Main research areas eligible for funding


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  • Social security programs for which the National Insurance Institute is responsible (program goals, structure and characteristics, conditions of eligibility, coverage level and eligible population, adequacy of benefits).
  • Short-term, mid-term and long-term financing of the social security, and its development over time.
  • Demography and its development in a social security context.
  • Standard of living, poverty, inequality and gaps including in opportunities, in contexts relevant to social security in its broad meaning.
  • The labor market including foreign workers, pension and other welfare systems linked to work.
  • Global trends and their direct and indirect influence on social security systems.
  • Social services and welfare services in cash and in kind.
  • The tax systems and their implications on social security in its broad meaning.
  • The state budget, socio-economic policy, and their influence on Israeli society.
  • Technological developments serving social security (robotics in the service of insured persons) in the fields of long-term care, disability or old age.
  • Proposals regarding the establishment of basic data only (survey apart from the research) will be given preference in the following cases: creating new national databases that are useful to many researchers, or various research fields and collecting data on the needs of populations at-risk or in economic distress.

In the context of the Coronavirus crisis, preference will be given to researches dealing with the impact of the crisis on the National Insurance, including researches focusing on the following: 

  • Impact of the crisis on financial strength of the National Insurance
  • Impact on poverty, inequality and social security
  • Researches on the topic of allowances - both social-security and non-social-security benefits, in particular on unemployment and income support, and on "clusters" allowances, such as: universal and functioning allowances, and so forth
  • Impact of the crisis on the aspect of receipts and types of insured persons
  • Legislative changes required to apply to the National Insurance Law due to the Coronavirus crisis
  • Advised preparation by the National Insurance to cope with extreme events