EDT to Israel: EDT is 7 hours behind Israel
Eastern Time is 7 hours behind Israel Time right now. It is 2:51 am EDT in Eastern and 9:51 am IDT in Israel.
Convert a specific time from EDT to Israel
Pick any time and date to convert it both ways. The conversion runs in your browser against the real zone rules, so a date inside a daylight saving period gets that period's offset rather than today's.
What is the time difference between EDT and Israel?
Israel Time is 7 hours ahead of Eastern Time. To go from EDT to Israel you add 7 hours. That gap is not fixed. Across 2026 the distance between these two zones takes 2 different values, from 6 hours to 7 hours, because the two sides change their clocks on different dates. This page recomputes it rather than assuming.
EDT to Israel conversion table
Every hour of Monday, September 28, 2026 in Eastern, with the matching reading in Israel. 7 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Israel, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| EDT | EDT 24h | Israel | Israel 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | same day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | same day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | same day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | same day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | same day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | the next day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | the next day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | the next day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | the next day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | the next day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between EDT and Israel?
1 hour of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day line up in both zones, from 9:00 am EDT to 10:00 am EDT. In Israel that window reads 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Outside it, one side is either not yet at their desk or already gone.
| EDT | Israel | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | 4:00 pm | both sides | mid morning in Eastern, afternoon in Israel |
Does daylight saving change EDT to Israel?
Eastern Time is currently on EDT and changes next on Sunday, November 1, 2026, when the clock falls back from 1:59 am to 1:00 am and the offset moves from UTC-4 to UTC-5.
Israel Time is currently on IDT and changes next on Sunday, October 25, 2026, when the clock falls back from 1:59 am to 1:00 am and the offset moves from UTC+3 to UTC+2.
Because the two sides do not move together, the answer to this conversion changes during the year. The United States changes on the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November, while the United Kingdom and European Union change on the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October. Those dates are weeks apart, which opens a window each spring and autumn where the usual gap is an hour out. The table above is built for today, not for an average day.
Is EDT ahead of or behind Israel?
EDT is behind Israel by 7 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Eastern, it is 7:00 pm in Israel. One wrinkle worth knowing: EST and EDT are two names for the same zone, not two zones. Eastern Time reads EST in winter and EDT in summer. When somebody types "est to israel" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves EST to America/New_York and ISRAEL to Asia/Jerusalem and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Eastern Time covers New York, Toronto, Atlanta and Miami. Israel Time covers Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The abbreviation IST is shared with India, which is why this page names the country. The identifiers behind them are America/New_York and Asia/Jerusalem, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is EDT in Israel?
- EDT is 7 hours behind Israel. 9:00 am EDT is 4:00 pm Israel.
- How many hours ahead is Israel of EDT?
- Israel is 7 hours ahead of EDT. That varies across the year, between 6 hours and 7 hours.
- What time is it in Israel right now?
- 9:51 am IDT on Monday, September 28, 2026.
- When can Eastern and Israel meet during working hours?
- Between 9:00 am and 10:00 am EDT, which is 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Israel.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so EDT and IDT are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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