Total amount given to o Israel per year since 1947
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Executive summary
A precise year‑by‑year ledger of U.S. assistance to Israel going back to 1947 is not available in the supplied reporting, but the record shows clear patterns: small, irregular grants and loans in Israel’s early decades; much larger, increasingly institutionalized military grants from the 1970s onward; and formalized multi‑year Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) that set recent annual baselines near $3.3–3.8 billion in military assistance plus separate missile‑defense funding [1] [2] [3].
1. The early years: small, sporadic aid (late 1940s–1960s)
In the first decades after Israel’s founding, U.S. assistance was relatively modest and uneven—sources report totals of roughly $3.1 billion from 1949 to 1973 and an average of about $122 million per year between 1949 and 1973—figures that reflect grants and some loans rather than the large military packages that came later [1] [4].
2. The shift to large military support (1970s–1980s)
A turning point arrived in the early 1970s as the United States began to provide much larger military loans and grants; by the mid‑1980s Congress converted much Israeli military assistance to grants and set annual assistance levels that by later decades would be measured in the billions rather than millions [5] [1].
3. Institutionalized annual packages under MOUs (1999 onward)
The U.S. and Israel began using multi‑year MOUs to set predictable aid levels: a 1999 arrangement committed roughly $2.7 billion annually for ten years, later raised to about $3.0 billion in 2009 and then to a minimum of $3.8 billion under the 2016 MOU—commonly described as $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) plus about $500 million per year for missile defense through 2028 [2] [4] [6] [3].
4. Recent annual flows, supplements and emergency funding (2019–2025)
Under the 2016 MOU Israel’s baseline annual military aid is roughly $3.3 billion in FMF plus an additional roughly $500 million for missile defense, yielding a $3.8 billion headline figure; Congress has also enacted supplemental appropriations, for example authorizing at least $16.3 billion in direct military aid in pieces since October 2023 and supplemental packages in 2024 that accelerated deliveries and added emergency funding [2] [7] [3].
5. Cumulative totals and inflation‑adjusted frames (what they imply about yearly averages)
Cumulative accounting helps convert long runs into per‑year pictures: multiple reputable sources estimate total U.S. assistance to Israel (inflation‑adjusted) in the neighborhood of $300–$320 billion from the early 1950s through the 2010s/2020s; using those aggregates, average annual assistance over long spans varies wildly by era (for example, an inflation‑adjusted total of about $317–$318 billion from 1951–2022 implies multibillion-dollar average annual flows in recent decades but much smaller averages in the early years) [8] [9] [7].
6. Why a single, exact “per year since 1947” number is not provided here
The supplied reporting includes year‑by‑year tables in some places (Congressional Research Service and ForeignAssistance.gov) but the excerpts here do not provide a complete, downloadable year list from 1947 to present within this dataset; consequently, producing an exact annual list for every year from 1947 would require consulting the full CRS tables or the U.S. government’s ForeignAssistance.gov dataset directly—both sources are cited in the reporting as the definitive repositories for year‑level obligations [10] [6] [3].
7. Bottom line and how to get the precise year‑by‑year series
The best synthesis from the provided reporting: Israel received relatively small annual sums in the 1950s–1960s (averages in the low‑hundreds of millions), large stepped increases starting in the 1970s, and formalized annual military packages under MOUs since 1999 that settled in the past decade at roughly $3.3 billion FMF plus ~$500 million missile‑defense funding per year—supplemented intermittently by emergency Congressional appropriations [1] [2] [4] [7]. For an exact calendar‑year series from 1947/1949 to 2025, the Congressional Research Service tables and ForeignAssistance.gov month/year obligation pages cited in the reporting should be consulted directly [10] [6] [3].