Students & lone soldiers
Students, gap year and lone soldiers
The Lone Soldier Center in memory of Michael Levin runs community centers in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Be'er Sheva, and Nefesh B'Nefesh runs its Lone Soldiers Program from its Tel Aviv Center. Tel Aviv University offers 4 undergraduate and over 20 graduate degrees in English through its Lowy International School. Soldiers get free entry to the city's main museums.
Students & lone soldiers
Start here
6 steps, in the order most people take them.
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Contact the Lone Soldier Center
Help with enlistment, lone soldier recognition, housing, financial and emotional support, and life after discharge. Phone 03-560-1931.
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Use the Nefesh B'Nefesh Lone Soldiers Program
Run from the Tel Aviv Center in the Azrieli Round Tower, which also hosts a Resilience Center for lone soldier olim and their families.
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Look at TAU's English and integration tracks
Academic integration tracks let new olim start in English or French and finish in Hebrew; some English tracks don't need a psychometric score.
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Ask about student funding
Olim within three years of arrival may get tuition help from the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration through the Israel Student Authority.
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Know the bike and scooter rules
Riders must be 16 or older, helmets are mandatory, and e-bikes are limited to 25 km/h.
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Find Shabbat meals
White City Shabbat, Moishe House and the English-speaking shuls host meals for young people.
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Guides
Read next
- Your first week in Tel AvivThe order I would do things in during a first week in Tel Aviv-Yafo: national paperwork, the city's olim department, the arnona discount, 106 and DigiTel.
- Getting around Tel AvivThe Red Line, buses and Rav-Kav, trains, free weekend buses, bike share and scooter rules, and how resident parking works in Tel Aviv-Yafo.
- Shabbat in Tel AvivCandle lighting, the eruv, shuls that welcome English speakers, Shabbat meals for newcomers, and what is open in Tel Aviv on Friday night and Saturday.
- Renting and buying in Tel AvivSourced Tel Aviv rent figures, where listings are posted, the Fair Rental Law basics, the city's model lease, and the olim purchase tax track.
Good to know
Soldiers and reservists get into the Tel Aviv Museum of Art free. ANU lets soldiers in uniform in free with ID. The free weekend buses run Friday 5pm to 2am and Saturday 9:30am to 6pm. Florentin is where some young Anglos rent their first apartment, according to Easy Aliyah.
Community groups
Where people talk
- Chabad on the CoastWebsite or forum · Chabad on the Coast
- Moishe House Tel AvivFacebook · Moishe House
- Secret Tel AvivFacebook · Secret Tel Aviv
- Tel Aviv Minyan ShivyoniFacebook · Tel Aviv Minyan Shivyoni
- Tel Aviv TorahFacebook · Tel Aviv Torah
- White City ShabbatWebsite or forum · White City Shabbat
Source
- Lone Soldier Center (opens in a new tab)
- Nefesh B'Nefesh Tel Aviv Center (opens in a new tab)
- Tel Aviv University: olim support (opens in a new tab)
- Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality: bicycles and scooters (opens in a new tab)
- Nefesh B'Nefesh: Tel Aviv religious life (opens in a new tab)
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art (opens in a new tab)
- ANU (opens in a new tab)
- Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality: public transportation (opens in a new tab)
- Easy Aliyah: Tel Aviv Anglo communities (opens in a new tab)
This page was written for Tel Aviv from the sources above.