Validating Israeli ID number

Question

I'm looking for a clean and efficient way to validate an Israeli ID number.

It's basically an implementation of the Luhn algorithm on a 9 digits number.

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '21 at 08:53

Here's an efficient way to implement it in C# (link):

public static bool IsValidIsraeliID(string israeliID)
    {
        if (israeliID.Length != 9)
            return false;

        long sum = 0;

        for (int i = 0; i < israeliID.Length; i++)
        {
            var digit = israeliID[israeliID.Length - 1 - i] - '0';
            sum += (i % 2 != 0) ? GetDouble(digit) : digit;
        }

        return sum % 10 == 0;

        int GetDouble(long i)
        {
            switch (i)
            {
                case 0: return 0;
                case 1: return 2;
                case 2: return 4;
                case 3: return 6;
                case 4: return 8;
                case 5: return 1;
                case 6: return 3;
                case 7: return 5;
                case 8: return 7;
                case 9: return 9;
                default: return 0;
            }
        }
    }

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 23 '23 at 17:52

JS example code like it appears in Wikipedia: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/ספרת_ביקורת

function IDValidator(id)
{
    if (id.length !== 9 || isNaN(id)) {  // Make sure ID is formatted properly
        return false;
    }
    let sum = 0, incNum;
    for (let i = 0; i < id.length; i++) {
        incNum = Number(id[i]) * ((i % 2) + 1);  // Multiply number by 1 or 2
        sum += (incNum > 9) ? incNum - 9 : incNum;  // Sum the digits up and add to total
    }
    return (sum % 10 === 0);
}

Validating Israeli ID number

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