How much sheltered housing and a nursing home cost: published prices and who helps fund them

Prices of sheltered housing and nursing homes: what the places publish themselves and what they do not, what the law says about the deposit, and who helps fund the stay. We do not calculate a personal co-payment.

According to the Ministry of Health, on a page dated 20.11.2025, a deposit in sheltered housing (דיור מוגן) ranges "from half a million shekels to 2 and even 3 million shekels". Maintenance fees usually start at a few thousand and can reach tens of thousands. A rental route with no deposit is "usually significantly higher than the deposit route". For a private nursing home (בית אבות סיעודי) we found no official price for the public: on pages from 2025 and 2026, operators write about ranges of roughly ILS 8,000 to 28,000 a month. Someone who receives a Ministry of Health code (קוד) pays a co-payment according to their financial situation.

We are an information board. We do not recommend any place and we do not compare places.

What we found on the places' websites

On most of the websites we checked we found no price. We found a monthly price of a specific place on only one website, of a sheltered-housing facility. We found a monthly price of a specific nursing home on no website. The check was partial.

The catalogue has 717 places: sheltered housing, nursing homes and nursing wards, and 119 of them have a type that was not confirmed. 188 of the 717 have a website. These are 128 different websites, because a chain usually has one website. We checked them on 01.11.2026.

15 places publish some amount, and one place of them publishes a monthly price.
27 places: their website has only a general range, not the price of a place.
146 places: we found no amount at all. For 54 of them the website was not read, as explained below.

How we checked: on 100 websites we searched and read up to 3 results per website, so we may have missed pages. On 47 of them the search found no page at all, which means we did not read those websites. The other 28 websites we read in an earlier check. "We did not find" does not mean there is no price list.

What the places publish

The amounts are copied from the places' websites as they are. This is not a recommendation, and we do not verify them. Each row describes a different kind of amount, so the rows cannot be compared with each other.

Achuzat Reim, Ramla: from ILS 5,750, or from ILS 6,750. Sheltered housing, monthly payment only, no deposit. A 1.5-room studio apartment, or a 2-room apartment. Date on the page: no date. The images on the page were uploaded in 2015-2019, so the price may be old.
Tovei Yerushalayim at Golden Hill, Jerusalem: ILS 50,000. A "security" sum (לבטחון) linked to the consumer price index, in a rental route. The monthly price is not shown. Date on the page: no date.
Mishan, a chain: from ILS 290,000. A studio apartment on an entry-fee route, "subject to the regulations". Date on the page: a promotion in a banner on the home page; the file name indicates October 2026.
Achuzat Poleg, Tel Yitzhak: ILS 300,000. An entry payment on a 6-month route. At the end of it the resident tops up to the full deposit, and that deposit is not shown on the page. Date on the page: no date.
Achuzot Rubinstein, chain: up to ILS 69,000. An advance on an apartment in sheltered housing under construction. This is a ceiling on the advance, not a price. Date on the page: no date.
Beit Gil HaZahav, Tel Aviv: ILS 3,000. A one-time registration fee at the end of the trial period. For the monthly payment, see the ranges further down this guide. Date on the page: published in 2024, 2026 in the title.
Hod Denya, Jerusalem: from ILS 1,610,000. Buying a 2-4 room apartment as owned property, registered in the land registry, with no deposit, in a project for ages 60 and over. This is a purchase price, not a deposit and not a monthly payment. Date on the page: no date.

Only the place itself can give the exact price. In sheltered housing the law requires a disclosure document (מסמך גילוי) with the payments. Details in the guide on sheltered housing and nursing homes (in Hebrew).

Ranges that operators write themselves, not the price of a place

The authors are operators who sell the service. The range is a description of the market according to the author, not a price list of a particular home.

Nursing home, per month:

Amal, 2026: between ILS 14,000 and 23,000.
Eshkolot Oranim, 06.08.2026: between ILS 13,000 and about 25,000, on a private route.
Beyahad, 03.05.2026: between ILS 15,000 and 25,000, "and sometimes even more".
Moriah, 2026: between ILS 8,000 and 24,000.
Mul Carmel, 2025: between ILS 12,000 and 25,000, in a private institution.
Mivtach Or, updated in October 2026: in the centre ILS 15,500-26,000, in the north ILS 15,500-20,000, in the south ILS 16,500-26,000. On the home page of the same website, "as of 2025": ILS 18,500-28,000 in the centre and the north, ILS 17,500-28,000 in the south.

Sheltered housing:

Beit Gil HaZahav, published in 2024, with 2026 in the title: on a route with a deposit, per month: "around 5500 – 10,000 ILS". Without a deposit, "to around 20,000 ILS and even more".

What the Sheltered Housing Law says about the money

The details are from the updated text of the law on Nevo, as of 30.09.2026, including the amendments of 2018 and of 2026. The binding text is the official text. On the licence, which the Ministry of Welfare list says has not yet been granted, and on the trial period, see the guide on sheltered housing and nursing homes (in Hebrew).

Protection of the deposit (sections 27 to 27d). The operator may not hold more than 7% of the deposit or ILS 70,000, whichever is lower, unless the operator registered a first mortgage to secure the money. Instead of a mortgage the operator can give a bank guarantee or a guarantee of another authorised body, such as an insurance company, or transfer 40% of the deposit to a trustee. The operator bears the cost, and a resident cannot waive the security (בטוחה, a guarantee that the money will be returned). The rules apply from January 2020 also to earlier contracts. Details and exceptions are in the guide on sheltered housing (in Hebrew).
Indexation (section 28). The amount that the resident is owed from the deposit is returned plus the rise in the consumer price index.
Raising maintenance fees (section 26). The operator may not raise them beyond the rise in the consumer price index, except in line with a change in ongoing operating costs, and even then not beyond the maximum rate set in the agreement.
Erosion of the deposit. Erosion is the amount that comes off the deposit over the years, so not all of it is returned. We found no ceiling on erosion in the law. The percentage and the years are written in the agreement. The Ministry of Health writes about a deduction of 3% a year, and operators' websites also state other rates, for example about 2.5% or between 3 and 4 percent.

The Ministry of Health code

The code is assistance in financing hospitalisation for someone classified as nursing (סיעודי) or mentally frail (תשוש נפש), according to their financial situation. It can be received only in an institution that has an agreement with the Ministry of Health. According to the ministry, "most institutions are under agreement": in the registry of 30.10.2026, 193 of 255 geriatric nursing institutions are marked this way. On commercial websites you may also meet the phrase "בהסדר" ("in arrangement"). The ministry pages we read say "בהסכם" ("in agreement").

In our catalogue, according to the registry: homes with an agreement. In the registry itself: the "in agreement" filter.

Who participates and what is counted. According to Ministry of Health Director General circular 8/2018, those who participate are the patient, the spouse, and sons and daughters from age 21 who live in Israel. A son or daughter who lives abroad is not obligated.

The patient and the spouse: current income, income from real estate, and financial assets, such as savings. For an apartment in which a spouse or dependants do not live, the rent or its value is counted.
Sons and daughters: current income, minus housing expenses. Their savings and their spouses' income are not counted.

According to the circular, the monthly participation will not be less than 37% of the old-age pension for an individual, and it can reach the full price of a hospitalisation day.

Who is paid. The ministry pays the institution directly, and collects the participation from the patient and the family members by standing order (הוראת קבע). According to the Ministry of Health brochure, the institution must supply all the needs of the patient, and it is forbidden to demand money from a patient whose hospitalisation is financed by the ministry, or from the patient's family members. According to the tender, an institution can ask the ministry for approval to charge for additional services, such as a personal television in the room, with written consent. The tender also mentions a retroactive code, up to 60 days back. In that case the institution returns to the family, within 15 days of the code being allocated, what the family paid for that period.

What the ministry pays the institution. This is not the amount the family pays. In the tender of 2024 the tariff is "the price per day of hospitalisation services for a single resident", VAT included. According to the ministry letter of 07.05.2026, from 01.04.2026 a nursing ward in basket 1, basic infrastructure: ILS 539.69 a day. In basket 8, the clusters model: ILS 618.72 a day. A basket is a level defined by the scope and the level of services. There are more tariffs in the letter. They apply only to institutions that joined the new tender.

Sheltered housing and a ward for the frail. The code does not apply to an apartment in sheltered housing or to a ward for the frail (מחלקה לתשושים). A sheltered-housing building that has a nursing ward can have an agreement with the Ministry of Health, and you check this in the registry. In a ward for the frail there is partial assistance from the Ministry of Welfare, through the local authority's welfare office.

Long-term care benefit

The National Insurance Institute (Bituach Leumi) long-term care benefit (גמלת סיעוד) continues, if the other conditions are met, at home, in sheltered housing, and in a ward for the independent or the frail that is licensed by the Ministry of Welfare. It stops in wards supervised by the Ministry of Health, such as nursing and mentally frail wards, and also when a public body finances most of the maintenance costs. Amounts and conditions are in the guide on the long-term care benefit.

The personal calculation

We do not calculate your personal co-payment. For that there is a Ministry of Health nursing-code calculator, and it gives an estimate only. The official amount is set at the District Health Office (lishkat briut). Ministry of Health hotline: ‎*5400. National Insurance Institute, long-term care hotline: ‎*2637.

Places in the catalogue: nursing homes and nursing wards, sheltered housing.