Prices in Israel 🇮🇱

In Israel, mobile data costs $0.02, beer costs $1.46 and diesel costs $2.65. That is 8 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in ILS, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Israel combines high wages with a small, geographically isolated market and heavy reliance on imports, and the cost of living has been a live political issue since the 2011 street protests over the price of cottage cheese. VAT is 18% and applies to food at the full rate, with no reduced band, which is unusual among high-income countries and pushes grocery prices up relative to Europe. Electricity is the counterweight: offshore natural gas discovered in the last fifteen years now generates most of the country's power, and it shows in a household tariff below the European average.

What things cost

Item	USD	Local	Work time
Big Mac	$6.36	20 ILS	19 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)	no data
Cappuccino	no data
Milk (1 litre)	no data
Eggs (dozen)	no data
Apples (1 kg)	no data
Gasoline (1 litre)	no data
Diesel (1 litre)	$2.65	7.92 ILS	8 min
Electricity (100 kWh)	$22.20	66.6 ILS	65 min
Natural gas (100 kWh)	no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)	$10.35	39 ILS	30 min
Beer (330ml)	$1.46	5.52 ILS	4 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)	$16.85	63.48 ILS	49 min
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)	no data
Mobile data (1 GB)	$0.02	—	<1 min
A day's healthy diet	$3.82	13.2 ILS	11 min

Most local-currency figures are printed as the source published them. The cappuccino, milk, egg, apple and petrol rows are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates; the healthy-diet row is converted the other way. A dash means the source publishes dollars and nothing else. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage, the roughest number on this page. See methodology.

How Israel compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Israel is most expensive for diesel, where it ranks 4th out of 49 countries at $2.65, against a global median of $1.55.

It is relatively cheapest for mobile data at $0.02, which is 49th of 49, only 0 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is electricity (100 kWh), at roughly 65 minutes of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently, and that gap is usually the more interesting number.

What the state takes

Standard rate in Israel: 18% VAT. Where these come from.

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Israel prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Israel?

Pricele publishes 8 everyday prices for Israel, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.02, Beer $1.46, Diesel $2.65. All figures are converted to US dollars so countries can be compared directly; the local-currency figure is shown alongside wherever the source published one.

What currency is used in Israel?

Israel uses the ILS. Pricele lists every price in US dollars for comparability, and shows the published local-currency figure next to it where the source gives one rather than back-converting from the dollar price.

What is the cheapest thing on Pricele's Israel list?

Of the 8 items priced for Israel, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.02 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $22.20. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.

Where do Pricele's Israel prices come from?

Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from The Economist Big Mac Index, Jan 2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 17-Aug-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, December 2025, WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), WHO Global Health Observatory, alcohol tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data pricing, 2023 and World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, 2025 (converted at the World Bank official exchange rate). A pair only exists where there is a real sourced number: the table is deliberately sparse rather than padded with estimates, so a missing item usually means the item is not sold that way in Israel.