VanEck Israel ETF
$68.22−0.23 (−0.33%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.59%
- Fund size
- $163M
- 1Y return
- +31.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.27%
- Holdings
- 81
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $68.43
- 52W range
The ETF.net ISRA Grade
Score 40 of 100 sits in the C band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 18Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.CScore 48Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 52Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 35Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 73Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 55Category rank
Our read on ISRA
COne ticker for Israel. ISRA tracks the BlueStar Israel Global Index, a benchmark built around companies generally considered Israeli rather than an Israel sleeve carved out of a world index, and it has been running since 2013.
The fund seeks to replicate, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the BlueStar Israel Global Index, which represents equity securities of companies generally considered Israeli.
Why people hold it
- Purpose-built reference: the BlueStar Israel Global Index targets equities of companies generally considered Israeli, not just whatever a broad global benchmark happens to classify as Israel.vaneck.com
- Launched in 2013, so this is a long-running Israel fund with a real track record behind it, not a fresh thematic launch.
- Roughly 80 holdings spread the exposure across Israel's market rather than resting on a few megacap names.
- Plain plumbing: a standard 1940 Act ETF holding index equities, with no leverage or derivatives overlay to unpack.vaneck.com
Worth knowing
- The 0.59% expense ratio sits above the typical single-country developed fund, and low-cost peers like FLKR and FLAU charge 0.09%.
- It trades thinly next to the heavyweights of its group, which can mean wider bid-ask spreads and more friction getting in and out.
- Single-country design means Israeli politics, the shekel and regional events move the whole portfolio together. Distributions come once or twice a year, not monthly.
ISRA Holdings
- Stocks
- 81
- 49%
- PANW
Sectors
- Technology36.8%
- Financials27.8%
- Health Care8.6%
- Industrials7.4%
- Real Estate5.0%
- Utilities4.8%
- Consumer Discr.2.7%
- Energy2.6%
- Communication1.6%
- Cons. Staples1.5%
- Materials1.2%
Geography
- Israel74.05%
- United States24.50%
- United Kingdom0.54%
- Switzerland0.50%
- Singapore0.41%
Developed 2% · Emerging 98%
ISRA Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | ISRA |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +16.4% |
| 1 month | +2.6% |
| 3 months | +8.4% |
| 1 year | +31.9% |
| 3 years | +28.6% |
| 5 years | +8.6% |
| 10 years | +10.6% |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | ISRA |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +16.4% | |
| 2025 | +37.0% | |
| 2024 | +26.0% | |
| 2023 | −0.1% | |
| 2022 | −25.7% | |
| 2021 | +10.1% | |
| 2020 | +28.2% |
ISRA in the news
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ISRA Dividends
- 1.27%
- $0.87
- $0.87 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.87 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.53 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.66 |
| Dec 19, 2022 | Dec 23, 2022 | $0.49 |
| Dec 20, 2021 | Dec 27, 2021 | $0.62 |
| Dec 21, 2020 | Dec 28, 2020 | $0.08 |
| Dec 23, 2019 | Dec 30, 2019 | $0.49 |
| Dec 20, 2018 | Dec 27, 2018 | $0.21 |
| Dec 18, 2017 | Dec 22, 2017 | $0.48 |
| Dec 19, 2016 | Dec 23, 2016 | $0.44 |
| Dec 21, 2015 | Dec 28, 2015 | $0.38 |
| Dec 22, 2014 | Dec 29, 2014 | $0.74 |
ISRA Risk
- 19.7%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.08
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −45.0%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.02
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ISRA Cost
- The middle half of Developed Single Country funds
- Median 0.50%
28 of the 38 Developed Single Country funds charge less.