---
title: "Is weizmann.ac.il Legit? Trust Score 90/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "weizmann.ac.il"
verdict: "High Trust"
title: "Is weizmann.ac.il Legit? Trust Score 90/100"
trust_score: 90
classification_confidence: 75
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/weizmann.ac.il
assessed: 2026-08-13
---

# Is weizmann.ac.il legit? TrustSniffer's high-trust assessment: 90/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: High Trust, trust score 90/100.** weizmann.ac.il appears legitimate.

Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.

Labels: Not Scam, Low Risk

Assessed 2026-08-13 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 75%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| What this site appears to be | Public-facing pages for the Weizmann Institute of Science: news, events, campus information, research features, and institutional contact details. Footer lists address and contact phone; cookie/privacy banner present. |

## Evidence status and limitations


Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN

- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.

## At a glance

The checks that decide most of this verdict.

| Check | Result | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Malware engines | None flagged it (VirusTotal) | Clear |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted |
| Domain age | 29 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 1997 (793 snapshots) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by GEANT TLS RSA 1) | Noted |

## The page as captured


No screenshot is retained for this report.

## Key findings


- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 1997.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.

## Full analysis


### Overview

This is the public-facing website of the Weizmann Institute of Science, presenting research news, scientific features, events, campus information, academic programs, innovation and technology-transfer activities, and institutional contact services for public, academic, and visitor audiences.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

No contradictions were observed. The site presents a coherent academic-institutional purpose, with no detected phishing, brand-impersonation, or malicious-reputation indicators. It contains no login form, sensitive form, wallet connection, financial solicitation, or untrusted form destination in the reviewed content. Two suspicious inline scripts were recorded in technical telemetry, but the observed behavior showed no hidden forms, password submissions, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking; this isolated technical signal is not treated as evidence of impersonation or fraud.


Evidence:
- The archive record shows registration continuity from 1997, with a domain age of 28.82 years.
- The archive contains 793 snapshots spanning 1997–2025, covering 29 tracked years.
- The homepage is identified as “Weizmann Institute of Science” and contains research, faculty, graduate-study, events, and campus-service content rather than deceptive commercial or credential-capture material.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no phishing or impersonation finding.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The available pages are consistent with an established academic institution and apparently identify the Weizmann Institute of Science through the About, research, academic, innovation, and Contact sections. The reviewed material does not present a licensing claim or license number; given the stated academic and informational purpose, this is a disclosure point for any activity involving donations, education, technology transfer, or other transactions, not evidence of a scam. The real-world operator identity is not independently verified, so the on-site institutional identification should be treated as apparently legitimate rather than conclusive proof of legal ownership. A third-party broker-reputation check produced no matching adverse signal.


Evidence:
- The site’s hosting is identified as AS378, MACHBA-AS - IUCC - Israel InterUniversity Computation Center, IL.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by GEANT TLS RSA 1, uses Domain Validation (DV), and is valid through 2027-02-07.
- The homepage and institutional navigation expose About the Institute, faculties and departments, research, graduate studies, innovation and technology transfer, and Contact sections.
- The page footer includes an institutional address and contact telephone information.

### What to Verify Next

Before any credential or payment interaction, independently confirm that the institutional identity and intended recipient match records obtained through an offline or separately sourced official channel. Where a donation, course-related payment, licensing engagement, or other transaction is contemplated, review the applicable refund, payment-protection, privacy, and data-use terms and confirm the authorized payment route. The designated institutional contact and policy areas should be used as comparison points rather than treated as the sole basis for identity verification.


Evidence:
- The site provides dedicated Contact, About, and policy-related navigation areas for independent comparison.
- A cookie and privacy notice is presented to visitors, creating a defined point for reviewing data-handling terms before submission of personal information.
- The reviewed page set contains no sensitive form, so any later request for credentials or payment details should be assessed against the specific transaction context.

### Summary Verdict

The overall posture is **high trust and low risk**, and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate academic website. No contradictory signals were identified, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The site resolves through a single direct hosting path in Israel and no CDN was detected. This provides a clear infrastructure location but no edge-layer CDN/WAF mitigation; that deployment characteristic does not, by itself, indicate malicious activity.


### Closing Assessment

Routine informational browsing is appropriate; credential or payment interactions should proceed only after the ordinary independent identity, transaction-term, and payment-protection checks described above.


_Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._

## What the analysis found


No rule findings contributed to this verdict.

## Identity verification


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Status | LIKELY |
| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 80% |

- Identity verified on page
- Trusted social count=4

_Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence._

## What TrustSniffer observed

First-party facts recorded during the assessment of weizmann.ac.il.

- The request stayed on weizmann.ac.il. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1997-10-15. (Clear)
- It is hosted on MACHBA-AS, from a server in IL. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | Not available |
| Hosting | MACHBA-AS - IUCC - Israel InterUniversity Computation Center, IL |
| Country | IL |
| Server IP | 132.76.150.110 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | GEANT TLS RSA 1 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-02-07 |
| Domain age | 28.82 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 1997-10-15 |
| Archive snapshots | 793 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |

## About this assessment


A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about weizmann.ac.il at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.

TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/weizmann.ac.il) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/weizmann.ac.il · assessed 2026-08-13.*