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The organisations, apps and tools that help with life in Israel. Filter to what you need, and to what works in your language. Most of these serve anyone here, not only olim, so you can stop guessing whether a service is even for you.
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English-speaking lawyers grouped by region, with their bar admissions (US states and Israel) and specialties, vetted by the anglo community body.
Confirm any lawyer you find here in the Israel Bar Association register before hiring.
The single biggest bottleneck in your first 90 days, and the naming trap that sends people to the wrong booking system.
Two things to know. The Authority moved to GoVisit; MyVisit is the older parallel system still used elsewhere, so do not assume they are interchangeable. And booking requires an Israeli mobile number to receive the code, which is a genuine chicken-and-egg problem in week one: sort the SIM before you try to book. Call centre *3450, or +972-74-708-3450 from abroad.
The Population and Immigration Authority’s own booking portal for biometric ID and passport appointments.
An English version exists at en.govisit.co.il. Which system a given office uses, GoVisit or myVisit, depends on the office, so check both.
Check whether the person calling themselves a lawyer is actually a licensed Israeli advocate, in the official statutory register, with an English search.
Verify the licence here before you hire, and treat a listing in any community directory as a starting point, not proof of a licence.
Gets you through Israel’s religious bureaucracy: proving Jewish status, registering a marriage, conversion, burial and mikveh access, with free core assistance and a legal centre that litigates.
Case-based intake, +972-2-648-2205.
Find a licensed notary, which many olim need for apostilled documents, powers of attorney and status matters, in the Bar Association’s notary database.
Hebrew primary. The Ministry of Justice also maintains a notary search on gov.il.
Download digitally signed government documents (your ID appendix, vehicle licence), change your registered address and pay government fees, all under one gov.il login.
Needs your teudat zehut and gov.il identity verification. The store lists English, but the app content is Hebrew-first.
Book the appointments every oleh dreads, at the Interior Ministry, banks and government offices, and track the queue from your phone.
An Israeli phone number is commonly needed for SMS confirmation. Worth knowing before you rely on it: the Israeli App Store rating sits around 1.8 out of 5.
The only body that can confirm your Law of Return eligibility if you or your parents were born in the former Soviet Union, and issue the oleh visa.
Start with the online questionnaire at aliyaform.nativ.gov.il, then apply through your local Jewish Agency office or the Israeli mission’s NATIV department. No commercial "preparation" company is state-accredited.
Recorded walkthroughs of the things that are hardest to read about: your first steps after landing, registering a marriage, how the elections work.
The official seven-step aliyah process and a multilingual hotline, at no cost.
One-on-one help navigating the bureaucracy, with a dedicated healthcare-rights division that walks you through the Israeli health system, plus emergency food and accommodation help.
Jerusalem-based, largely email and online intake, at info@yadlolim.org.
A community-vetted list of accountants who actually handle both US and Israeli tax, the combination most Israeli accountants never touch.
For US olim, insist on demonstrated US-Israel dual expertise: the tax treaty, FBAR and FATCA, and PFIC exposure. Ignore anonymous star ratings; rely on the licence register plus a referral from a body like AACI.
Israel’s default way to send money to a person: split rent, pay the gan group, get paid back. "Just Bit me" is standard here.
The real barrier: it requires an Israeli-issued payment card and an Israeli phone number, so it is one of the first things that unlocks only after your bank account exists.
Pay and get paid the way Israelis actually do, which many landlords and sellers expect.
The authority itself, in six languages including Russian, French and Amharic, rather than someone’s summary of it.
Before you travel to a branch: as of this check, National Insurance branches are closed to the public and appointment holders are served by telephone instead.
Use the locator to confirm the notice is still up before you travel anywhere. Call centre *6050 or 04-881-2345.
For oleh scientists: placement into Israeli R&D networks and academic institutes, plus support that subsidises institutions and ventures for taking on an oleh scientist.
Compares your supermarket basket across every major chain near you, because chains must publish prices by law. The literal "don’t be a sucker" tool.
Hebrew-only interface, so a non-Hebrew reader will need help or a translation app alongside it.
The full taxonomy, for finding entitlements you did not know existed. Two that anglophone olim miss most: the international social security conventions and the savings plan for every child.
The conventions page is the one to read if you paid into a social security system before aliyah: it governs whether those contributions count toward your Israeli entitlement.
The master list of every Israel Innovation Authority programme, so you can find the fast-track, pilot, feasibility and innovation-visa routes beyond the headline funds.
The most complete index of Israeli social rights there is, including rent assistance, tax credit points and public housing for olim.
Confirm an accountant holds an active Israeli CPA licence before you hand over your tax files, in the official Ministry of Justice register.
Hebrew only. The same list is published as an open dataset, updated daily, at data.gov.il/dataset/cpalist.
Check that a "tax advisor" is licensed to represent you before the Tax Authority: only licensed yoatzei mas, CPAs and lawyers may.
Hebrew only.
Up to 5 free hours of consulting to establish a business, or up to 20 to grow an existing one, plus business-plan preparation for financing. Almost entirely free.
Almost everything is free; only preparation of a business model carries a NIS 250 charge. Five regional centres, from the North to the Negev.
Jerusalem small-business help with a named olim track: Maalot Jerusalem, business assistance for new olim and returning residents, alongside consulting, business-plan building and loan sourcing.
Hebrew-first: an English section link exists but the operational site and tools are Hebrew. Jerusalem only; MATI is a network of separate regional centres. Phone 02-6794242.
The source of the actual money and rights: the sal klita calculator, your olim personal account for benefits and certificates, absorption counselling and the acclimation-year request.
Information centre *2994 or +972-3-973-3333, Sunday to Thursday 08:00 to 18:00, with phone service in seven languages. The site itself is English and Hebrew.
Low and no-interest loans paired with financial mentoring, from a social lender founded to serve the Russian and Ethiopian aliyah waves. Over 83,000 loans made.
Application flows skew Hebrew. Founded to serve olim, but we could not confirm a current olim-specific loan track on the pages we opened, so treat the olim angle as heritage rather than a named product.
The other big person-to-person payment app, strongest for group collections: class gifts, event pots, shared presents.
Two barriers: the interface is Hebrew only, and it needs an Israeli payment card.
Your account with the state: benefit status, contribution history and the printable authorisations that mortgages, schools and municipalities keep demanding.
Two credentials, and they are not the same thing. An internet user code and password, age 18 and up, for the website. A separate PIN code, age 16 and up, for phone and in-person service, generated in your account and posted to you within seven days. Start this in week one, because the post is the bottleneck. Support 04-881-2245, Sunday to Thursday 08:00 to 17:00.
Cut the recurring costs that quietly set your monthly budget, rather than the one-off ones. Every figure is dated, so you can see how fresh it is before you act on it.
English only. Covers standing savings anyone in Israel can use, so it does not track your oleh benefit windows: those stay here, on your own benefits clock.
The olim-specific startup track: needs mapping, business-model and business-plan help, a subsidised start-up course, tax advice and preferential-terms loans.
Phone the Start-Up Desk on 03-5501128 (second line 03-6335549) or email; there is no online form.
Appointments, test results, telemedicine and pharmacy stock for Israel’s largest health fund.
Needs Clalit membership and your teudat zehut. Expect a Hebrew-first experience; the separate Clalit NEXT telehealth app advertises Hebrew, English and Arabic.
Know this before you default into Clalit: the largest fund, and the one you are auto-assigned to if you choose nothing, has no working English member site.
For choosing between funds in English, use the Nefesh B’Nefesh comparison rather than Clalit’s own site. Maccabi and Leumit maintain real English sections; Meuhedet is thin; Clalit is effectively absent in English.
A free, anonymous emotional first-aid line staffed in English specifically for the stress of aliyah.
Phone *3201. Hours Sunday to Thursday 14:00 to 21:00 Israel time.
The gap the health funds do not fill: a directory of English-speaking therapists, psychiatrists and support groups, vetted for accredited training.
The switching mechanics stated by a fund itself, including the rule that if you held the top supplemental tier at your old fund, you are auto-enrolled in the top tier here with no waiting period.
Support *3833. English sub-pages exist but link out to Hebrew destinations, so coverage is shallow beyond the top level.
A 24/7 emotional-support hotline with dozens of therapists, weekly subsidised therapy, emergency food cards and legal contract review, in a range of languages, and turned away for no one over money.
The hotline is the fast path; email at info@keepolim.org is volunteer-run and can take days. Services offered in 15 languages.
Appointments, lab results, messaging your doctor and reimbursement claims for Leumit members.
Needs Leumit membership and your teudat zehut. The listing shows English and the description is bilingual.
A health fund with a named English-speaking representative for olim, and a route to keep full medical rights when transferring from another fund.
Hotline *507. The site names a specific English-speaking representative rather than a general queue.
Book appointments, see lab results, request prescriptions and manage your family’s care at Maccabi.
Needs Maccabi membership and your teudat zehut to register. The store lists English, but reviews report it runs Hebrew-first in practice, so expect heavy Hebrew.
The one health fund with a genuinely maintained English section, plus a 24-hour English call centre and after-hours house calls.
Supplemental enrolment line *4535. Tier prices are not published online: you have to ask.
How to find the Israeli equivalent of a foreign prescription by active ingredient, with the honest warning that the tool is Hebrew only.
Hebrew only, with no English toggle. Bring the active-ingredient name from your home prescription and, ideally, a Hebrew reader. The registry itself warns that some data may be incomplete and points to the Pharmacy Division for verified information.
The crisis numbers on one official page, including an immigrant support line, plus the fact that psychiatric emergency care is free and needs no referral.
Appointments, online doctor visits with digital prescriptions, records and results for Meuhedet members.
Needs Meuhedet membership and your teudat zehut.
Borrow a wheelchair, crutches, oxygen, a hospital bed or baby equipment for free, from 127 branches, instead of buying it.
Walk into any branch, or call *6444. A refundable deposit is required and the amount is not published, so ring first.
Subsidised housing with ulpan on site, five hours a day for five months, while you find your feet.
Israel’s national public housing company: if you are eligible for public housing, this is who places you in a unit and manages the tenancy, rent, repairs and rights transfer.
Hebrew only: a non-Hebrew speaker will need help or the phone line, *6266 or 03-6935500. Head office at 26 Harokemim Street, Holon.
The main alternative to Pango for phone-paid street parking, with start and stop reminders.
Car registration and a credit card are required.
Compare about 25 communities in one place, plus how to read Yad2 and Madlan listings properly.
Do the change-of-account-holder transfer the day you move in, or you inherit the previous tenant’s debt or get cut off.
The catch: the /en/ pages serve Hebrew content, and the self-service portal and app run in Hebrew and Arabic only. There is no functional English self-service, so line up a Hebrew speaker for this one.
The English-language route into the housing market, plus a curated directory of the city Facebook groups where a large share of anglo rentals actually transact before they hit Yad2.
Realistically the English sites carry a fraction of the inventory. For the full market you need Hebrew, the Yad2 crib sheet, or a broker.
Real-time rocket and missile alerts for your exact location, with the safe-room instructions, even when you cannot hear the street siren.
Install this first and enable location and notifications. On Android the alert sounds even on silent; on iOS the device vibrates. Android: search com.alert.meserhadash on Google Play.
Pay for any bus, train or light rail straight from your phone by QR scan, with no card to load first.
A credit or debit card is required. You pay per ride.
The busiest English board in Israel for the things you actually need on week one: a room, a job, a second-hand fridge, someone who has done this before.
Sanity-check an asking price before you commit: recorded transaction prices, price-per-sqm trends, school catchments and whether a tower is about to block your light.
Hebrew only, no English version.
Which bus or train to take and when it actually arrives, in real time, anywhere in Israel.
Works fully in English. Free, with optional in-app ticket purchases.
Pay for blue-and-white street parking by phone in almost every city, with the best English interface of the parking apps.
Needs your car registration number and a credit card; parking is billed with a small service fee. Install the Israeli listing, not the unrelated American "Pango Parking".
Top up your physical Rav-Kav transit card from your phone with a credit card, instead of queuing at a station kiosk.
Needs a physical Rav-Kav card, a credit card, and an NFC phone to load the card by tapping it. Do not confuse it with the separate "Rav-Kav by HopOn" app; this is the one tied to ravkavonline.co.il.
Subsidised sheltered housing aimed explicitly at elderly immigrants and Holocaust survivors, in dozens of "Golden Age" residences where most residents are olim from the former Soviet Union.
Apply as early as you possibly can, or treat it as unavailable: sheltered housing runs waitlists. The site is Hebrew only, so line up a Hebrew speaker or use the phone line, *8758 or moked@amigour.co.il, 08:00 to 17:00.
A second, often faster alert feed for Red Alerts (Tzeva Adom), useful as a backup to the official app.
A backup, not a replacement. Keep the official Home Front Command app installed as your primary source.
The navigation app Israel actually drives with, Israeli-built, with live traffic and hazard reports.
Restaurant and grocery delivery in Israeli cities, fully usable in English from start to finish.
Foreign cards are generally accepted, so it works before your Israeli bank does.
The one app almost everyone uses to find an apartment, a job, a used car or second-hand furniture. If you need to find or buy something in Israel, start here.
Hebrew-only, so run Google Translate’s camera or browser extension over it. Nefesh B’Nefesh publishes a field-by-field crib sheet at nbn.org.il/yad2 for the search form, and filtering for private listings skips broker fees.
Where the real rental inventory is, including most private no-agent listings. Paired with the crib sheet that makes its Hebrew-only form usable.
Hebrew-only interface, no English version. Use the Nefesh B’Nefesh crib sheet at nbn.org.il/yad2 alongside it, and filter for private listings to skip broker fees.
The largest general job board in Israel, across every field and seniority. The default first stop for a job search.
Hebrew-only interface. Run Google Translate’s browser extension over it to search and read postings in English.
Israel’s single largest job database, over 30,000 open positions, with alerts and application tracking.
Predominantly Hebrew listings, and a Hebrew CV is usually expected.
A funded 16-week apprenticeship in Haifa that turns people into AI builders, not just users: a stipend, no tuition, and job-placement support at the end. Immigrants with skills but a language barrier are one of its named target groups.
Disclosure: BuildHaifa is an initiative of Aliyahu’s founder. It has not launched yet, and is building employer partnerships and funding toward a first cohort of about 24, starting with displaced tech professionals. Register your interest rather than expecting an open cohort today.
The other major Israeli job board, worth searching alongside AllJobs so you do not miss listings posted to only one.
Hebrew-only. Use it as a second board next to AllJobs, since employers do not always post to both.
A major Israeli job search engine with swipe-style search by title, company and location.
Hebrew-first, and a Hebrew CV is usually expected.
Free job placement help aimed at English-speaking olim, including employer introductions.
Free retraining into hi-tech sales, digital marketing, UX writing or full-stack development through the Career UpGrade programme.
A new government-funded professional network for English-fluent olim in tech, extending the Nevo model beyond its selective fellowship. First cohorts: olim reservists and women in tech.
Reach it through its own LinkedIn page or through Nevo Network. Cohorts are selected rather than open-enrolment, with city hubs in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the South.
A personal mentor and HR consultants who repackage your foreign experience for the Israeli job market, heavily subsidised: about ₪450 after an 85% subsidy.
Rolling admission, no fixed start date. Apply online, or call 09-790-4723. Offices in Raanana.
The master index for licensing any of the 23 regulated health professions in Israel, so you start from the right page rather than a forum thread.
The index and descriptions are in English, but several sub-files, the legislation and some registries are Hebrew only.
The practical companion to the licence: a physician-olim hub with a guide e-book, a 300-hour medical Hebrew ulpan, and the Hebrew proficiency exam that is now a precondition for a licence or internship.
A direct on-ramp into Israeli hi-tech for recent graduates: intensive coding or data-science training that ends in the Israeli job market, with olim scholarships.
English-taught. New immigrants and returning citizens qualify for a 7,000 NIS scholarship, and MASA scholarships stack on top, so confirm the current figures when you apply.
A second, different English job pool: more small-business and part-time work, with a daily digest.
Free enforcement of your employment rights, whatever your status: if a first Israeli employer is shorting you on pension, overtime or havraa pay, this is the address.
Site sections run in Hebrew, English and Arabic, with Russian and Thai channels, but the deeper rights tools skew Hebrew. Case intake can be slow.
Real, crowdsourced Israeli tech salaries in shekels before you negotiate, with dedicated Tel Aviv and Israel pages.
Global and heavily tech-skewed, so it is useful for tech roles and little help for anything else.
Where most tech, startup and English-language professional roles in Israel are posted, and the network that fills many of them.
Works fully in English. Set your location to Israel and turn on job alerts; a warm introduction through your network beats a cold application.
An Israel job board, resume submission to a placement team and short retraining tracks (hi-tech sales, digital marketing, UX writing, full stack) for a career pivot.
Primarily serves olim from North America and the UK. Phone 1-866-4-ALIYAH from North America, 02-659-5800 in Israel.
For olim already in tech: free micro-mentorship with an experienced oleh who has navigated the ecosystem, plus a selective leadership fellowship and a venture studio.
The Fellowship is closed-door and selected in spring; a new oleh starts with Nevo Advisors or studios@nevonetwork.org.
For experienced developers: a placement service that matches olim engineers with Israeli hi-tech roles, free to the candidate because the employer pays.
Free to the oleh candidate; employers pay for placement. Founded 2020, Jerusalem. Aimed at experienced developers, not entry level.
The largest English-language jobs board in Israel, covering shift work, teaching and nannying as well as tech.
Over 1,000 live roles from more than 280 companies that are explicitly open to English speakers. Free to search and apply.
The jobs section of the classifieds site you are already using for an apartment, strong on local, hourly and small-business roles.
Hebrew-only, same crib-sheet and translation approach as the Yad2 apartment search.
Career, leadership and AI-upskilling programs for professionals repositioning for an AI-shaped job market, useful if you are rebuilding a career after aliyah.
Disclosure: this is by Aliyahu’s founder. It is one paid option among many, so weigh it against the free and subsidised routes first: NBN Career UpGrade, the ulpan voucher, and Israel Tech Challenge with its olim scholarships.
Free daily Hebrew practice, genuinely useful for the alphabet and basics before or alongside ulpan.
Honest limit: it will not get you to conversation speed on its own, and it is a complement to ulpan, not a replacement.
Point your camera at a Hebrew letter from the bank or the iriya and read it in English, or download Hebrew for offline translation with no signal.
The camera mode is the one to learn first: hold it over a Bituach Leumi letter, an arnona bill, a lease or a street sign and it overlays the English live. Download the Hebrew pack for offline use. On a computer, install the Google Translate browser extension to turn any Hebrew government website into English in one click.
The verb-conjugation reference every Hebrew learner ends up using: 9,000+ words with full tables, in an English interface.
The Hebrew ulpan never teaches: actual street slang and the register Israelis really speak in, in short episodes.
Five months of intensive Hebrew with accommodation included, for degree holders aged 22 to 35.
Start Hebrew before you land, and know that public ulpan runs 420 to 450 hours free while private ulpan may be reimbursable.
Find providers, therapists, funding and other parents before you arrive, not after.
The single largest gateway to a subsidised gap year, degree, yeshiva or seminary year, internship or career program in Israel for young diaspora Jews, and a common on-ramp to aliyah.
Search by track: gap year, academic, career and professional training, or the Modern Orthodox yeshiva and seminary year. Scholarships stack with olim benefits, and several programs lead naturally into aliyah.
A free, state-funded way for a Jewish teenager from the diaspora to finish high school in Israel, boarding, ahead of or without the rest of the family.
For teens roughly 15 to 17 at entry, with religious, secular and specialised streams and English-track options. Apply from your home country about a year ahead.
Housing, community and lone-soldier support for serving in Israel without parents here.
A structured route into the army with a cohort of about twenty and somewhere to live, for 18 to 24 year olds arriving without parents here.
The Garin Tzabar application and the aliyah application are two separate procedures that must run in parallel. Assuming one covers the other is a common and expensive mistake.
Klita counselling from people who did it, plus vetted accountant, lawyer and adviser directories. Join inside your first year and the second year is free.
Membership price is not published on the site. You have to ask.
For North American and other English-speaking olim: klita guidance, benefits counselling, employment and social programming, and branches in the main cities.
Some services are membership-based. Branches in Jerusalem, Netanya, Beer Sheva and elsewhere.
Klita counselling before, during and after aliyah, plus legal and tax consultations, open to any English speaker.
Insider city tours for newcomers, special-interest groups and volunteering, in the largest English-speaking volunteer network in the country.
Use the bare address. The older /home.html path that many guides and search results still point at now returns a 404.
The antidote to the loneliest part of year one: insider city tours, social programmes and volunteering with other English speakers.
An atlas of over 1,400 hand-picked spots across Israel, from hidden springs and tzaddik graves to bakeries and viewpoints, with day-trip routes.
Disclosure: this is made by Aliyahu’s founder. Free to browse; a $12 lifetime membership unlocks route planning, saved trips and the offline atlas. There is no App Store or Play listing; it is a web app.
The Spanish and Portuguese equivalent, 70+ years old with 20+ branches: bureaucratic accompaniment, housing guidance, credential recognition, a mental-health line and support for lone soldiers.
WhatsApp +972 55 2576767 or oficinacentral@olei.org.il. Head office at HaMarmorek 9, Tel Aviv.
Pre-aliyah guidance plus referrals for LGBTQ-friendly housing, health services, therapists and synagogues.
City groups designed so you can build a social circle without Hebrew fluency, in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Be’er Sheva, plus a free LGBTQ-friendly ulpan.
A national helpline, a discrimination reporting centre and free legal aid covering family, employment and immigration matters.
Helpline *2982, Sunday to Thursday 09:30 to 18:00 Israel time.
The map an English-speaking LGBTQ oleh actually needs: who exists, what each does and which ones run in your language.
Find an egalitarian, non-Orthodox kehilla: more than 40 congregations, plus egalitarian weddings, b’nai mitzvah and conversion.
A language trap worth knowing before you start: the English entry point redirects to a foundation page, and the congregation finder itself runs in Hebrew only. An English speaker cannot complete the find-a-community task on this site without help.
The only English aliyah podcast publishing reliably, and it mixes real stories with money and paperwork specifics.
Spanish-language help from the airport onward, including someone meeting you on arrival.
The advocacy voice for the roughly 1.2 million Russian-speaking Israelis: campaigning on absorption, conversion and religion-and-state issues that hit FSU olim hardest.
An advocacy and campaigning body more than a personal-services desk. Site is Hebrew-first; also on LinkedIn as "One Million Lobby".
The umbrella organisation for French-speaking olim: a job hub, a rights centre, an entrepreneurship programme in Jerusalem and aliyah assistance, all in French.
Contact +972-77-9727-555 or contact@qualita.org.il, Sunday to Thursday 09:00 to 18:00.
The francophone umbrella: employment hub, rights centre and a helpline, in French.
The whole Jewish library in your pocket, Hebrew and English side by side, and fully offline once downloaded.
Guides in your own language if you are coming from Europe or Latin America, the countries the big pipeline organisations do not cover.
For Southern African and Australian olim: klita counselling, employment help, subsidised rental apartments in its own buildings, scholarships and lone-soldier support.
Subsidised housing stock is limited to its own buildings. Contact via the site form.
Someone to escalate for you when a government office says no, including at Knesset level. Free.