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Klitah News - November 12, 2009
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.jpg) Ministry of Absorption
The Minister of Immigrant Absorption’s Yuri Stern
Prize for Immigrant Artists
The Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Sofa Lavdver, M.K., will award prizes for excellence and achievements to immigrant artists who have made a special contribution to culture and society.
The prized will e awarded as a sign of Israeli society’s appreciation and esteem of immigrants artists.
Eligible for the prize: are immigrant artists, over the age of 21, who are Israeli citizens and who reside in Israel on a permanent bases, who arrived in the country after September 1, 1989, and Ethiopian immigrants who arrived after January 1, 1984.
The Prize will be awarded in the following fields:
The prize regulations, application forms and forms for other prizes, can be downloaded from the Ministry’s Website: www.klita.gov.il
The deadline for submitting nominations for the Minister of Immigrant Absorption’s Yuri Stern Prize is December 6, 2009.
Further details are available from the secretary of the Senior Division of Community Absorption: (02) 6752752, (02) 6752782
Good Luck
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  Thinking of Israel as your home?
The Jewish Agency, in conjunction with The Ministry of Interior, are working together in order to help you change your status from within Israel through a personal and swift service.
This service includes:
* Assistance with organizing forms and documentation.
* Validating Preparation of Aliyah forms for Eligibility
* Exclusive meetings with an interior ministry representative.
* Customized absorption plan.
* Receipt of your Israeli ID card in a special ceremony
* Personal guidance by an absorption specialist
For more information and registration
We welcome you to contact us toll free!
Oleh Service Center,
22 hours per day (Except Shabbat)
1-800-228-055
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State of Israel Ministry of Immigrant Absorption Employment Division
Employment Referral Center for Olim
The Employment Referral Center for Olim, in conjunction with the Employment division of the Ministry of Immigrant absorption has been established in order to help Olim find suitable employment.
In order to receive assistance from a Center, it is necessary to meet the following criteria:
* New immigrant in Israel for up to 10 years
*Admissible level of Hebrew (after ulpan aleph) *Professionals who mustn't have a license in order to practice in Israel (such as medical
professionals, lawyers and accountants) *Applicants who have not received any assistance in the past from a similar service
The center provides various employment services, including: *Assistance in job–placement by professional staff
*Job-hunting workshops and professional assessment by career counselor
* Basic computer courses in Hebrew
* Hebrew improvement, especially related to employment
*Help in writing CV and preparing for job interview
You are welcome to use our technical facilities: telephone, fax, internet.
There is no charge for these services
To make an appointment or to get more information please call:
Tel Aviv 03 561 4546
Jerusalem 02 537 1186
HaSharon 09 748 2324
For application to our Center, please prepare your Israeli identity document, teudat oleh, c.v. and identity photography
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AACI'S $70,000 Small Business Loan Program AACI is pleased to be in partnership with the Koret Foundation’s Israel Economic Development Fund (KIEDF) and to have established a small business loan program for AACI members. Loans can be for up to 5 years and for up to NIS300,000. They can be used for either starting a new business or expanding an existing one.
The process begins with an applicant turning to an AACI counselor to review basic eligibility, and make the referral to KIEDF. KIEDF will provide business consulting services including review, advice, guidance, and the preparation of a business plan for the applicant. If it is decided to go forward with the loan, the applicant will be introduced to a bank used by KIEDF.
Assuming the bank approves the loan, AACI and KIEDF funds are used to provide bank guarantees and an interest rate subsidy for the loan. For further details, contact your AACI counselor.
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Business Mentoring Project
 AACI is pleased to invite established professionals and business people to participate in a project of the Council of Olim Associations to mentor potential olim in their fields of business.Volunteer mentors will become networking resources for potential olim. Correspondence with olim about their field will enable them to make informed decisions about their future business opportunities and have a smoother Klitah process. Participants will attend special events and lectures with mentors from around the world.
A few hours of your time can make a big impact on someone’s decision to make aliyah and give him or her an invaluable insight into the Israeli marketplace.
The Council of Olim Associations is the coordinating body of 24 member organizations whose objectives include building synergy and maximizing the capability of all the associations.
Interested? Send an email to jarbel@aaci.org.il with the subject ‘Business Mentoring Project' and the project coordinator will be in touch with you.
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Nov. 11, 2009
Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST Start making room in your closets, as gas masks are on their way back to your home. In January, the IDF Home Front Command will begin returning gas masks to the public after a two-year operation that included their collection and refurbishment.
Under the plan - drawn up by Col. Yossi Sagiv, head of the Home Front Command's Gas Mask and Protection Kits Department - the masks will be returned to people's homes by the Israel Postal Company, which beat out seven other companies in a Defense Ministry tender last week.
The distribution, Sagiv said on Tuesday, would likely take three years and will begin throughout the country in late January and according to operational considerations of which area is under a more immediate threat.
The Home Front Command began collecting the public's gas masks in 2007. It has collected 77 percent of the masks and will complete the collection when it begins the distribution. Members of the public will receive the same rubber gas mask that they had in the past, with an improved filter - more effective against various chemical and biological threats that Israel faces - but without the syringe of Atropine that was in the past kits.
Sagiv said that the entire project of collecting, refurbishing and
distributing the gas masks is costing the state several hundred million shekels. Under the plan, Postal Company representatives will contact homeowners and schedule a time to visit and deliver the gas masks required by the family. Each family will be asked to pay a nominal sum of under NIS 30. The courier will also help fit the gas masks to the family members and explain how to use them.
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By Cnaan Liphshiz , Haaretz Correspondent
11/11/2009
The organization representing North Americans in Israel has called on its members to fight a U.S. health care bill that would require U.S. citizens living abroad to pay $750 annually for insurance they may not be able to use.
The Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel (AACI) informed its members Tuesday that the controversial bill, which the Senate proposed as part of President Barack Obama's massive health care overhaul, contains a $750 per annum excise tax for all U.S. citizens living outside the U.S. However, "the proposed U.S. insurance plans will not cover medical expenses outside the U.S.," the Association said.
The exact details of the proposal and how it would be legislated are not entirely clear at this point, said David London, the Association's executive director.
London added that his organization's opposition to this element of the bill "should not be seen" as opposition to the reform plan in general. "This doesn't mean that AACI, which is a non-partisan organization, is speaking against the new health policy," he said. "We're not taking a stand on it. We're concerned that this bill could be unjust to U.S. citizens living in Israel." According to London, the House of Representatives has passed a similar bill, but it exempted citizens residing abroad from the excise tax. "This is why we're only appealing to senators to make the same amendment," London added. "Unless we are exempted by both the House bill and the Senate bill, we could be taxed when the two bills are merged," the Association said in an online bulletin to its members. AACI also enclosed a sample letter of complaint, and the names and fax numbers of every U.S. Senator. |
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