Regional council (Israel)

As of 2019, there were 54 regional councils, usually responsible for governing a number of settlements spread across rural areas.

[2][3] Regional councils include representation of anywhere between 3 and 54 communities, usually spread over a relatively large area within geographical vicinity of each other.

This committee sends representatives to the administering regional council proportionate to their size of membership and according to an index which is fixed before each election.

[4] The following sortable table lists all 53 regional councils by name, and the district or area according to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.

[5] The list includes the regional councils in the Golan Heights and the West Bank, areas considered occupied territories under international law,[6][7][8][9] although the Israeli government disputes this.