Assistance in employment
Integration into employment in Israel is the best foundation for a successful absorption. Therefore, the Government of Israel offers returning residents extensive and varied assistance for promoting integration into employment and acquiring job skills suited to the Israeli job market.
Assistance is provided by the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption subject to the Ministry's budget restrictions and regulations.
The package of benefits consists of the following:
Employment counseling and job placement before returning to Israel
To enable you to integrate into employment quickly and efficiently on your arrival in Israel, we offer a special service for finding job openings and vocational areas suited to your qualifications. You will thus be able to integrate into employment quickly and efficiently, without wasting time looking for a job on your arrival in Israel. The employment guidance service is provided by a special Employment Center set up to serve returning Israelis, with the goal of encouraging Israelis residing abroad to inquire into employment possibilities in Israel, before completing their preparations for returning.
The Center contains a secure and integrated database of all Israel's major employers, along with a database of resumés (CVs) of those joining the special program, and its goal is to bring about job placement meetings leading, as noted, to rapid integration into the workforce.
The service is provided by vocational professionals.
To receive this service, you must complete an Employment Assistance Registration form, in which you can indicate your fields of study, knowledge of languages, professional experience and occupational preferences.
The vocational questionnaires and resumés will be sorted by professionals, who will examine the applicants' details and send them, in response to their applications, preliminary information about employment in Israel in their occupational field and the demands of Israeli employers. In this way the returning resident can become familiar with Israeli employers' demands and gain an understanding of the intercultural gaps between employers in Israel and other countries.
Following the returning resident's arrival in Israel, the employment counselors at Ministry of Immigrant Absorption branch and district offices will continue to offer services on the basis of the data accumulated during the handling process.
Subsistence/assured income allowance for job seekers
To ensure the wellbeing of the family following return to Israel, the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption grants returning-resident job-seekers an assured income during the first year following their return, for a total of three months. To receive the assured income benefit, a returning resident must report to one of the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption branch or district offices within three months from the date of return to Israel.
The amount of assured income will be determined according to Ministry regulations, and based on the number of family members. The period for receiving the benefit is three months during the first year of residence in Israel, on condition that the returning resident reports in person to an office of the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption.
In addition, returning residents are entitled to a subsistence allowance during vocational training, provided that the training is more than 24 weekly hours during the first year in Israel, and on condition that the returning resident reports in person to a Ministry of Immigrant Absorption office. Participants in vocational training courses can also receive participation in their travel expenses at a rate of 60% of the expenditure. These payments are not automatic, and must be approved in advance, in writing, by a personal absorption coordinator.
Guidance Centers
Vocational diagnostic services, counseling in job seeking, resumé writing and the acquisition of skills for independent placement, workshops for job seekers – all these are provided to returning residents at Guidance Centers throughout the country. While using the services of the Guidance Centers, returning residents are entitled to subsistence allowances and reimbursement of travel expenses according to the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption’s regulations. The grants will be given for an additional period of up to three months, as indicated above (see table below).