Is Xylazine legal in Israel?

Legal status

Controlled. Named in the First Schedule of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance [New Version], 5733-1973 at חלק ב' סימן ב' פרט 6י, added in 2025

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. [Certain] Re-derived in this run from the Ordinance as consolidated at its revision of 16 February 2026: the words מוות, תלייה, הוצאה להורג and עולם return zero hits across the whole text, so there is no death route and no life route, and the heaviest sentence anywhere in it is the 25 years of section 21 for involving a minor. [Certain] Read in this run at חלק ב' סימן ב' פרט 6י, which reads קסילזין Xylazine N-(2,6-Dimethylphenyl)-5,6-dihydro-4H-1,3-thiazin-2-amine. [Certain] It was inserted by הודעת הסמים המסוכנים (תיקון התוספת הראשונה לפקודה), התשפ"ה-2025, Kovetz HaTakanot 11879 of 8 June 2025 at page 1819, whose paragraph 1(3) reads «בחלק ב', בסימן ב', אחרי פרט 6ט יבוא: "6י. קסילזין Xylazine N-(2,6-Dimethylphenyl)-5,6-dihydro-4H-1,3-thiazin-2-amine."», made under section 41 with the approval of the Knesset Health Committee and signed on 27 May 2025, read from the gazette PDF itself in this run. Before that notice xylazine was not in the Schedule, which is why the earlier deferral against the 2018 copy found no entry. The סימן's own sweep at פרט 7 adds «האיזומרים האופטיים, הסטראואיזומרים, האסטרים והאתרים» of every substance in it unless expressly excepted. [Certain] Section 1 defines סם מסוכן as «חומר מן המפורטים בתוספת הראשונה לרבות כל מלח שלו, וכן כל תכשיר, תרכובת, תערובת או תמיסה של חומר כאמור ומלחיהם», a substance listed in the First Schedule including any salt of it, and any preparation, compound, mixture or solution of such a substance and of their salts. That definition says nothing about isomers, analogues or structural derivatives, so those come only from the words of an individual פרט or of a סימן wide sweep clause. Section 7(c) sets up to 20 years or a fine 25 times the fine in section 61(a)(4) of the Penal Law 5737-1977 for possession or use, dropping to 3 years or the plain section 61(a)(4) fine where the drug was held or used for the person's own consumption alone. Section 7(d), in the text read in this run, sets «מאסר חמש שנים», five years, for own use possession or use inside a school building or its grounds by a person who is not a pupil there, and does not apply to a person under sixteen. Section 6 sets the same 20 years for growing, manufacturing, producing, preparing or extracting without the Director's licence. Section 19A sets 20 years for the trade and transit offences of sections 13 to 18, which reach export, import, brokering, dealing, any other transaction and supply whether or not for payment. Section 21 raises it to 25 years on any of its three limbs, giving a dangerous drug to a minor, being responsible for a minor and allowing him to obtain or use one, or inducing a minor to obtain or use one, and section 25 bars a wholly suspended sentence or a probation order on that conviction. [Certain] Section 20 is not a penalty provision at all, it is the customs inspection power over a consignment carried in transit through Israel. No Second Schedule quantity is set for this substance: the Second Schedule as read has rows only for cannabis, cannabis resin, opium, LSD, cocaine, heroin, methadone, morphine, opium tincture, pethidine, amphetamine, dexamphetamine and methamphetamine, so the section 31(3) reverse onus, which presumes possession beyond personal consumption above a listed quantity, a weight for every row except LSD's three units, has no threshold to run from here.

If prescribed or medical

This substance sits in חלק ב' of the First Schedule, so section 11's permitted possession list applies: a pharmacist on licensed premises, a physician, dentist, veterinarian, physician associate or specialist nurse permitted to hold it, a holder who proves it was obtained from a pharmacist and dispensed under the Pharmacists Ordinance or obtained from a physician, veterinarian, physician associate or specialist nurse entitled to supply it, or a case permitted by regulations. Section 12 permits use for healing on the same supply terms. [Certain] A traveller's own prescription from abroad is not one of the routes the Ordinance names, so confirm with an Israeli mission before travelling. [Likely] Xylazine is a veterinary sedative; it is not named in the First Schedule to the Pharmacists Ordinance as read in this run. [Certain] Counted in the text read in this run, the stem וטרינר occurs eight times on five lines: the section 1 definition of a veterinary surgeon, section 11(2) and section 11(3), section 12, and the section 39(4) power to regulate prescriptions for dangerous drugs by physicians, dentists, veterinarians, physician associates and specialist nurses; the earlier cell counted seven in the 2018 copy.

Documentation

[Certain] Placement read in this run: חלק ב' סימן ב' פרט 6י, inserted by ק"ת 11879 of 8 June 2025. Read in this run, 3 October 2026, against the Hebrew Wikisource consolidation of the Ordinance at its revision of 16 February 2026, whose own amendment list for the First Schedule ends at ק"ת התשפ"ה 1819 and the correction at 1876, both of June 2025, later than the 2018 copy the earlier Israel cells read, whose schedule pages carried a 1.4.2018 update stamp and whose section 7 was stamped 1.1.2019; this reading does not rule out a later amendment. Carried from the published entry and from the b162 staging, not re-derived in this run [Likely]: cannabis is decriminalised by policy rather than legalised. Since 1 April 2019, under a temporary order following the July 2018 Knesset approval, adult personal use or possession of a small amount, 15 g or less, was handled administratively rather than as a criminal offence; private home use was said to be no offence at all, while public use drew a graduated fine, the first about NIS 1,000 or about USD 275, doubled on the second, with the third triggering a criminal investigation or licence loss and the fourth prosecution. Per NIDA and the Anti-Drug Authority cannabis use is still forbidden. Soldiers, prisoners, minors and police were excluded from that framework and remained criminal. The framework was cannabis only and did not extend to other drugs. Also carried and flagged as draft rather than enacted: a 2020 bill to decriminalise up to 50 g did not pass; 2022 Sa'ar draft regulations to make personal use purely administrative and expunge records; a February 2024 redefinition of dangerous drug to only cannabis above 0.3% THC, which would place low-THC CBD outside the Ordinance. Medical cannabis is one of the world's oldest and largest programmes, run by the Israel Medical Cannabis Agency under the Ministry of Health, with a figure of about 130,000 to 140,000 patients and a January 2024 reform that dropped the last resort requirement. None of those figures was verified against a primary source in this run. [Certain] Re-derived here instead, and it overtakes the carried framework above: that framework was enacted as a temporary law, which the Ordinance's own amendment list names «חוק הסמים המסוכנים (עבירת קנס מיוחדת - הוראת שעה)», and the section 7(c1) it inserted, the special fine offence the published entry described as keyed to פרטים 1 ו-2 בסימן א' בחלק א', cannabis and cannabis resin, with a fine of NIS 1,000 for a first offence and NIS 2,000 for a second, now reads only «(ג1) (פקע)», lapsed, in the consolidation read in this run. So on the Ordinance's own text the administrative fine route is no longer in force, and whether anything has replaced it was not established in this run. The b162 staging carried an 8 year asset seizure exposure on the trafficking route; what the text read in this run actually contains is section 31(6), under which, once a court finds under section 36A(b) that the convicted person is a drug dealer, his property and that of his spouse and of his children under twenty one is presumed to be drug deal property unless he proves it was lawfully acquired or reached him «לא מאוחר משמונה שנים» before the indictment, not later than eight years before it. Israel has no capital provision for any drug offence.

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