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Your first 30 days in Israel: opening your first accounts, understanding sal klita, and setting up the financial foundations.

Banking & Money

Choosing an Israeli bank, understanding the differences from your home country, and managing money across currencies.

Taxes

Israeli income tax, capital gains, and the foreign-resident exemptions Olim get during their first decade.

Housing

Renting your first apartment in Israel, mortgages for new immigrants, and the financial calculus of buying vs renting.

Investing

Investing through Israeli brokers, kupot gemel, keren hishtalmut, and how to think about retirement across countries.

Insurance & Bituach Leumi

National Insurance for Olim, choosing a kupat cholim, and the supplemental insurance worth carrying.

Translate the bank, the lease, the payslip.

Hebrew financial terms with English explanations, organized by where you actually meet them.

The words you meet at the counter.

Hebrew vocabulary for the bank, the payslip, the kupat cholim sign-up and the lease.

Eight tracks, start to finish.

Pick the one that matches where you are, read it in order, finish with the awkward questions answered.