All Entries Tagged With: "aliyah"
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 [...]
A (First) Year in the Life of an Oleh Chadash
‘Tis the season. For looking back and Top Ten lists, I mean. Especially this year, as we say good riddance bye to the aughts. I’ll spare you my thoughts on the decade, because you’ve probably read a jillion recaps already and plus, it doesn’t make sense for this column. Most of [...]
The 12 8 days of Xmas Hanukkah
“Make this week’s column about Christmas.”
That was the stern edit hammered down upon me by iGoogledIsrael’s editor, Ashley. Actually, Ashley’s British, so this sounded more like Ahem, Scott, if you would be so kind, could you please focus the next column around Christmas in Israel, right? I mean, really, Chap, it’s not a must, but you know, [...]
Making Aliyah: uncovering the Tel Aviv gay scene
There’s a New Girl in town, ladies. For the first six months since making Aliyah last March, I did not go out very much. Intensive ulpan and full-time employment made it virtually impossible. But after completing kita alef a few months ago, I’ve been making more forays into what Tel Aviv’s gay scene has to offer. Here’s a bit [...]
Tel Aviv: One Big Parking Lot
“That’s OK, we can walk to the curb from here.”
Annie Hall fans will recognize the famous quote Woody Allen says to Diane Keaton after her awful parking job in 1977’s Best Picture. If that film were remade in Tel Aviv today, the dialogue could make sense rewritten as –
ANNIE HALL: “Wow, a parking spot!”
ALVY [...]
Keeping tabs on Israeli fashion & culture!
OK, so time for another new columnist, we thinks! Welcome to the world of Simona, originally from the US, who will be keeping you updated with Israeli fashion, style and pop culture. Crikey, does that mean I have to dump my flip-flops…?! Stay tuned if you want to know what’s happening and hip in Israel…and [...]
Israel: a dog’s best friend
Two weeks ago I rescued a dog from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Israel, one of several animal shelters in Tel Aviv. My family always had dogs as pets, and I thought adopting my first puppy would add a dimension of fullness to my fledgling life here in Tel Aviv. The special [...]
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- 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
- Picture of the Week XL February 11, 2010
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- Israel hearing condemnation of settlement plans (source: israelherald.com) March 10, 2010
- Faction heads ask Biden for Pollard’s release (source: israelherald.com) March 10, 2010
- Peres asks leading rabbi to compromise on conversion bill (source: bignewsnetwork.com) March 10, 2010
- Corrie family lawyer demands new IDF criminal probe (source: bignewsnetwork.com) March 10, 2010
- Hundreds hold mock Seder to highlight hungry children plight (source: bignewsnetwork.com) March 10, 2010
- Woman arrested for suspected euthanasia attempt on son (source: bignewsnetwork.com) March 10, 2010
