Postdocs

Information for Postdocs. See similar page for all academic visitors.

Student Visa

- Obtaining a student visa (make sure that your passport expiration date is far away):

Get yourself a local SIM card (you will need it for all the later steps). There is a store at the center across the street, called Blue Phone; they sell prepaid SIM cards by 019 mobile. The SIM card costs 40NIS (one time), and a standard plan (including unlimited calls + 20GB data/month) costs 49NIS/month. The phone number at the store is 03-5259192.
Get yourself a bank account and a debit card. Inside campus, you'll find a branch of Mizrahi Tefahot (bank code # is 20, and the branch code # is 414). Make sure to bring in your postdoc invitation letter, your passport, and the number of your local phone.
Fill the two forms: Postdoctoral fellowship application form and Registration form for postdocs. Submit them (along with your passport-sized photo, a photocopy of your passport and a photocopy of the approval of your Ph.D. degree) to the department's secretary.
Get yourself an health insurance. One option is fill the form of Harel Yedidim and mail it to Einat@yedidim.co.il.
Ask your postdoc advisor to fill and submit the scholarship payment form

The dormitories do not supply linens, sheets etc. please make sure to bring whatever you need.

You will need to take a permanent payment form from the dorms headquarters and bring it to your bank. This will set up an automatic monthly payment of your rent and water/electricity usage.

Note that the dorms have a laundry room, and that you can pay in it with cash (the instructions there seem to insist that you download some app to pay with your phone, but in fact you only need to have 11-13 NIS exact change (maybe times two, for the washer and the dryer)).