. These figures are read from next.obudget.org's verbatim copies of the decisions because gov.il answered every automated request (curl and WebFetch) with HTTP 403; until checked on gov.il they are tier 2 and fill no budget field.
Announced: 2.6 billion ILS, 17 May 2026. Printed as “2,597 מלש"ח”. Cabinet allocation to the National AI HQ for 2026–2032: NIS 396 million in 2026, 741 million in 2027, 292 million in 2028 and 1,168 million in 2029–2032, of which NIS 2,502 million for supercomputing infrastructure. Part of it (NIS 797.5 million from 2027) is moved from Decision 3592's academic allocation, so the two decisions overlap and must not be added. Tier 2 until read on gov.il (dec4121-2026). לטובת יישום החלטה זו יוקצה למטה סך של 2,597 מלש"ח בפריסה המפורטת להלן: ... תשתיות | תשתיות חישוב על | 375 | 667 | 292 | 1,168 | 2,502 ... סה"כ | 396 | 741 | 292 | 1,168 | 2,597 (To implement this decision, NIS 2,597 million will be allocated to the HQ in the following schedule: ... Infrastructure | supercomputing infrastructure | 375 | 667 | 292 | 1,168 | 2,502 ... Total | 396 | 741 | 292 | 1,168 | 2,597)
Prime Minister's Office (Government Secretariat); copy read on next.obudget.org, החלטת ממשלה 4121: תוכנית ראשונית לבינה מלאכותית 2026 והרשאה לפי חוק נכסי המדינה ותיקון החלטות ממשלה (text as mirrored by next.obudget.org), section 6(a) and its table, 17 May 2026
Announced: 1.29 billion ILS, 4 Dec 2025. Printed as “1,290 מיליון ש"ח”. Cabinet allocation to the Planning and Budgeting Committee for academic access to supercomputing, 2026–2030 (the decision's own annual schedule sums to NIS 1,288.2 million). Decision 4121 later cut 2028 to NIS 230 million, deleted 2029–2030 and moved NIS 797.5 million to the HQ. Tier 2 until read on gov.il (dec3592-2025). על מנת להגדיל את נגישות המוסדות להשכלה גבוהה בישראל למשאבי מחשוב על, להקצות לוועדה לתכנון ולתקצוב (להלן – ות"ת) 1,290 מיליון ש"ח בהתאם לפריסה השנתית המפורטת להלן (In order to increase Israeli higher-education institutions' access to supercomputing resources, to allocate to the Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) NIS 1,290 million according to the annual schedule below)
Prime Minister's Office (Government Secretariat); copy read on next.obudget.org, החלטת ממשלה 3592: הגדלת נגישות האקדמיה הישראלית לתשתיות מחשוב (text as mirrored by next.obudget.org), sections 1 and 5, 4 Dec 2025
Annual appropriation: 40 million ILS, 2 Nov 2026. Printed as “40030000.0”. Budget item 04-52-17 'מטה לבינה מלאכותית' (AI Headquarters), original 2026 allocation in the Finance Ministry's budget data as served by next.obudget.org (civic platform, tier 2); revised to 41,284,000 with no execution recorded as of 2 November 2026. The item does not yet show the NIS 396 million that Decision 4121 allocates for 2026. code=00045217 | net_allocated=40030000.0 | net_executed=None | net_revised=41284000.0 | title=מטה לבינה מלאכותית | year=2026 (budget item 00045217 'AI Headquarters', 2026: allocated 40,030,000; executed none; revised 41,284,000)
Public Knowledge Workshop (HaSadna), from Ministry of Finance budget files, next.obudget.org (Public Knowledge Workshop), state budget item 00045217 'מטה לבינה מלאכותית', 2026, row code=00045217, year=2026, 2 Nov 2026
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State Comptroller of Israel, digital library (library.mevaker.gov.il): Special report 'ההיערכות הלאומית בתחום הבינה המלאכותית' in the November 2024 cyber and information-systems annual report: full Hebrew report (46 pp.), the report page's key-data panel, and the English abstract (16 pp.); multinational parallel audit on government AI preparedness, 9 June 2026 (Hebrew report, 137 pp., catalogue 2026-S-0015). Approvals (Decision 212: about NIS 550 million, 2021–2023; Decision 173: up to NIS 500 million commitment authority, 2023–2026; together about NIS 1 billion) and first-phase 'realisation' to December 2023 (NIS 220 million; by component HPC 30/270, NLP 138/180, human capital 34/62, regulation 4/4), defined to include unpaid commitments; the Telem Forum's forecasts (NIS 520–530 million of the first phase realised by end-2024; NIS 50–70 million of the second in 2024) and the Authority's expectation of 30–40% of the second phase by end-2025, all forecasts. The 2026 parallel audit restates the 2024 findings and adds no Israeli execution figure. No expenditure or payment figure. State Comptroller of Israel, digital library (library.mevaker.gov.il), 2 Nov 2026
Israel Innovation Authority (innovationisrael.org.il): Releases of 17 Sep 2024 (second phase), 14 May 2025 (supercomputer award, English and Hebrew), 18 Jan 2026 (supercomputer access); 'National Program for Artificial Intelligence – Program and Snapshot', April 2025 (83 pp.); Innovation Report 2026 appendices (2025 activity: grants approved by fund; status of the 2025 work plan; 2026 work plans), page dated 31 May 2026, including its table images; minutes of the Authority's council meeting of 3 Aug 2025 (published June 2026). Envelope (NIS 500 million to 2027), the NIS 160 million supercomputer grant award, NIS 90 million planned for Moonshots, grants approved by fund (no AI-programme row), and a work-plan table marking the AI programme's goals met or partly met. No payment or expenditure figure for the programme or the grant. Israel Innovation Authority (innovationisrael.org.il), 2 Nov 2026
State budget data, Ministry of Finance files as served by next.obudget.org (civic platform; tier 2): SQL query of all budget item titles 2020–2026 containing מלאכותית, תל"ם, מחשב-על/מחשב על, HPC, מדע(י) הנתונים or עתיר ביצועים; all items of the Innovation Authority program 38-30, 2021–2026; government-decision texts 4121 (17 May 2026) and 3592 (4 Dec 2025); procurement and support records for Nebius Israel Ltd (company 516517307). Only the Prime Minister's Office AI Headquarters items (04-52-17: 2026 allocation 40,030,000, revised 41,284,000, no execution yet; manpower item 04-51-01-06 at zero) and a zero-valued Ministry of Science item 'פרוייקטים פורום תל"ם' (19-40-01-35, 2022–2024). The Telem programme and the supercomputer grant have no item of their own; Innovation Authority items are by division ('arena'), not programme. No contract or support payment to Nebius Israel is recorded. State budget data, Ministry of Finance files as served by next.obudget.org (civic platform; tier 2), 2 Nov 2026
Israel open-data portal, Ministry of Finance datasets (data.gov.il): All 60 Ministry of Finance datasets, including the quarterly unaudited budget-execution estimates through 30 June 2025. Budget and execution files to 2015 at item level and summary-level quarterly execution estimates to 30 June 2025; nothing at programme level for AI. Israel open-data portal, Ministry of Finance datasets (data.gov.il), 2 Nov 2026
gov.il: government decisions, Finance Ministry budget books and releases: Decision pages dec212_2021, dec173_2023, dec3375_2025, dec4255_2026, dec4121-2026. Not opened: every request (curl with a generic browser User-Agent, and WebFetch) received HTTP 403 behind a Cloudflare challenge, which was not bypassed. Decisions 212 and 173 are cited through the Comptroller; 4121 and 3592 were read through next.obudget.org's copies. gov.il: government decisions, Finance Ministry budget books and releases, 2 Nov 2026
Knesset (fs.knesset.gov.il; main.knesset.gov.il Research and Information Center): Protocol no. 9 of the Science and Technology Committee's subcommittee on AI and advanced technologies, 15 Jan 2025 (the National AI Program's director among those present); Research and Information Center summary 'National strategies and programs for artificial intelligence', 11 Apr 2024. The protocol records no government spending figure (a guest from INSS said the supercomputer tender was budgeted at about NIS 290 million; not a government figure). The research summary puts the dedicated budget at about NIS 1 billion in two phases. No payment figure. Knesset (fs.knesset.gov.il; main.knesset.gov.il Research and Information Center), 2 Nov 2026
Israel's National AI Directorate, Prime Minister's Office (release via PR Newswire): Release of 13 Aug 2026 on the national AI action plan under Decision 4255. Targets (100,000-accelerator computing base, an initial 5,000-accelerator buildout, a domestic quantum computer); no budget or spending figure. Israel's National AI Directorate, Prime Minister's Office (release via PR Newswire), 2 Nov 2026
Still open
Read Decisions 4121 (dec4121-2026) and 3592 (dec3592-2025) on gov.il, which refused automated requests, and confirm the NIS 2,597 million and NIS 1,290 million against the official text before either figure is promoted to tier 1.
Whether the National AI Headquarters' budget item 04-52-17 has received any of the NIS 396 million Decision 4121 allocates for 2026 (its revised 2026 figure stood at NIS 41.284 million on 2 November 2026): unverified.
No body publishes payments under the Telem partner agreements or the NIS 160 million supercomputer grant; a freedom-of-information request to the Innovation Authority (the programme's administration) is the remaining route to a paid figure.
Which phase's money funds the supercomputer grant (the first phase's HPC component transferred from MAFAT, or the second phase) is unverified.
The Comptroller's chart 14 component values sum to NIS 207.0 million against NIS 220 million in its text; the gap is unexplained.
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