New olim get a ten-year holiday from Israeli tax on foreign-source income. See your window, when it ends, and how the 2026 reporting change affects you.

Pick your target aliyah month and get a roadmap worked backwards — every phase in order, so nothing slow starts too late.

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A typical aliyah runs 6–12 months from first documents to landing. This lays the key phases out against your date.

See your name in Hebrew letters, and find the Hebrew date of any day that matters — your birthday, or your aliyah.

Lost in the bureaucracy? Type what you need to do and we’ll tell you which Israeli office handles it, what to bring, and when to go.

See what actually lands in your account — take-home pay after income tax, National Insurance and health, including the olim credit points that boost your first years.

Tell us your budget, community and lifestyle, and we’ll rank the Israeli cities that fit — a starting point for the search, not the last word.

Ship it or buy it there? Get a container recommendation, a cost range, and an item-by-item verdict based on where you’re moving from.

There's no single right answer — only the right answer for you. Tell us what actually matters, from your budget to your beach habit to how religious a street you want to raise kids on, and watch thirty-three olim communities sort themselves in real time.

When Karen's denial letter arrived, it contained a single operative sentence: the Ministry of Interior had determined that she was "a member of another religion" and therefore not entitled to make aliyah under the Law of Return.

Jonathan came to Easy Aliyah carrying serious medical conditions — and the very real fear of unplugging from a healthcare system he knew and trusting an unfamiliar one in a new country.

There are moments in this work that remind us why we do what we do. Helping Richard Trank settle into his new life in Israel was one of them.

On paper, the rule sounds simple: if you have one Jewish grandparent, you qualify for aliyah. Many families arrive at our office with exactly that line in their head, picked up from a cousin who made aliyah in 1995 or from a half-remembered article online. They produce a grandmother's ketubah, a great-uncle's grave inscription, a yellowing birth certificate from Łódź, and assume the matter is settled.

The short answer is no. And the longer answer is one of the strangest tensions in Israeli public life: a person can be unambiguously Jewish under halacha, the Orthodox rabbinate can accept them as Jewish without reservation, and the State of Israel can still refuse them citizenship under the Law of Return.

Most people planning their aliyah face the same impossible problem.

1.1 – So You Want to Make Aliyah (What Were You Thinking?) 1.2 – Am I Even Jewish Enough? The Law of Return, Eligibility, and Who Qualifies 1.3 – The Jewish Agency and NBN: Your New Best Friends (Whether You Like It or Not) 1.4 – Misrad HaKlita and the Alphabet Soup of Aliyah 1.5 – Picking a City: Promised Land Edition 1.6 – Making Aliyah as a Single Person: Freedom, Loneliness, and Why Everyone Will Try to Set You Up 1.7 – Making Aliyah in Retirement: The Financial Realities, the Healthcare, and the Senior Anglo Community Nobody Told You About

After the documents and the portal and the waiting and the additional documents and the further waiting, there is the interview. And the interview is, in my experience and the experience of almost everyone who has been through it, considerably less frightening than everything that preceded it suggests it should be.

You have, over the preceding sixteen episodes, gathered a remarkable collection of documents. Originals and copies. Apostilles and translations. Rabbi's letters and affidavits. Criminal certificates and health declarations. Forms you had never heard of six months ago and would happily never hear of again.

For most applicants, the standard document file covers everything that is required. But for a significant minority — those who have a previous connection to Israel, whether through prior residence, prior citizenship, an Israeli parent, or a previous aliyah — there are additional documents and a somewhat different process.

If you are making aliyah with children, I have some news for you. Specifically, I have the news that each child making aliyah requires their own set of documents, and that "their own set" means, in practice, their own birth certificate, their own passport, their own photographs, and in some cases their own additional documentation depending on their circumstances.

Many countries maintain centralised civil registries that record the personal status of their citizens — whether they are single, married, divorced, or widowed. Israel is one of them. In Israel, the Population Authority holds records of every resident's civil status, and this information is accessible to government offices as needed.