Non-military aid to Israel yearly? Last ten years.
Executive summary
U.S. annual non‑military (economic, humanitarian, development) aid to Israel in recent years has been negligible compared with military assistance: available public datasets and reporting show Israel’s U.S. assistance is overwhelmingly military under the 2016 ten‑year MOU that commits $3.8 billion a year in military aid; in 2022 the U.S. committed about $3.3 billion in assistance to Israel, of which roughly 99.7% was military and about $8.8 million was economic/non‑military [1]. Congressional and government summaries treat most Israel aid as Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and count conflict‑related supplements separately [2] [3].
1. What “non‑military” aid means — and why it’s tiny for Israel
U.S. foreign assistance is split into military (FMF, weapons sales, missile‑defense programs) and non‑military (economic, development, humanitarian). For Israel, virtually all recent U.S. assistance is FMF under the 2016 MOU; USAFacts reports that of the $3.3 billion the U.S. committed to Israel in 2022, about $8.8 million (roughly 0.3%) was economic/non‑military and 99.7% was military [1]. The State Department and CRS likewise emphasize Israel’s aid as security‑focused, not broad economic assistance [4] [5].
2. Yearly non‑military totals: what available sources show
Available public reporting and government datasets cited here do not provide a simple ten‑year line‑by‑line table of “non‑military” aid numbers for each year; however, the best published snapshots show non‑military aid to Israel in recent years runs in the single‑digit millions while military aid is billions. USAFacts gives the 2022 example of $8.8 million in economic aid vs. $3.3 billion total aid [1]. The Congressional Research Service and State Department resources treat most obligations as military under the MOU [5] [4]. For a full year‑by‑year breakdown, the U.S. government’s ForeignAssistance.gov portal lists country‑by‑country obligation data (available source mentions site but does not present a ten‑year non‑military table here) [6].
3. Why the non‑military share is so small: policy and the 2016 MOU
The 2016 Memorandum of Understanding guarantees Israel a 10‑year package worth $38 billion (about $3.8 billion per year) focused on military and missile‑defense funding; that structure leaves little room for sizable non‑military grants [7] [1]. The State Department frames decades of U.S. assistance as “bilateral assistance focused on addressing … security threats,” and since the MOU most U.S. obligations to Israel are security cooperation [4].
4. Recent wartime supplements and how they change annual totals
Since October 7, 2023, Congress and the executive branch have authorized additional military supplements to replenish stockpiles and provide emergency materiel; CFR notes legislation providing at least $16.3 billion in direct military aid since the war began, and CRS compiled tables of total U.S. obligations to Israel through 2025 [3] [2]. Those supplements are overwhelmingly military and do not materially increase non‑military aid lines in the public reporting cited [3] [2].
5. Sources, limitations, and where to go for exact year‑by‑year numbers
This assessment relies on USAFacts’ 2022 breakdown (economic vs. military) and government/CRS reporting that frames most Israel aid as FMF under the 2016 MOU [1] [5] [4] [2]. Limitations: the provided set of sources does not include a clear, compiled ten‑year annual table of non‑military obligations for 2016–2025; ForeignAssistance.gov is the U.S. portal that contains line‑item obligations by year and category and would be the primary place to extract precise year‑by‑year non‑military totals [6]. Available sources do not mention a complete ten‑year non‑military annual list in this packet [6].
6. Competing perspectives and political context
Advocates and some Israeli sources emphasize the MOU’s benefits and note most FMF is spent in U.S. industry and supports joint programs, framing aid as a strategic investment [7] [8] [4]. Critics in Congress and some policy outlets have intensified scrutiny since the 2023 war over both large military supplements and humanitarian implications; CRS notes heightened debate and the inclusion of conflict‑era supplemental packages in totals [2] [3]. Non‑governmental sources such as Jewish Virtual Library provide historical cumulative totals and narrative context but are advocacy‑oriented in tone, which readers should weigh against government datasets [9].
Actionable next step: to generate an exact year‑by‑year table for the last ten years of non‑military U.S. aid to Israel, consult ForeignAssistance.gov’s country pages and the State Department/USAID data services to extract annual obligations by sector (economic vs. military) and then sum the non‑military categories for each fiscal year [6] [4].