Our Little Corner: List of people, organisations etc. that may come in handy when making Aliyah

List of people, organisations etc. that may come in handy when making Aliyah

סוכנות היהודית - האגף לשירותי עלייה

English Desk, Global Service Center

The Jewish Agency for Israel

Israel: 1-800-228-055

USA: 1-866-835-0430

Canada: 1-866-421-8912

Great Britain / United Kingdom: 0-800-051-8227

Australia: 1-800-445-781

South Africa: 0-800-996-886

Holland: 0-800-022-1498

gci-en@jafi.org

Check our websites: http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Aliyah/

https://www.jewishagency.org Aliyah | The Jewish Agency for Israel - U.S.

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Rabbi Dr. Yosef P. Glassman, MD CEO, Hadarta.org - hadarta613@gmail.com

Platinum Realty, Join our Israel Real-Estate WhatsApp group to stay updated, and be the first to hear about opportunities: https://chat.whatsapp.com/FAWlq3WAHhEIl6YsAAjJs2, Nahum Haftsadi Street 17, Jerusalem, Israel, 001917-672-8460

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YouTube channel – We uploaded a number of really informative webinars about different communities throughout Israel. We’re going to upload more videos about a variety of topics that are useful for Olim so check it out.

AngloList https://anglo-list.com

Dovid Preil https://www.linkedin.com/in/dovid-preil

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www.janglo.net

www.anglomedia.net

Tzvi Yurman rbsgemach@gmail.com

Tax Advisors: Braude Wealth, PO Box 90064, Ramat Beit Shemesh, 9919001 Israel

Elisha Bruck of NBN

Lema'an Achai | Lema'an Achai

Shemeshphone, the organization that creates the digital and hard-copy Beit Shemesh phonebook is also an Anglo-friendly news service that has a whatsapp group with news updates. To join, click here: https://sheme.sh/7hJJ

Chadashot News is a Beit Shemesh-based, Israeli, chareidi-run news service that is now available in English translation. To join, click here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Fz8HdGvGw4cH3IRCHcpIvf

Subscribe to the "BSNewcomers" Google Groups group, send an email to olim-2020+subscribe@googlegroups.com, which will entitle you to receive eMails from bsnewcomers@gmail.com.

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/olim-2020/4c6c4a2a-d263-4eec-a58d-ca44d55c6e18n%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Shemeshphone's website: https://www.shemesh.co.il/en/

- please note, if you are unable to obtain a hard copy of the phonebook, you can look up whatever you need here!

Click here to Chat with the ShemeshBot!

To get updates, news and events in Beit Shemesh, join our no-chatter WhatsApp group! Click here to join: https://sheme.sh/7hJJ

Click here to join our no-chatter Telegram channel: https://t.me/BeitShemeshUpdates

Gemachs for Newcomers

There are two women who run gemachim special for new olim (including large items such as appliances and furniture): 055 923 4160 is Dvora Sanders and 058 689 0103 is Michal Pupkin. Devorah Klein has an oven, gas stove and shabbos urn to lend and you can reach her at 050 569 9383. Here is the link to a virtual gemach specially made for newcomers to use, where you can contact the person offering the item directly: bit.ly/CheckvGmach.

There is also a toy gemach for families whose lifts haven't come yet and need toys and games to entertain their kids. For more information or to arrange borrowing, you can contact Rachel Leah Lovat at 058 652 0985.

There are many more gemachim in the neighborhood, see the Shemeshphone phonebook for the full list.

Networking Groups

Some of the social media groups include RBS and RBS Women groups on facebook, and if you search the name of your particular neighborhood within Beit Shemesh, there is a good chance you will find a neighborhood Facebook Group as well.

There are many helpful whatsapp groups:

-for Anglos: please fill in the following request form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVWw2bA7mOdYY2u0xAHirzL-GrKtdcAQlvUxlHl4jNwd5B2g/viewform

-for dealing with Bureaucratic issues in Israel shorturl.at/jrCEZ

-a whatsapp for babysitting - https://chat.whatsapp.com/LH6NF5phELo9OiJrtEhTLT

-a whatsapp to find/offer rides - https://chat.whatsapp.com/HhWg59hcgrx6B6xnsg7CwU

-for object rental - bit.ly/CheckvGmach (no charge for borrowing from here)

- privately reselling of items people no longer need -- https://chat.whatsapp.com/LEHrHEtpBeUEbCY9BzRrgp

- for people to swap or give away items, -- https://chat.whatsapp.com/IsEStnWS2sXAeacYemDnKH

There is a business gemach run by Yosef Kornbluth to help you get started running your business. His number is 054 258 3900.

See attached for a list of local grocery stores that deliver and local restaurants that have a Mehadrin hechsher (some people exclusively keep mehadrin 'level' hechsherim in Israel. You can ask a shyla to see what is right for you.) Please note that Beit Shemesh is a continuously growing city and the attachments are not perfectly up to date. For example, a few Mehadrin eateries have established themselves in the HaSdera Mall on Nahar HaYarkon in RBSA.

Nefesh b'Nefesh Go North – Facebook Group

Nefesh B'Nefesh Israel Job Board

https://www.nbn.org.il Rights and Benefits

LARA ITZHAKI Israel: +972-52-380-6020, US: 347-630-9827, litzhaki@olimadvisors.com

RAFI SHULMAN +9725-58-480-6012 (WhatsApp & Israel number), US: 917-675-5241

rshulman@olimadvisors.com / https://www.facebook.com/olimadvisors/ / www.olimadvisors.com

https://www.kolzchut.org.il - Public Housing for New Immigrants (Olim)

Haifa Aliyah – Facebook Group

Secret Jerusalem – Facebook Group

Secret Tel Aviv – Facebook Group

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