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Happy Independence Day! 🇮🇱 Israel turns 78 today, and we put together a small gift: 4 new features, 3 new bundles and 12 new skills. The big ones: a Verified ✓ badge flagging skills that passed every security check, a direct connection to Claude (no trip to the site), a personalized home-page banner, and a weekly digest for the skills you follow.
Verified ✓ badge
We check every skill on 15 security criteria: Sigstore release signing, secret scanning, org-wide MFA, automatic code scanning, and more. A skill that passes all 5 critical checks earns a green Verified ✓ badge on its page. Easy to see which skills are safe to install, no deep technical review needed.
Skills IL inside Claude
You can now use Skills IL inside your Claude chat, no trip to the website. Add us once as a Connector, and search, browse, and try skills right from the chat. Developers on Cursor, Windsurf, or Claude Code can hook up the same MCP server there too.
Weekly digest for what you follow
Hearted a skill or MCP? You'll now get a weekly email summarizing the week's updates: new versions, improvements, and fixes. One email a week instead of a ping per change. You can turn it off in notification preferences on your profile page.
Personalized home-page banner
Logged-in users now get a personal greeting on the home page, for example 'Yalla [your name], let's go?', and it rotates on every visit. There's also a changing 'did you know' tip (for example 'Did you know the stats dashboard shows which skills and bundles are most popular this week?'), a count of unread skill updates, and quick links to your personal list and the stats dashboard.
3 new skill bundles
Since the last update we added 3 new skill bundles: Olim Chadashim Starter Kit (your first 30 days in Israel: kupat cholim, bank, housing, social security, converting a driver's license), Job Hunt IL (bilingual CV to signed contract, with salary negotiation and unemployment benefits between jobs), and Fines Fighter IL (cancel parking tickets, appeal arnona, challenge bureaucratic decisions).
Jerusalem Train Voucher
Riding the Jerusalem line? Generates a direct link to the free voucher booking page with the train number pre-filled. No more forgetting the voucher is required on top of Rav-Kav.
Israeli CV Builder
Hebrew or English CV in the Israeli format: one page, reverse chronological, military service section. Auto-omits fields illegal to require: age, photo, marital status, religion.
Employment Contract Reviewer
Paste a contract before signing, get a red-flag review: Section 14 issues, unenforceable non-competes, notice periods below the legal minimum, and at-will clauses that don't exist under Israeli labor law. Outputs a negotiation memo to send back.
Unemployment Benefits Navigator
Laid off, on unpaid leave, or thinking of resigning? Checks your eligibility (12 qualifying months out of 18), calculates your benefit under 2026 brackets, and maps how many days you're entitled to (50 to 300). Also warns you upfront about the 90-day waiting period if you resigned.
Tender Proposal Builder
Submitting a proposal for a government, municipal, or framework tender? Reads the tender documents, extracts threshold conditions, builds a compliance checklist, and drafts every proposal section under Israeli tender law (affidavits, past-experience table, pricing sheet). Saves hours and prevents disqualification on technicalities.
Hebrew Survey Builder
Want to run an NPS, CSAT, or post-event feedback survey? Drafts the questions in natural Israeli Hebrew and ships them as a live Google Form. Comes with a timing guide for Israeli audiences. Hint: Friday afternoons and holiday weeks tank response rates.
Did you know?
Sigstore, the system Skills IL uses to sign releases, launched in March 2021 from Red Hat, Google and the Linux Foundation. It emerged during a wave of supply-chain attacks, including SolarWinds, and today it is the main open-source standard for signing software. It proves that a piece of code you installed really came from its original source, not swapped out somewhere along the way.
And thank you for being part of this
Skills IL has already helped a lot of people in Israel. Every week I get messages from someone who saved hours of work or cleared a bureaucratic hurdle, and none of it happens without you. If you want to hear what's next, I'm most active on LinkedIn, feel free to follow or connect with me there.
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Have a great week,
Alex Choroshin
Founder, YooTech · Creator of Skills IL