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Making Aliyah: Your First 90 Days

A 6-chapter course for new olim: the ordered first-week checklist, the absorption basket, health coverage, ulpan, and the rights you don't know to ask about.

By skills-il·Version v1.0.0·Last updated: 30-05-2026·GitHub
6 chapters~14 minNon-technicalBeginner
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What you'll learn

  • ✓Identify the three critical week-one moves and do them in the right order
  • ✓Understand how Sal Klita is paid and why the bank account comes before the absorption meeting
  • ✓Know that health coverage applies from day one with no waiting period, and choose a fund calmly
  • ✓Use the ulpan and driver's-license windows before they close
  • ✓Learn the rights and benefits nobody surfaces, including the foreign-income tax exemption

Who this is for

New immigrants (olim) who just landed in Israel, or are about to, and want to move through the first 90 days in the order things actually need to happen.

Course curriculum

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  1. 1.
    The First Week: Three Deadlines That Can't Wait
    Most new olim arrive with a mental to-do list that has twenty items and no order. Bank, health fund, ID card, ulpan, driver's license, apartment, furniture, SIM card. They all feel equally urgent, so olim do them in whatever order they bump into them. That is the mistake. Three of those items sit on a critical path, and the rest can wait.
    ~3 min
  2. 2.
    Teudat Zehut, Teudat Oleh, and Misrad HaPnim
    Your identity documents are the keys that unlock everything else, and olim get them in two stages that are easy to confuse. Getting this wrong means showing up to open a bank account or register a child for school with the wrong document.
    ~2 min
  3. 3.
    Sal Klita and Your Bank Account
    Sal Klita, the absorption basket, is the cash the state gives new olim to land on their feet. Understanding how it is paid (and why the bank account has to come first) is the difference between a smooth first six months and a stressful one.
    ~2 min
  4. 4.
    Health Coverage From Day One
    Israel has universal health coverage, and as a new oleh you are inside it from arrival. The anxiety many olim carry about "getting insured" is misplaced; the real decisions are which fund and which supplemental tier, and those you can take calmly.
    ~2 min
  5. 5.
    Ulpan, Your License, and Housing
    This is the first-month-and-beyond wave: the things that matter enormously but are not week-one emergencies. The trap is that olim either rush them (signing a bad lease in a panic) or forget the deadlines attached to them (letting the license-conversion window or ulpan entitlement lapse).
    ~2 min
  6. 6.
    Knowing and Claiming Your Rights
    The first 90 days end with a long tail of rights and benefits that have no week-one deadline, which is exactly why olim miss them. Nobody chases you to claim a tax exemption or a Bituach Leumi entitlement. This chapter is the list of things you do not know to ask about.
    ~3 min

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What's new

  • 1.0.0
    New course: Making Aliyah: Your First 90 Days is now available(30-05-2026)

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