The remaining gap is 22,121 deliveries across November and December together. October on its own produced 22,657. The annual record to beat, 293,591, was set last year.
The Record Is Close, Not Banked
October ran about 17% ahead of the same month in 2025, which is the pace the final two months would need to match only once between them, not twice.
A signature in a showroom is not a delivery, though. Orders taken now are being quoted for January 2027, and a car handed over in January belongs to next year's count. The gap is small enough that a few weeks of slipped delivery dates decide whether the record falls.
Electric Cars Went Backwards
Battery electric vehicles accounted for 13% of deliveries through October, down from 20.1% in the same period last year: 36,262 cars. Plug in hybrids went the other way, from 10.9% to 25%, or 69,610 cars. Hybrids that never plug in took a further 31.9%.
Put together, roughly seven new vehicles in ten now carry an electric motor, and fewer than one in seven runs on electricity alone.
One change landed at the start of this year. Purchase tax on electric cars rose from 45% to 48%, and the ceiling on the tax benefit was cut to 22,000 shekels. A plug in hybrid offers an electric commute without depending on finding a charger, and it is the category that absorbed the shift.
Three Badges, One Company, a Quarter of the Market
The importers' association counts Omoda and Jaecoo as a single entry and lists Chery on its own:
| Brand or Brand Pair | January to October 2026 Deliveries |
|---|---|
| Omoda and Jaecoo | 34,929 |
| Toyota | 28,396 |
| Chery | 27,803 |
| Hyundai | 23,876 |
| Kia | 22,127 |
Add those two entries together and the Chery group reaches 62,732 deliveries, about 22.6% of everything delivered this year.
Cars built in China account for about 47% of this year's deliveries, against 34.2% in the same months of 2025. That figure describes where a car was assembled, not who owns the badge on it, and the two are drifting apart as established brands ship from Chinese plants.
What a Delivery Is, and Is Not
The count covers registrations by the official importers: private cars, light commercial vehicles and taxis. Parallel and personal imports fall outside it. It also does not separate a car registered to a family from one registered to a leasing fleet or to the importer itself, which is worth remembering in the weeks when a yearly record is within reach.
Before You Sign Anything
Zero kilometre cars are being discounted now, and some of them have already been registered once, to a company. The Israeli motoring press, among it Israeli car magazine Motor Neto, tracks those offers model by model.
Ask for the final price in writing, on the same page as the previous ownership, the warranty start date and the promised delivery date. A discount measured against a list price tells you far less than one measured against another dealer's real offer. And a model near the top of the table is not the same thing as that particular trim sitting on the lot.
