A Conservative Estimate of Total Direct U.S. Aid to Israel: $108 Billion

TABLE 1: Direct U.S. Aid to Israel (millions of dollars)
Year	Total	Military Grant	Economic Grant	Immigrant	ASHA	All Other
1949-1996	68,030.9	29,014.9	23,122.4	868.9	121.4	14,903.3
1997	3,132.1	1,800.0	1,200.0	80.0	2.1	50.0
1998	3, 080.0	1,800.0	1,200.0	80.0	?	?
1999	3,010.0	1,860.0	1,080.0	70.0	?	?
2000	4,131.8	3,120.0	949.1	60.0	2.75	?
2001	2,876.1	1,975.6	838.2	60.0	2.25	?
2002	2,850.6	2,040.0	720.0	60.0	2.65	28.0
2003	3,745.1	3,086.4	596.1	59.6	3.05	?
2004	2,687.3	2,147.3	477.2	49.7	3.15	9.9
2005 est.	2,612.2	2,202.2	357.0	50.0	2.95	?
2006 est.	2,563.5	2,280.0	240.0	40.0	3.00	.5
Total	98,719.6	51,326.4	30,780.0	1,478.2	143.3	14,991.7
Notes: ESF was earmarked for $960 million for FY2000, but was reduced to meet a 0.38% recision. FY2000 military grants include $1.2 billion for the Wye agreement and $1.92 billion in annual military aid. Final amounts for FY 2003 are reduced by 0.65% mandated recision, and final amounts for FY 2004 are reduced by 0.59%.
Sources: CRS Report to Congress: U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel, dated January 5, 2006, plus the FY ’06 Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, H.R. 3057.

Because of the uncertainties and ambiguities associated with U.S. aid to Israel, arriving at a precise figure for total direct U.S. aid to Israel probably is not possible. Parts of it are buried in the budgets of other government agencies—mostly the Defense Department (DOD)—or in a form not easily quantifiable—such as the early disbursement of aid, allowing Israel a direct gain and the U.S. Treasury a direct loss of interest on the unspent money. Given these caveats, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) conservatively estimates cumulative total direct U.S. aid to Israel at $107.961 billion. Source