Israel
ISR · 2024 energy mix · renewables 9.5% · fossil fuels 90.2%
Threat reading 33 of 100, classified HIGH THREAT, HOLDING. 0 events recorded here in the last seven days, 0 in the last thirty.
That number is computed from live feeds and moves. The live monitor is where to read it as of right now.
Where its energy comes from
| Oil | 41.5% |
|---|---|
| Gas | 37.6% |
| Coal | 11.1% |
| Solar | 9.0% |
| Wind | 0.4% |
| Other renewables | 0.1% |
In 2024, renewables accounted for 9.5% and fossil fuels for 90.2%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Israel is close to balanced on electricity trade.
Sources under one per cent of the mix are left out of the table rather than listed as a row of zeroes. Percentages are shares of a country's primary energy, not of the power it generates.
Recorded history
NOAA's hazard records hold 7 significant earthquakes and 3 tsunamis in or just off Israel since 425.
The deadliest was the 25 November 1759 magnitude 7.4 earthquake (Lebanon-syria: Baalbec; Syria: Damascus, Antioch), which killed 30,000 people.
The most recent entry is the 1838 earthquake (Israel: Tel Aviv-yafo (Jaffa), Palestine), which killed 3,000 people.
Across the entries that record a death toll, 41,000 people died.
| Date | What | Where | Toll |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 November 1759 | magnitude 7.4 earthquake | Lebanon-syria: Baalbec; Syria: Damascus, Antioch | 30,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 1 January 1837 | magnitude 6.4 earthquake | Israel: Zefat (Safed); Lebanon: Beirut (Beyrout) | 6,000 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 1 January 1837 | tsunami | Israel and Syrian Coasts | 6,000 dead, damage over $25 million |
| 1838 | earthquake | Israel: Tel Aviv-yafo (Jaffa), Palestine | 3,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 30 October 1759 | magnitude 6.6 earthquake | Israel: Zefat (Safed) | 2,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 30 October 1759 | tsunami (waves to 8 m) | Akko | 2,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 29 May 1068 | tsunami | Gulf of Aqaba | damage over $25 million |
| 11 January 1293 | earthquake | Israel: Ramla, Gaza; Jordan: Al-karak | damage $5 to 25 million |
| 29 May 1068 | earthquake | Israel: Ramla, Palestine, Jerusalem, Tabuk, Kufa, Halla | damage over $25 million |
| 425 | earthquake | Israel: Jerusalem, Palestine, Ramleh; Egypt | damage $5 to 25 million |
A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.
Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.
In the last 30 days
Our feeds placed no events in Israel in the last 30 days. That is a statement about the feeds we read, not proof that nothing happened.
What the threat reading is made of
| Conflict | 0 |
|---|---|
| Unrest | 0 |
| Security | 35 |
| Spillover from neighbours | 25 |
| Natural hazard | 0 |
| Resilience | 88 |
Each is 0 to 100. Resilience runs the other way to the rest: a high number is a country better able to absorb a shock, not a country in more trouble.
Other countries tracked
Where the data comes from
Energy mix, 2024: Our World in Data, energy dataset (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), compiled by Pablo Rosado, Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. Licence: Our World in Data's own compilation is CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures stay under their original terms: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. EIA, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. The percentages shown here and the wording are ours. Threat reading: computed by Rift Web from the feeds listed on the sources page.