Crypto by city: where the desks are, and where they aren’t

Search for a bitcoin ATM in your Israeli city and the answer depends heavily on your postcode. The whole country has one crypto cash network, Bitcoin Change, with 11 branches spread across ten cities and one roadside complex at Ein Shemer. Live in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan or Rishon LeZion and a desk is a short ride away. Live in Petah Tikva, Ashdod or Bnei Brak and you either travel to the next city or buy online.

This hub pulls together all 15 of our city and regional pages. Each one is built from that city’s own facts: the branch address and hours or, where there is no branch, the closest one and how far it is, plus whatever makes the place different, from the companies based there to cases the police have handled. We checked the branch list against the operator’s site on 5 October 2026 and cross-checked it with OpenStreetMap and BTC Map.

Bitcoin ATM and desk map: 15 cities and regions

Green means a staffed cash desk with a machine. Orange means a desk that only works by appointment (Eilat). Blue means nothing in town; hover to see the nearest option and roughly how far it is. Gush Dan is too crowded for a normal map, so it gets its own zoomed panel.

Distances on the map and in the table are straight-line, from the OpenStreetMap city centre to the branch address. The road trip is usually 20–40% longer. We could not read Coin ATM Radar, the global ATM directory, because it blocks automated access, so if you need to know whether a particular machine is working today, phone the branch.

Every city in one table: desk, no desk, and what is closest

Rows are sorted by population (CBS via Wikipedia, 2024; Holon and Bat Yam are combined). The city name links to its page, where you will find the phone number, hours and what to do when the desk is closed.

District by district: what the infrastructure really looks like

Tel Aviv District: the densest, still with holes

Most of the industry lives here. Bits of Gold and Fireblocks have their headquarters in Tel Aviv, eToro sits in Champion Tower in Bnei Brak, and the Bitcoin Embassy is on Ahuzat Bayit Street, opposite the stock exchange, where Israel’s first bitcoin ATM stood in 2014. There are two cash desks: King George 50 in Tel Aviv and Tuval 36 in Ramat Gan, in the Diamond Exchange district. Bnei Brak, Holon, Bat Yam and Herzliya have nothing, though distances are short: under 3 km from Bnei Brak to Tuval, and about 6 km from Holon to either Tel Aviv or Rishon.

Central District: two desks, and the biggest city without one

Rishon LeZion (Rothschild 1) and Netanya (Sha’ar HaEmek 3, home town of StarkWare) each have a desk. Petah Tikva, with around 270,000 people, is the largest Israeli city with no crypto point at all, which is a little ironic given that Coinbase’s Israeli R&D centre started there. Its nearest desk is Ramat Gan, about 8 km away. Rehovot, Nes Ziona and Yavne lean on Rishon; Ra’anana and Kfar Saba on Ramat Gan or Netanya, 13–17 km away.

Jerusalem District: one desk for more than a million people

Jerusalem is Israel’s largest city and has a single branch, at Jaffa Street 151. There is nothing in East Jerusalem, and nothing in nearby Beit Shemesh or Modi’in. Shabbat shapes the week too: the desk closes at 14:00 on Friday. Jerusalem is also where one of the most widely reported police raids on an unlicensed “change” took place, in the Mea She’arim neighbourhood.

Haifa District: the Carmel and Ein Shemer

Haifa has one branch, at Horev Street 18 on the Carmel, serving the whole metro area including the Krayot. At the district’s southern edge, the Ein Shemer desk in the Alon complex off Route 65 covers Hadera, Pardes Hanna-Karkur and Wadi Ara. It also keeps the latest hours in the network, open until 21:00.

Northern District: Afula and Karmiel, but not Nazareth

Two branches: Menachem Begin Blvd 72 in Afula and the Dabach Mall complex in Karmiel. Our Northern Israel page covers both, plus Ein Shemer. Nazareth, the largest Arab city in Israel, has no point; Afula is about 12 km away. Tiberias, Safed, Kiryat Shmona and the Golan have nothing either.

Southern District: Beer Sheva, and Eilat by appointment

Beer Sheva has a desk at Yitzhak Rager Blvd 53, near Ben-Gurion University, open until 15:00 on Fridays. In Eilat the desk only sees customers by appointment. Ashdod and Ashkelon, close to 400,000 people between them, have no point; the nearest is Rishon LeZion, about 24 km and 40 km away. Between Beer Sheva and Eilat there are roughly 190 km of nothing.

Where there is nothing: the big cities without a desk

Six cities with more than 150,000 residents have no crypto cash point at all. Together that is over a million and a quarter people. These are not small places: Petah Tikva and Ashdod are both bigger than Beer Sheva and Netanya, which do have desks.

The gap makes sense once you remember that all of Israel’s physical crypto infrastructure belongs to one private company. A Walla Finance piece from July 2024 counted roughly 14 crypto ATMs in the country, mostly in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Beer Sheva and Netanya, and noted that foreign workers were unexpectedly heavy users, sending money home. Since then the network has not expanded into the missing cities, and no second operator has appeared.

Hours, Shabbat and what to bring: the rules every branch shares

Branches differ in address and hours, but the terms are the same everywhere. The fee is 7% on both buying and selling; it went up from 6% during 2026, which is why older map listings still show 6%. Each customer is capped at ₪10,000 a day, ₪20,000 a week and ₪30,000 a month. On your first visit you need two valid ID documents, an Israeli ID card plus a passport or driving licence, and a short questionnaire. The desks buy and sell BTC, ETH, BCH and USDT, for shekel cash only.

Every branch opens Sunday to Thursday, mostly from 10:00, plus Friday morning, and closes for Shabbat. Friday closing ranges from 13:00 (Ramat Gan) to 15:00 (Beer Sheva and Karmiel). According to its website, the company holds a temporary “continuation of activity” permit from the Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority (no. 57960) and its full licence application is pending. Our full Bitcoin Change review.

No desk nearby? What works from any city

A cash desk is handy if you want a person in front of you, but it is expensive: 7% on the way in and another 7% on the way out. If you live far from a branch you are not missing much, because the cheaper routes work from anywhere in the country, on your phone.

With the licensed Israeli platforms, Bits of Gold (licence 56716) and Bit2C (licence 72080), you send shekels from your bank account and the money comes back to the same account. That is the route Israeli banks are most comfortable with. If speed matters more, you can buy with a card or Apple Pay on an international exchange, bearing in mind that none of them holds an Israeli licence. Buying by bank transfer · Buying with a card.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

1. Bitcoin Change — branches, hours, fees and limits · Checked 5 October 2026
2. BTC Map — bitcoin places database (built on OpenStreetMap) · Checked 5 October 2026
3. Walla Finance — roughly 14 crypto ATMs in Israel (July 2024, Hebrew) · Secondary source
4. Ynetnews — 44% of Israelis live in 16 cities · Secondary source
5. Coin ATM Radar — Israel country page · Blocks automated checks; verify manually

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