Information for internationally educated nurses on the enrollment process for the governmental licensing examination upon receiving eligibility
After receiving a recognition approval from the Nursing Administration regarding your professional status as internationally educated registered nurses, you will be notified about your eligibility to take the State Nursing Board Licensure Examination.
Please note:
- Enrollment for the examination is performed via the Healthcare Professions Portal during the published dates.
- The examination may be taken in one of the six available languages: Hebrew, Arabic, English, Russian, French, or Spanish.
- You can enroll in one of the two adaptive examination sessions held each year: in April and September.
- In order to secure your place in the governmental licensure examination on a certain date, you have to enroll while ensuring compliance with all the conditions and performing the process stages on time. If all enrollment stages are not completed on time, it will not be possible to take the examination on the chosen date.
- Applicants who are not holding an Israeli ID (such as passport holders) cannot receive service via the personal portal. In this case, contact the licensing exams department at siud.test@moh.gov.il or the Call Habriut call center (*5400) in order to receive the instructions for enrollment.
Enrollment procedure for the spring 2026 examination
If you graduated from nursing studies abroad and wish to take the governmental examination for the status of registered nurse in the spring examination period on 26.04.26–29.04.26, you must complete two stages up to the examination date, where each stage is conditional upon the completion of the previous stage.
These are the stages:
- Submitting the application: The deadline for submitting all the required documents to the Nursing Administration for checking eligibility for recognition of professional status in nursing care (internationally educated nursing graduates) is 29.01.2026. Any document application/request after this date will be handled in accordance with the service covenant.
- Examination enrollment: Up to March 30, 2026.
Appeals
The date for an appeal after the licensure examination is June 23, 2026.
If you received a grade of 58-59 only, you are eligible to file an appeal. It is possible to file an appeal up to two weeks from the day of publication of grades. The appeal procedure is held in accordance with the Appeal Procedure for State Board Licensure examinations.
Enrollment procedure for the Fall 2026 examination
If you graduated from nursing studies abroad and wish to take the governmental examination for the status of registered nurse in the fall examination period from 06.09.2026 to 10.09.2026, you must complete two stages up to the examination date, where each stage is conditional upon the completion of the previous stage.
These are the stages:
- Submitting the application: The deadline for submitting all the required documents to the Nursing Administration for checking eligibility for recognition of professional status in nursing care (internationally educated nursing graduates) is 06.06.2026. Any document application/request after this date will be handled in accordance with the service covenant.
- Examination enrollment: Up to August 06, 2026.
Appeals
The date for an appeal after the licensure examination is November 19, 2026.
If you received a grade of 58-59 only, you are eligible to file an appeal. It is possible to file an appeal up to two weeks from the day of publication of grades. The appeal procedure is held in accordance with the Appeal Procedure for State Board Licensure examinations.
Enrollment for a repeat examination
When enrolling for a repeat examination, there is no need to complete any additional declarations. You must inform the Nursing Administration about any change in your health or a criminal record. For information on enrollment for a repeat examination.
Enrollment for the examination via the Healthcare Professions Portal:
If this is your first time taking the examination, you should act according to the following instructions:
- Portal entry: On the first portal entry, the temporary password is to be replaced with a permanent personal password. The username and password are to be used for any future entry to the portal.
- It is the applicant's responsibility to keep the Nursing Administration updated in case of a contact information change by contacting the Kol Habriut call center (*5400).
- Owners of a mobile phone who are not able to receive text messages (SMS) are requested to provide a mobile telephone number of a close person able to receive the text messages on their behalf throughout the enrollment process, the exam invitation, and receiving the grades.
- For any technical problem, contact the "Call Habriut" call center (*5400). - Health declaration and lack of criminal record: You must sign an online declaration with a digital signature. Fulfilling the declaration is a precondition for the examination.
Good to know: The Nursing Administration contacts the Israeli Police in order to obtain information regarding a lack of a criminal record. - Payment: Before registration for the examination, payment should be made for the licensure examination fee.
- Payment is to be made using the Postal Bank or via a wire transfer to the Health Ministry account. The account details: The Postal Bank, Branch No. 001, Jerusalem, Account No. 0-025961.
- After payment, scan or photocopy the confirmation (proof of payment) and keep it for the purpose of exam enrollment in the portal.
Please note: Pay only after you have received confirmation for eligibility to take the examination. Without this confirmation, you will not be able to take the examination, regardless of the payment. - Enrollment for the examination: The examination enrollment via the portal must be completed up to a month prior to the exam's date. The portal closes for enrollments afterwards.
- During enrollment, the exam's date and language are to be selected (Hebrew, Arabic, English, Russian, French, or Spanish).
- The language is to be carefully selected – once set, the language cannot be changed.
- In order to finalize enrollment, upload the payment confirmation file as proof of payment.
- Those eligible for extra testing time should upload the relevant documents during enrollment.
- Once the enrollment is concluded, a text message (SMS) informing of the enrollment process conclusion will be sent from the Nursing Administration. - Examination invitation letter: The invitation letter is to be brought to the examination.
- Producing the examination invitation letter will be possible on the portal two weeks prior to the examination date.
- This letter contains information pertaining to the examination specifications: locations, date and time of the examination, examinee number, name of the hall, and the time extension, if there is one. The invitation letter is to be printed out and brought to the exam.
For further information and important details regarding the examination day