How we check the information on this site
israeliconsulates.us is an independent directory of Israel’s consular offices in the United States. It is not run by Israel’s government or by any of its offices, and it cannot file or book anything. This page explains where each fact comes from and what we do when the official pages disagree.
Where the information comes from
- The official pages of the nine offices on embassies.gov.il: the Embassy’s consular department in Washington and the eight consulates general, each with its contact page, its list of states, its service pages and its notices.
- A keyword study made for this site, with search volumes from Google Ads, which decides the pages and the order of the guides.
- The Hague Conference’s list of U.S. apostille authorities, for the state pages.
- Press reports from 2016 for the closing of the Philadelphia consulate.
- Google’s business listings, for reviews and for addresses that differ from the official ones.
Dated copies
Every official page we cite is saved on the day we read it. The current version of the site rests on copies made on 13 November 2026, and the pages that depend on them show that date at the top. Where a page says when it was last updated, we use that date, not the date we read it.
Some Israeli government sites, gov.il among them, block automated reading from our server. We do not cite what we could not read: the consular fee chart and the ETA-IL site are linked, and the amounts we give are the ones the missions print on their own pages.
When official pages disagree
When we can date both pages, the newer one decides and we say so; when we cannot, we publish both, each with its link. The site carries 10 of these today. Houston, for example, still lists visiting hours on its contact page while its notice says it receives no visitors; the Texas page sets out both.
The contradictions published today
Each one sits on the page where it changes what you do; the first page is linked here.
- Houston: visiting hours on one page, no visitors on its notice
- Boston’s two versions of its new address
- North Carolina, on the Embassy’s list and in Atlanta’s region
- Kentucky: three offices to choose from, and Atlanta’s region
- West Virginia, on the Embassy’s list and on New York’s note
- Pennsylvania: New York’s list, and New York or DC on the Embassy’s pages
- California split with no line published
- Two end dates for entering Israel on a foreign passport
- Chicago: email only, and a phone number on Google
- The Philadelphia consulate that Google still shows
Which office serves your state
Each office publishes its list of states, and every state page follows it.
Where the lists overlap or leave a place out, the state page says so: California has no published line between San Francisco and Los Angeles, Kentucky residents are offered three offices, and four territories appear on no list, so we name the nearest office in a straight line and call it our reading.
Road distances and driving times come from OpenStreetMap routing (OSRM), at posted speed limits and without traffic; straight-line distances are calculated from the coordinates of each city and office.
Fees and reviews
Fees on fees and requirements and on each office page come from that office’s own page, checked against the text we saved. An office page never quotes another office’s fee.
Reviews are read on Google on the date given on each office page and rewritten in our words, the critical ones included.
What we have not done
We have not visited the offices or called them. The facts here come from what the offices and Israeli and U.S. authorities publish, with Google’s listings for the reviews and OpenStreetMap for the distances. If a page here and an office disagree, the office decides.
Corrections
If you find an error, write to [email protected] with the page and the official source that contradicts it. The legal notice says who runs the site.