diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 38d2dd336..2b7a81d7d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Passing anything other than a string is an error.
 - **isLowercase(str)** - check if the string is lowercase.
 - **isMACAddress(str)** - check if the string is a MAC address.
 - **isMD5(str)** - check if the string is a MD5 hash.
-- **isMobilePhone(str, locale)** - check if the string is a mobile phone number, (locale is one of `['ar-DZ', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SY', 'cs-CZ', 'de-DE', 'da-DK', 'el-GR', 'en-AU', 'en-GB', 'en-HK', 'en-IN', 'en-NZ', 'en-US', 'en-CA', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'es-ES', 'fi-FI', 'fr-FR', 'hu-HU', 'it-IT', 'ja-JP', 'ms-MY', 'nb-NO', 'nn-NO', 'pl-PL', 'pt-PT', 'ru-RU', 'sr-RS', 'tr-TR', 'vi-VN', 'zh-CN', 'zh-TW']`).
+- **isMobilePhone(str, locale)** - check if the string is a mobile phone number, (locale is one of `['ar-DZ', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SY', 'cs-CZ', 'de-DE', 'da-DK', 'el-GR', 'en-AU', 'en-GB', 'en-HK', 'en-IN', 'en-NZ', 'en-US', 'en-CA', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'es-ES', 'fi-FI', 'fr-FR', 'he-IL', 'hu-HU', 'it-IT', 'ja-JP', 'ms-MY', 'nb-NO', 'nn-NO', 'pl-PL', 'pt-PT', 'ru-RU', 'sr-RS', 'tr-TR', 'vi-VN', 'zh-CN', 'zh-TW']`).
 - **isMongoId(str)** - check if the string is a valid hex-encoded representation of a [MongoDB ObjectId][mongoid].
 - **isMultibyte(str)** - check if the string contains one or more multibyte chars.
 - **isNumeric(str)** - check if the string contains only numbers.
diff --git a/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js b/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
index 25b967a72..a2f176d66 100644
--- a/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
+++ b/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ const phones = {
   'es-ES': /^(\+?34)?(6\d{1}|7[1234])\d{7}$/,
   'fi-FI': /^(\+?358|0)\s?(4(0|1|2|4|5)?|50)\s?(\d\s?){4,8}\d$/,
   'fr-FR': /^(\+?33|0)[67]\d{8}$/,
+  'he-IL': /^(\+972|0)([23489]|5[0248]|77)[1-9]\d{6}/,
   'hu-HU': /^(\+?36)(20|30|70)\d{7}$/,
   'it-IT': /^(\+?39)?\s?3\d{2} ?\d{6,7}$/,
   'ja-JP': /^(\+?81|0)\d{1,4}[ \-]?\d{1,4}[ \-]?\d{4}$/,