Hey,
Hey, we opened a brand new category on the site, added new skills, and refreshed the facts in a lot of existing ones. Here's what's worth knowing.
New category: travel
We opened a new travel category, and the first skill in it is the abroad trip planner. It builds you an itinerary, hotels and attractions to match your budget and style, but the Israeli layer is the heart of it: visa requirements for an Israeli passport, travel warnings, passport validity and renewal, and health coverage through your HMO. On those safety-critical points it won't guess an answer from memory: it points you to the current official source and says plainly what has to be verified before you book, because those are exactly the things that change constantly and can turn you back at the border.
Flight comparison that actually compares
The flight comparison skill got a significant upgrade. Until now it mostly advised; now it genuinely compares. It builds pre-filled search links for your exact dates on Google Flights, Skyscanner and KAYAK, pulls the live prices and shows a real comparison table, without inventing prices.
New skill: healthcare payroll
A payslip for a nurse, physiotherapist, dietitian, pharmacist or doctor looks nothing like a private sector one, because it's set by collective agreements and pay tracks. The new skill identifies the right track, reads the combined salary by grade and seniority, adds the track-specific supplements like the nursing and continuing-education ones, calculates on-call and shift pay for doctors, and shows how gross becomes net.
Skills keep changing, and you can hear about it
We refresh existing skills all the time, because the numbers here keep moving: the Bank of Israel rate, VAT thresholds, benefit amounts. In the last few weeks alone the Bituach Leumi skill was rewritten, with wrong rules corrected and dead links replaced. The problem is there's no way to know about it. So if there's a skill you rely on, hit the heart on its page: it's saved to your personal list, and you get an in-app notification plus a weekly email every time it's updated.
And there's a community WhatsApp group
If you'd like to be part of the community, there's an active WhatsApp group where I share new things before anyone else and ask what to build next. It also has a bot that posts a daily and weekly recap, and if you tag it with a question it'll find the right skill from the catalog and answer. No spam, no marketing links.
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Have a great week,
Alex Choroshin
Founder, YooTech · Creator of Skills IL