North Region Industrial Establishment / Relocation Track (Directive 4.87)

North Region Industrial Establishment / Relocation (Directive 4.87)

Supports establishment, relocation, and expansion of industrial plants in northern Israeli communities through capital assistance.

Directive 4.87 — Track for Encouragement of Establishment, Relocation or Expansion of Industrial Plants in Northern Region Villages — is a new capital-grant programme published and effective 11 May 2026, operated by the Ministry of Economy and Industry's Authority for Investments and Development. It was designed specifically as a complementary track to the Encouragement of Capital Investments Law (ECIL): industrial plants in northern Israeli villages or industrial zones that fall outside ECIL eligibility criteria can apply here for capital investment support covering establishment, expansion, or relocation from non-national-priority areas. The programme is part of Israel's broader northern-region economic recovery package, which spans dozens of tracks and is understood to represent over NIS 610 million in total state commitments across the north plan.

Eligibility is restricted to for-profit industrial plants registered and operating in Israel that will operate in villages or industrial zones of the northern region listed in Appendix 5, and that do not qualify for grants or benefits under ECIL. Plants that do qualify under ECIL must use that framework instead. Exact grant rates and award ceilings are set out in the Directive 4.87 PDF (11 May 2026) and its Summary, which were not fully extracted at ingest; applicants should obtain and review those documents directly. The current application cycle has a hard submission deadline of 7 July 2026 at 13:00 Israel time, and is operated as a single cycle.

Applications are submitted via the Investment Authority portal (gov.il/he/pages/grant-04-87). Required supporting documents include the Managers' Declaration (Appendix 1), a detailed business plan (Appendix 2), a beneficiary opening/updating request (Appendix 3), a progress report form (Appendix 4), and a financial risk rating (Appendix 6). Applicants must verify their village or industrial zone appears in Appendix 5 before proceeding. Competitive applications will demonstrate investment scale, employment creation, and alignment with northern-region development objectives articulated in Government north-plan decisions.