# Israel Statistics (CBS)
> Integrates with the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics API to retrieve economic data including consumer price indices, housing market data, producer price indices, and inflation calculations with specialized handling for bi-monthly housing data and support for both JSON and XML response formats.
Canonical: https://www.mcpfolio.com/servers/israel-statistics-cbs
Last updated: 2026-10-28
## Catalog record

- Publisher: reuvenaor
- Categories: development, search, finance

## Repository

https://github.com/reuvenaor/israel-statistics-mcp

## Transports

stdio

## Authentication

No credentials were configured; the tested read-only tool “get_index_topics” succeeded in an isolated environment. Other tools may have additional requirements.

## Tools

- **get_index_topics**: Browse or search the full CBS catalog tree of price-index topics and codes. The best starting point for keyword discovery (e.g. searchText='bread' or 'housing'). Returns chapters with their subjects and index codes; feed a codeId into get_index_data or get_index_calculator. Hebrew is the default language — pass lang='en' for English names.
- **get_index_data**: Retrieve the historical time series for one index code (from get_subject_codes or get_index_topics). Periods use mm-yyyy (e.g. startPeriod='01-2020', endPeriod='12-2024'); use last=N for just the most recent N points; coef=true adds chaining coefficients to previous base periods. Housing indices (codes 18xxxx) are bi-monthly with provisional recent values — the summary warns when that matters.
- **get_catalog_chapters**: List all CBS index chapters (a=Consumer Price Index, aa=Housing Market, b/ba/bb=Producer Prices, c/ca=Building Inputs, d=Road Construction, e=Agriculture, f/fa=Bus & Minibus Inputs, plus any newly added). This is the authoritative chapter list — use a chapterId with get_chapter_topics or get_all_indices.
- **get_chapter_topics**: List the subjects/topics inside one chapter (chapterId from get_catalog_chapters, e.g. 'aa' for the housing market). Returns subjectIds for get_subject_codes; code arrays may be null at this level — that is normal, drill down via get_subject_codes.
- **get_subject_codes**: List the concrete index codes for one subject/topic (subjectId from get_chapter_topics or get_index_topics), optionally filtered by searchText. Each code includes its date coverage and update frequency — use codeId with get_index_data or get_index_calculator.
- **get_index_calculator**: Inflation-adjust a monetary amount between two dates using a specific index (the official CBS linkage calculator). Dates: use yyyy-mm-dd (recommended, e.g. '2020-01-15'); dd-mm-yyyy is auto-corrected only when unambiguous (day>12) — otherwise it is read as the CBS mm-dd-yyyy convention. Some series (e.g. 110050) legitimately return null coefficient bounds. For housing indices, avoid toDate values inside the provisional window flagged in the summary. Use indexCode 120010 for general CPI.
- **get_main_indices**: Current snapshot of the headline CBS indices (general CPI, housing, producer prices, …) with values across base periods and the last monthly percent change. No parameters required; oldFormat=true switches to the legacy layout.
- **get_main_indices_by_period**: Headline indices over a month range. Dates use compact yyyymm (startDate='202401', endDate='202403'); the range must start no earlier than 199701 and endDate must not precede startDate. Results come both as a flat list and grouped by month.
- **get_all_indices**: The complete current-month index tree, optionally filtered to one chapter (e.g. chapter='aa' for housing — the summary then carries the bi-monthly/provisional caveat). Large payload: prefer chapter filtering. The indices field mirrors the raw CBS XML structure (values arrive as string arrays).

## Sources

- [MCP.Directory public profile](https://mcp.directory/servers/israel-statistics-cbs)
- [Linked publisher repository](https://github.com/reuvenaor/israel-statistics-mcp)
- [npm registry metadata](https://registry.npmjs.org/%40reuvenorg%2Fisrael-statistics-mcp)

## Setup

Use the interactive setup panel on [the detail page](https://www.mcpfolio.com/servers/israel-statistics-cbs) to view instructions for each supported client.