il-eli-mcp
MCP server for Israeli law via the Knesset's official OData API plus a
local case-law corpus. Covers the legislation registry (KNS_IsraelLaw:
in-force/repealed status, Basic Law flag), published law versions with
their official PDF documents (KNS_Law + KNS_DocumentLaw, including
consolidated texts), and 10,558 Hebrew court judgments.
What this is not
- Law texts are PDF links, not inline text -
il_get_law_documentsreturns official fs.knesset.gov.il PDF URLs; fetching and reading the PDF is the client's job. - Two disjoint legislation id spaces -
israel_law_id(registry) andlaw_id(published versions). The Knesset exposes no reliable general join between them; search both by name (see DISCOVERY.md). - Hebrew only - law names, queries and judgments are in Hebrew.
- No Supreme Court case law - the local corpus covers Family, District, Magistrate, Labor, Military and Administrative courts only, and its upstream license is undocumented (analysis use, not redistribution).
Tools
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
il_search_laws | Full-text search over law names (registry: status, Basic Law flag) |
il_get_law | Full detail for one law by its IsraelLawID |
il_search_law_texts | Search published law versions (KNS_Law), incl. consolidated texts |
il_get_law_documents | Official PDF documents for a published law (fs.knesset.gov.il) |
il_search_case_law | Keyword search over the local corpus of 10,558 judgments |
il_get_case | One judgment's full text by judgment_id |
Every response carries lex_uri, source_url and human_readable_citation
(the Hebrew name) - Israel has no separate public citation identifier
scheme for this data, so the URLs are dereferenceable Knesset OData entity
URLs, never invented.
Install
pip install il-eli-mcp
Windows 11 with Smart App Control
Smart App Control blocks unsigned executables, which covers uvx.exe, pip.exe
and the il-eli-mcp.exe launcher that pip writes at install time. The python.exe and
py.exe from the python.org installer are signed by the Python Software
Foundation, so running the module through the interpreter works:
python -m pip install il-eli-mcp
python -m il_eli_mcp
pip.exe is blocked for the same reason, so install with python -m pip, not
pip install. If python is not on PATH, use the Windows launcher: py -3 -m il_eli_mcp.
{ "mcpServers": { "il-eli-mcp": { "command": "python", "args": ["-m", "il_eli_mcp"] } } }
Do not turn Smart App Control off to work around this - it cannot be re-enabled without reinstalling Windows.
Configuration
| Env var | Default |
|---|---|
IL_ELI_CACHE_DIR | ~/.matematic/cache/il-eli |
IL_ELI_AUDIT_DIR | ~/.matematic/audit |
IL_ELI_BASE_URL | https://knesset.gov.il/Odata/ParliamentInfo.svc |
License
Apache-2.0 (code). Knesset OData content is official parliamentary publication material (see SOURCES.md).