All Entries in the "Aliyah Something" Category
Making Aliyah: Paying for stuff (Hora’at Keva and Tashlumim)!
Hora’at keva is the term used for payments that are deducted straight from your bank account automatically.
For example, your health insurance/kupat cholim. Your phone bill. Your internet payment. Your electric bill. Your water bill. I think you get the idea. Pretty much the way things work here is that you need a credit card [...]
Making Aliyah: First steps upon arrival in Israel
When you arrive as an oleh, the first government office you meet with is Misrad Haklita. They have an office in the airport, and when you arrive you go to them. They give you your teudat oleh (the booklet that you use when you use your zechuyot (rights) for things like lifts, a car, [...]
Making Aliyah: The Flight (part II)
This is a bit more personal than the other entries as of yet. The actual making aliyah—the flight, the ceremony, the welcome…it’s something you can’t really depersonalize.
We were told to get on the flight. So we did—there was no boarding according to groups, seats, rows—none of that. It was “Board when you get there.” [...]
Making Aliyah: The Flight (part I)
Now the exciting part: The actual making aliyah…
I actually wasn’t quite sure when I became Israeli—when I got on the plane? When I landed? When I got my teudat oleh? It was confusing for a while, because I had my flight date and details, but I hadn’t actually made aliyah so was I an olah? [...]
Beginning the Aliyah Process
So continuing on with the aliyah process…
There is a lot that has to be done before you actually MAKE aliyah. There are applications to fill out, forms to give in, pictures to take, letters and proofs of…things (birth, residency, marriage/divorce if applicable, Jewishness). As you know, I went through an amazing organization called Nefesh [...]
Lauren’s story of how she made aliyah to Israel
Time for another new columnist to be launched into the realms of super-stardom, we thinks! Welcome to the world of Lauren, originally from the US, who describes how and why she gave up the good life back home to make aliyah to Israel, and what it’s like living in the Holy Land for a newbie…if [...]
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- Picture of the Week XLIV March 11, 2010
- Picture of the Week XLIII March 4, 2010
- Picture of the Week XLII February 25, 2010
- Picture of the Week XLI February 18, 2010
- A Toddler’s Guide to Nazareth February 16, 2010
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