SMS API for Israel: bulk SMS to +972 numbers
Israel
Calling code +972
- Per SMS segment
- $0.03967
- Messages for $100
- 2,520
- Local language
- Hebrew, Arabic and English
- Encoding
- Unicode (UCS-2)
What a bulk SMS send to Israel costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.03967 | $0.07934 |
| 1,000 | $39.67 | $79.34 |
| 10,000 | $396.70 | $793.40 |
| 100,000 | $3,967.00 | $7,934.00 |
Number format in Israel
Mobile numbers in Israel have 9 digits after +972. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (050-234-5678); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +972 50 234 5678.
Alphabet and segments
Text in Hebrew is always Unicode, so a message to Israel written in Hebrew carries 70 characters in one segment and 67 in each part of a longer one. Codes and alerts written in English or plain Latin letters fit 160 characters, which halves the cost of a long notice.
Time zone and timing
Israel changes its clocks: Jerusalem is on UTC+2 in January and UTC+3 in July. 09:00 in Jerusalem is 07:00 UTC in January and an hour earlier in UTC while summer time runs, so give send_at with the local offset (for example +02:00 in winter) and the API does the conversion.
Send to Israel with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (IL) and the price. A delivered or failed event follows on your webhook, and a failed message is refunded.
For a list, send the same text to up to 10,000 numbers with POST /v1/batches, or a personal text per number in messages.
curl https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BULKSMSAPI_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"to": "+972502345678", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}'const res = await fetch("https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages", {
method: "POST",
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BULKSMSAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({ to: "+972502345678", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.03967", country: "IL"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+972502345678", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}).encode(),
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["BULKSMSAPI_KEY"], "Content-Type": "application/json", "User-Agent": "northwind-app/1.0"},
method="POST",
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as res:
print(json.load(res)["price"]) # "0.03967"What developers send to Israel
Payment confirmations
Users in Jerusalem receive an SMS when a mobile payment is successfully processed through their banking app.
Appointment reminders
Patients in Haifa get an SMS the day before their scheduled doctor's appointment to reduce no-shows.
Delivery updates
Customers in Tel Aviv are notified by SMS when their food delivery is on its way from a local restaurant.
Course registrations
Students in Be'er Sheva receive an SMS confirming their enrollment in university courses for the upcoming semester.
More countries in Middle East
SMS to Israel: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Israel?
How many SMS to Israel does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Israel numbers for the API?
What languages are used for SMS in Israel?
Are there seasonal peaks in SMS traffic in Israel?
Start sending to Israel
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Israel at $0.03967 per segment, from the console or with one API call.