The Israel Export Insurance Corp. Ltd. (ASHRA)

The Israel Export Insurance Corp. Ltd. (ASHRA) is a company fully owned by the Government of Israel. ASHRA encourages Israeli exports by insuring medium and long term export credit transactions (one to ten years), as well as investments abroad. ASHRA has extensive working relationships with the international insurance and business communities. ASHRA offers its customers insurance cover of up to 95 percent against political risks and up to 90 percent against commercial risks.

Our Expertise

ASHRA covers losses incurred from the following:

  • Nationalization, confiscation, expropriation and similar discriminatory acts of the authorities of host countries by which the policyholder is unable to exercise the rights attached to the investment.

  • War, civil war, hostile acts, uprising, revolution, riots or similar events in the host country, which caused damage to the enterprise in which the policyholder has invested and prevent its orderly operation.

  • A political event, economic difficulty or the imposition of legislation in the host country, which is out of the policyholder's control and which prevents the transfer of money to Israel from the investment fund or the profits from the investment.

    Our Services

  • Israel Export Insurance Corp Ltd.
    Menachem Begin Road 65
    Tel Aviv 61201
    Israel

    Tel. 972-3-5631700
    Fax. 972-3- 5631708

    www.ashra.gov.il


    CONTACTS

    info@ashra.gov.il


    HISTORY

    For more than 20 years, the AIG companies have provided Political Risk Insurance to numerous U.S. and foreign-based clients. Political Risk Insurance is managed by AIG Global Trade & Political Risk Insurance Company (AIG Global). AIG Global operates in conjunction with the AIG companies, which issue our policies. The AIG companies consistently earn high financial ratings from the principal rating agencies. AIG Global works in conjunction with AIG WorldSource in the U.S. and American International Underwriters (AIU) outside the U.S. to meet the global insurance needs of its customers.