Registry entry

Israel — Application for Registration of a Company (Form 1 / טופס 1)

The Israeli Corporations Authority's (Ministry of Justice) Form 1 (טופס 1, Regulation 1), 'Application for Registration of a Company', filed with the Registrar of Companies under section 8 of the Companies Law, 5759-1999. Opens Israel's Business Formation vertical (2 of 6, combined with the already-modelled Taxes vertical, `il/tax-authority/1301-personal-details`). Scoped to the simplest coherent pathway: a single natural-person founder who is simultaneously the company's sole initial applicant/shareholder, filing a private company limited by shares with one class of shares. Out of scope: a corporate (rather than natural-person) founder, multiple founders/shareholders (the form's own shareholder-declaration block and share-allocation table are open, many-row repeating structures; GovSchema's array/repeating-group proposal, GSP-0009, is not yet part of the accepted v0.3 specification, so this version models exactly one shareholder rather than fabricating a row cap), multiple distinct share classes (the form's own share-capital table is likewise a repeating table, collapsed here to one class), and the ambiguous single-checkbox row referencing section 175 of the Companies Law (a source-extraction artifact left this row's own heading text partially garbled in the underlying .doc file; rather than fabricate its meaning, it is disclosed here as an unresolved gap for a future review with cleaner source access). This document describes the form only; it does not submit anything on the founder's behalf, and does not imply endorsement by the State of Israel, the Ministry of Justice, or the Israeli Corporations Authority. GovSchema is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the State of Israel.

Registry entry

il/corporations-authority/company-registration-form-1

Jurisdiction
Israel · national
Version
1.0.0
Verification
draft

Authoritative source Form 1 (טופס 1, תקנה 1), "Application for Registration of a Company" (בקשה לרישום חברה), filed under section 8 of the Companies Law, 5759-1999

Machine access

Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

59 fields, read from the published schema.json, with names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.

Fields

  • proposedCompanyNamePrimary string required

    The founder's first-choice proposed company name.

  • proposedCompanyNameAlternate2 string optional

    Second-choice proposed company name, used if the Registrar rejects the first choice.

  • proposedCompanyNameAlternate3 string optional

    Third-choice proposed company name, used if the Registrar rejects the first two choices.

  • founderLastName string required

    Family name of the natural-person founder submitting this application.

  • founderFirstName string required

    Given name of the founder.

  • founderIdNumber string required

    National identity number (Teudat Zehut) of the founder.

  • founderCountry string required

    Country of the founder's own address ("שמענו" — "our address").

  • founderCity string required

    יישוב

  • founderStreet string required

    רחוב

  • founderHouseNumber string required

    מס' בית

  • founderApartmentNumber string optional

    מס' דירה

  • founderPostalCode string optional

    מיקוד

  • founderPhone string optional

    טלפון

  • registeredOfficeCity string required

    Locality of the proposed company's registered office in Israel.

  • registeredOfficeStreet string required

    רחוב

  • registeredOfficeHouseNumber string required

    מס' בית

  • registeredOfficeApartmentNumber string optional

    מס' דירה

  • registeredOfficePostalCode string optional

    מיקוד

  • registeredOfficeCareOfName string optional

    Full name of the person the registered office is c/o, if the office is not held directly in the company's own name.

  • registeredOfficePoBoxLocality string optional

    P.O. box and locality, if the registered office receives mail via a P.O. box.

  • companyEmail string optional

    The proposed company's email address (not mandatory per the form's own instruction).

    pattern
  • companyPhone string optional

    The proposed company's phone number (not mandatory per the form's own instruction).

  • companyPurposeType enum required

    Which of the Companies Law section 32 purpose pathways the company adopts.

    enum: LAWFUL_BUSINESS_UNRESTRICTED | LAWFUL_BUSINESS_EXCEPT_LISTED | SPECIFIED_BUSINESSES_ONLY | PUBLIC_PURPOSE_NO_PROFIT_DISTRIBUTION
  • companyPurposeDetail string optional

    Detail supporting the chosen purpose type: the excluded businesses (per §32(2)), the specified businesses (per §32(3)), or the public purposes (per the fourth option), as applicable. Not required when the company adopts the unrestricted §32(1) pathway, which the form itself leaves undetailed.

  • shareTransferRestricted boolean required

    Whether the articles of association restrict the right to transfer the company's shares.

  • shareTransferRestrictionSections string optional

    Article sections stating the share-transfer restriction.

  • publicOfferingProhibited boolean required

    Whether the articles of association prohibit a public offering of the company's shares or bonds.

  • publicOfferingProhibitionSections string optional

    Article sections stating the public-offering prohibition.

  • shareholderCountLimited boolean required

    Whether the articles of association limit the number of shareholders to fifty (excluding company employees).

  • shareholderCountLimitationSections string optional

    Article sections stating the fifty-shareholder limitation.

  • sharesHaveParValue boolean required

    Whether the registered shares carry a stated par (nominal) value (true) or are no-par-value shares (false).

  • registeredShareCount integer required

    Total number of shares in the company's registered share capital.

    range: 1–∞
  • registeredShareCapitalTotalValue number optional

    Total par value, in New Israeli Shekel, of the registered share capital.

    range: 0–∞
  • shareTypeName string required

    Name/type of the (single, in this version's scope) class of shares.

  • shareParValuePerShare number optional

    Par value of a single share of this type, in New Israeli Shekel.

    range: 0–∞
  • allocatedShareCount integer required

    Number of shares allocated to shareholders out of the registered share capital.

    range: 1–∞
  • allocatedShareCapitalTotalValue number optional

    Total par value, in New Israeli Shekel, of the allocated share capital.

    range: 0–∞
  • founderShareholdingType enum required

    Whether the founder holds their allocated shares directly (ordinary) or in trust for another beneficial owner. Scoped to the single founder/shareholder this version models.

    enum: ORDINARY | TRUST
  • founderSharesAllocated integer required

    Number of shares of the class above allocated to the founder.

    range: 1–∞
  • shareholderLiabilityType enum required

    Whether shareholder liability is limited by shares, or unlimited (in which case the company must be a special professional company or another described company type).

    enum: LIMITED_BY_SHARES | UNLIMITED
  • unlimitedCompanyTypeDescription string optional

    Description of the unlimited company's type: a special professional company (accountant, lawyer, private investigators) or another company type, as specified.

  • legalActionLimitationsExist boolean required

    Whether the articles of association contain limitations on the company's legal actions.

  • legalActionLimitationSections string optional

    Article sections stating the legal-action limitations.

  • signingRightsSections string optional

    Article sections detailing signing-rights provisions, if any.

  • generalManagerName string required

    Full name of the company's General Manager.

  • generalManagerIdNumber string required

    מספר זיהוי

  • generalManagerAddress string required

    מען

  • generalManagerEmail string optional

    דוא"ל

    pattern
  • generalManagerPhone string optional

    טלפון

  • authorizedReportingOfficerName string required

    Name of the officer authorized to report to the Registrar on the company's behalf under section 39 of the Law.

  • authorizedReportingOfficerIdNumber string required

    ת.ז.

  • authorizedReportingOfficerPosition string required

    תפקיד בחברה

  • founderHasIsraeliId boolean required

    Whether the founder signing the first-shareholder declaration holds an Israeli identity card (Teudat Zehut). If not, a passport number/issuing country and a certified copy must be provided instead.

  • founderPassportNumber string optional

    מספר דרכון

  • founderPassportIssuingCountry string optional

    המדינה בה הוצא הדרכון

  • founderDeclarationDate date required

    Date the founder signs the first-shareholder declaration.

  • certifyingAttorneyName string required

    Name of the attorney certifying the founder's signature and declaration, mandatory on every filing under this form.

  • certifyingAttorneyLicenseNumber string required

    מספר רישיון

  • certifyingAttorneyCertificationDate date required

    Date of the attorney's certification.

Verification record

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice.

Current claim

  • status: draft
  • verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
  • verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-15

Why this schema and why now (GOV-3087, following on from GOV-3078)

The prior GOV-3078 cycle ("GovSchema Standard Research") screened all of Israel's then-unscreened verticals and found Form 1 (Application for Company Registration) the strongest of three leads by field richness and native form-field markup (154 FORMTEXT + 19 FORMCHECKBOX fields in the raw .doc), but deferred authoring given that cycle's one-cycle effort budget already spent on opening Nepal. This cycle (GOV-3087) independently re-fetched and re-verified the source from scratch — not trusted as pre-recorded — before authoring against it.

Sources examined

  • Document (id, version): il/corporations-authority/company-registration-form-1 / 1.0.0
  • Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
  • Authority: Registrar of Companies, Israeli Corporations Authority (Ministry of Justice).
  • Primary source:
    • Direct .doc: https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/servicequestionnaire/company_registration/he/companyregistrationform2%20(2).doc — fetched via plain curl: HTTP 200, content-length 441,856 bytes, sha256 302bb540d3c970d7fe9bd5f53f03221ee6ebbfdb334fc55cb2e808b3c9feada5. No login/CAPTCHA gate on this direct BlobFolder URL.
    • Magic-byte check confirmed a genuine legacy OLE/Compound-File-Binary Word .doc (D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1), not a renamed or mismatched file — this registry has previously been burned by a URL serving unrelated content under a plausible-looking filename (see lk/bnr.wp.gov.lk's Philippines-BNR mismatch, GOV-3062's correction to the Sri Lanka Business Formation entry), so this check was done before any extraction was trusted.
    • Extracted via the word-extractor npm package (v1.0.4)'s getBody() API, which recovers the full run of table-cell and paragraph text in document order, including every FORMTEXT field's literal blank-run placeholder. This library exposes no bookmark/FFData API for legacy binary .doc (unlike .docx's w:sdt content controls, which several other schemas in this registry have parsed directly), so this document's field identity, scope, and grouping were derived from the label text and table structure immediately adjacent to each blank in the extracted body — the same label-proximity technique already established in this registry for other non-AcroForm/flat sources. Every field's sourceRef quotes the governing Hebrew label verbatim.

Scope decisions

Form 1 is a general-purpose company-registration application supporting any number of founders/shareholders, multiple share classes, and both natural-person and corporate founders. Modeling all of that would require open, many-row repeating tables (the shareholder/share-allocation table, the share-capital-by-class table, and the founder-declaration block, which the extracted body shows repeated 4 times in the source's own blank template). GovSchema's array/repeating-group proposal, GSP-0009, is not yet part of the accepted v0.3 specification. Following the identical precedent set by pk/secp/company-incorporation-single-member-company (which collapsed a wide multi-subscriber/multi-UBO table to a Single Member Company's exactly-one-person pathway rather than fabricate a row cap), this version is scoped to:

  1. A single natural-person founder who is simultaneously the company's sole applicant and sole initial shareholder. The form's own alternative corporate-founder path ("שם התאגיד" / "מס' תאגיד") is out of scope.
  2. One class of shares, collapsing the source's own share-capital table (four blank rows in the template) and share-allocation table to a single shareTypeName/shareParValuePerShare pair.
  3. sharesHaveParValue models the form's own real either/or distinction — "\_\_\_ מניות ללא ערך נקוב / בסך כולל של \_\_\_ ₪" ("\_\_\_ shares with no par value / with total value of \_\_\_ ₪") — as a boolean gate for the value-dependent fields (registeredShareCapitalTotalValue, shareParValuePerShare, allocatedShareCapitalTotalValue), since the form itself presents this as a real fork, not an invented one.
  4. companyPurposeType models the form's own four-option §32 purpose block as an enum; companyPurposeDetail is gated requiredWhen companyPurposeType notEquals LAWFUL_BUSINESS_UNRESTRICTED, since three of the four options (§32(2), §32(3), and the public-purpose option) each print their own blank detail lines while the unrestricted §32(1) option prints none.
  5. The three restriction/no-restriction blocks (share-transfer restriction, public-offering prohibition, fifty-shareholder cap) each model the form's own "mark the applicable alternative and detail the governing articles sections" instruction as a boolean plus a requiredWhen-gated sections field — the same pattern used three times running in the source itself.
  6. One row is disclosed as out of scope rather than guessed at. A checkbox row's own heading, referencing section 175 of the Companies Law (a balance-sheet-attachment exemption contingent on the three restriction checkboxes above being ticked a certain way), came back from word-extractor with a garbled, partially duplicated text fragment ("הור הוב הוראות בתקנון לפי סעיף 175 לחוק") that could not be confidently reconstructed into a single, unambiguous field without fabricating its exact semantics. This registry's convention favors disclosing a genuine extraction gap over inventing a plausible-sounding field; a future cycle with cleaner source access (e.g. a rendered visual pass, the technique already used elsewhere in this registry for RTL/garbled text) should resolve it.
  7. founderHasIsraeliId models a real either/or distinction the form's own prose draws ("היה החותם מי שאינו בעל ת\"ז ישראלית, יציין מספר דרכונו..." — "should the signer be someone who does not hold an Israeli ID, they shall state their passport number...") gating founderPassportNumber/founderPassportIssuingCountry and the nonIsraeliIdCertifiedCopy document — unlike cases elsewhere in this registry where a conditional was deliberately not modeled for lack of a real boolean gate on the source (e.g. il/tax-authority/1301-personal-details's residentialAddress).
  8. The certifying-attorney fields and attorneyCertificationDeclaration document are modeled required: true (not gated behind a boolean), since this form provides no alternative unwitnessed filing pathway — the attorney's certification is mandatory on every filing under this form, unlike e.g. il/tax-authority/1301-personal-details's paid-preparer block, which the source form itself makes optional.
  9. documents[] (5 entries) models the two plain attachment checkboxes ("ומצרף בזה") as supporting-evidence (the directors'-fitness declaration is a distinct standalone document this form only references by title, not text this form itself states verbatim), the founder's own sworn first-shareholder declaration and the attorney's own certification as attestation entries with statement text quoted verbatim from the extracted body, and the non-Israeli-ID passport copy as an identity-document entry gated on founderHasIsraeliId.

Conformance fixtures (Phase 3)

7 fixtures committed under conformance/il/corporations-authority/company-registration-form-1/1.0.0/: 2 valid scenarios plus 5 mutation-control fixtures, each derived from a valid fixture by a single targeted mutation. All 7 were run against a from-scratch, ephemeral field-by-field conformance checker (derived directly from this schema's own fields[]/documents[]/requiredWhen conditions, not committed to the repo) before being finalized:

  • valid-limited-by-shares-no-par-value.json (a single Israeli-ID-holding founder, no-par-value shares, unrestricted §32(1) purpose, limited shareholder liability) — 0 errors.
  • valid-unlimited-professional-non-israeli-founder.json (a non-Israeli-ID founder providing a passport number/country, par-value shares, all three restriction blocks active, unlimited professional-company liability — exercising every optional/conditional field) — 0 errors.
  • mutation-control-missing-required-field.json (drops founderIdNumber) — exactly 1 error.
  • mutation-control-missing-conditional-share-transfer-sections.json (sets shareTransferRestricted to true without shareTransferRestrictionSections) — exactly 1 error.
  • mutation-control-missing-conditional-passport-fields.json (sets founderHasIsraeliId to false, supplies founderPassportIssuingCountry and the nonIsraeliIdCertifiedCopy document, but omits founderPassportNumber) — exactly 1 error.
  • mutation-control-missing-required-document.json (drops the founderDeclaration document) — exactly 1 error.
  • mutation-control-invalid-enum-shareholder-liability-type.json (sets shareholderLiabilityType to PARTIALLY_LIMITED, not in the enum) — exactly 1 error.

The same checker script confirmed every requiredWhen field/document reference in this schema resolves to a real field name (0 dangling references).

Structural validation

  • node tools/validate.mjs registry/il/corporations-authority/company-registration-form-1/1.0.0/schema.jsonok.
  • node tools/validate-ajv.mjs registry/il/corporations-authority/company-registration-form-1/1.0.0/schema.json (ajv 2020-12 against spec/v0.3) — ok.
  • Full-registry re-run after adding this document: node tools/validate.mjs466/466; node tools/validate-ajv.mjs466/466.
  • node tools/verify-sources.mjs — clean run against the full registry including this document's .doc source URL.
  • npm run build-index re-run in tools/govschema-client/ to regenerate registry-index.json with this document included.

Maturity

structural-reference: the source .doc's own printed structure is fully transcribed from the genuine, currently-served official form, scoped to a single-founder/single-shareholder pathway, but no live filing through the Registrar's own channels was attempted. GovSchema is an independent, non-profit standards body and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the State of Israel, the Ministry of Justice, or the Israeli Corporations Authority.

View the raw record (VERIFICATION.md)

Version history

  • 1.0.0 draft latest this page has verification record schema.json

Independent and non-affiliated

GovSchema is an independent, open-source project. This reference is not produced, reviewed, or endorsed by Registrar of Companies, Israeli Corporations Authority (Ministry of Justice) or any government. The authoritative source is always the live government form and its official instructions.