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Teudat Oleh: collecting your immigrant certificate at the airport

Ministry of Aliyah and Integration (airport desk)

The short answer

Applies to every new oleh. Your immigrant certificate, issued at Ben Gurion on arrival. It is the master key: banks, health funds and the Ministry all gate on it. We track no fixed deadline for this step: do it once what it depends on is done.

Checked on 2026-07-21 against the sources below. Confirm with Ministry of Aliyah and Integration (airport desk) before you rely on it.

Checked Confidence: medium, confirm before acting

Deadline

We track no fixed deadline for this step: do it once what it depends on is done.

Steps

  1. 1

    Apply

    Handled by Ministry of Aliyah and Integration (airport desk). Expect to go in person: it cannot be done fully online.

  2. 2

    Avoid a known trap

    Check the transliteration on the certificate before you leave the desk. Correcting it later is a formal request, not a self-service edit.

    Why: A name spelled differently here than on your passport cascades into failures at every later step, for years.

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