Stage 2 of 6
Applying
Opening your file with the Jewish Agency or Nefesh B’Nefesh, and the eligibility and document steps that go with it.
The essentials right now
- Guide
Guide for the New Immigrant
Every oleh right and process in one official document, so nothing is left on the table.
- Organisation
Garin Tzabar
Housing, community and lone-soldier support for serving in Israel without parents here.
- Guide
Lessons from an aliyah journey
Learn the expensive mistakes from someone who already made them.
- Guide
The document checklist
Twelve document categories checked off early, so nothing surfaces as missing weeks before your flight.
- Guide
Aliyah from within Israel
Become a citizen without leaving Israel if you are already here on a student, Masa or tourist visa.
- Guide
Shipping your lift: what it really costs
Budget the lift against real numbers: about $7,500 to $18,000 to ship, insurance at 2.5 to 3% of declared value, and port storage of NIS 110 to 300 a day if it sits.
- Guide
Aliyah flight luggage rules
Know the exact allowance before check-in: two bags at 50 lb included, a third for $100 prepaid instead of $200 at the airport.
- Guide
Your first steps after landing
Nine landing tasks in priority order, so the first fortnight does not become a month.
- Guide
Absorption first steps (government handbook)
The government’s own landing handbook, useful for structure and vocabulary. Do not trust a single figure in it.
- Official form
Health fund registration and the 90-day rule
Register with a health fund inside 90 days of arrival, or you lose the simple route and must do it at a branch.
- Directory
Ulpan options and learning Hebrew online
Start Hebrew before you land, and know that public ulpan runs 420 to 450 hours free while private ulpan may be reimbursable.
- Course
Ulpan Etzion: live-in intensive Hebrew
Five months of intensive Hebrew with accommodation included, for degree holders aged 22 to 35.