State Attorney (Israel)

The State Attorney office (Hebrew: פרקליטות המדינה, Praklitut Hamedinah) represents the State of Israel and the government authorities before the various courts and tribunals, at all levels. The State Attorney's Office is part of the executive branch of the State of Israel, and operates organizationally as part of the Ministry of Justice. The work of the State Attorney's Office covers many areas of law, including criminal, civil, constitutional and administrative, economic-fiscal, labor law, and international law. In the field of criminal law enforcement, the State Attorney's Office operates independently.

As of the end of 2022, the State Attorney's Office consists of 14 headquarters units and 13 district attorney's offices. It has 2,114 employees, including 1,163 attorneys, 385 interns, 267 administrative employees, 149 students, 104 national service members, and 49 investigators from the Police Internal Affairs Department. The State Attorney's Office is headed by the State Attorney, who has four deputies - the Deputy for Criminal Affairs, the Deputy for Civil Affairs, the Deputy for Special Affairs, and the Deputy for Economic Enforcement.

For the most part, it is the headquarters units that appear in the Supreme Court and the National Labor Court, and it is the district attorney's offices that appear in the Magistrate's and District Courts, the Family Court, the Regional Labor Court and other tribunals (such as: Parole Committees appointed under the Parole from Imprisonment Law, 5761–2001) and in exceptional cases also in other instances such as the Local Court, the Rabbinical Court and the Enforcement Service.