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Israel food label requirements for packaging

Pre-packed food sold in Israel is labelled under the Consumer Protection Order (Labelling and Packaging of Food Products) 5759-1998, which makes Israeli Standard SI 1145 (Labelling of pre-packed food) binding, and under the Public Health Protection (Food) (Nutritional Labelling) Regulations 5778-2017 for the nutrition table and the red symbols. The 10th Amendment of the Public Health Protection (Food) Law brings in the EU's Regulation 1169/2011: food businesses may follow it since 1 January 2025, and it binds everyone from 1 January 2028. Here is what goes on the pack, and how to lay it out.

Checked: 26 October 2026

Mandatory items

The mandatory particulars (SI 1145)

The name of the food; the ingredients in descending order of weight; the allergens; the net quantity in metric units; the name and address of the manufacturer — and for imports, of the Israeli importer; the country of manufacture; the date mark with the storage conditions it depends on; and a batch mark. The marking must be clear, legible and in a colour that stands apart from its background.

Hebrew first

Every mandatory particular is in Hebrew. Other languages (English, Arabic, Russian…) may be added, but their letters may not be larger than the Hebrew. Imported goods may carry a Hebrew sticker over the original label, firmly stuck and showing every mandatory particular.

Hebrew reads right to left: set the Hebrew text blocks right-aligned, keep numbers, units and barcodes in their own left-to-right runs, and check that the client's Hebrew copy is pasted word for word, never retyped.

The nutrition table

In Hebrew, framed, prominent, per 100 g for solids or 100 ml for liquids, in the order of Schedule 2 (Regulation 8): energy (kcal), total fat, saturated fatty acids, trans fatty acids, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrates, total sugars, teaspoons of sugar (in bold — one teaspoon for every 4 g), proteins. Its letters are at least 120% of the minimum size SI 1145 sets for the ingredients. When the pack has no room for a table, the same values may run in lines.

Exempt from all nutrition labelling (Regulation 3(b)): drinking and sparkling water, spices, coffee, tea and herbal infusions, yeast, baking powder, tabletop sweeteners, flavour and colour extracts.

The red symbols on the front

Since 1 January 2020 (final thresholds since 2021), a food carries a red symbol on the front for each nutrient over the limit (Regulation 5): sodium above 400 mg per 100 g (300 mg per 100 ml), total sugars above 10 g per 100 g (5 g per 100 ml), saturated fat above 4 g per 100 g (3 g per 100 ml). One food can carry one, two or three symbols.

The symbol is a red ring with an icon and Hebrew wording, exactly as drawn in Schedule 1: red is Pantone 485 or 0c 95m 100y 0k, lettering and outlines white (Regulation 9). Its diameter grows with the front panel: at least 15 mm up to 40 cm², 18 mm up to 60 cm², 20 mm up to 100 cm², 25 mm up to 200 cm², 30 mm up to 300 cm², 35 mm above. Two or three symbols stand in a row or column with touching outlines (Schedule 4).

No red symbol on: dietary supplements, infant formula, single-ingredient foods, alcoholic drinks, salt, vegetable oils and olive oil to their standards (Regulation 6). Packs whose front is 25 cm² or less may put the symbols elsewhere on the pack.

The green symbol and kashrut

The green symbol is voluntary. The Ministry of Health lets it go on foods that meet its criteria by category (whole grains, legumes, plain dairy, fresh fish…, few or no additives) — and never on a food that carries a red symbol. Use the ministry's file, at the size it gives.

Kashrut is not required by law, but presenting food as kosher without a certificate is an offence (Prohibition of Kashrut Fraud Law 5743-1983). The law has the Chief Rabbinate Council or an authorised local rabbi give the kashrut certificate; the mark on the pack is that certifier's own artwork, placed as supplied, with nothing redrawn.

Laying it out in Drint

1. Drint does not yet check Israeli label rules — there is no Israeli label kit in the studio. Lay the label out by hand:
2. Paste the client's Hebrew text word for word as a text block on the back panel — Drint does not translate.
3. Build the nutrition table as a framed Hebrew table from the client's figures, per 100 g or 100 ml, in the order above, with the sugar teaspoons in bold.
4. Place each red symbol from the Ministry of Health's graphic file as an image, at least the diameter the front panel needs — never redraw it.
5. Leave a frame for the kashrut mark and drop in the certifier's file the client sends.
6. Preflight in Export lists text that is too small to print.

Lay out the label in Drint

Questions

A summary written to design packs, not legal advice. Check the current texts — the Nutritional Labelling Regulations on the Ministry of Health's site, SI 1145 at the Standards Institution of Israel, and the client's kashrut certificate — with your client or a food regulatory consultant before printing.