Retirement in israel

Your Investments: Avoid repeating financial blunders

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes but recovered from them. – Bono

U2 SINGER Bono poses during a photocall for ‘Bono: Stories of Surrender’ at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in France, last year.
David Alexander, Deputy CEO of Phoenix Financial

Israel’s hidden strength: Institutional capital pools

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Ad 120 launches new benefits campaign for Tel Aviv senior-living units

 Many Jews from abroad view property purchases in Israel as a form of pension plan.

Your Taxes: How does Israel tax foreign pensions? The laws all immigrants should know


Financial tips for new immigrants — What should you know before aliyah?

Tips from an adviser based on 30 years in Israel.

 Noam Friedman making aliyah with his family.

The new Florida? Record number of US retirees relocate to Israel in 2021

Of the 4,478 new immigrants who arrived in Israel from North America last year, 762 — just over 17% of the total — were 55 or older, a 23% rise from the 580 who came in 2020.

Joel Tenenbaum, 81, and Marilyn Berkowitz, 84, enjoy the beach just north of Tel Aviv.

An opportunity for a retired artist in Haifa

For Lauren Kedem retirement meant moving out of her residential teaching job at Hadassah/Meir Shfeyah Youth Aliyah village and settling in the diverse and heavily populated Wadi Nisnas neighborhood.

 Lauren Kedem

Catering to the residential needs of the religiously observant

When completed, the facility will offer a senior living residence adapted to the religiously oriented way of life. 

 Protea senior living facility in Elkana.

Retirees realize their dreams in TA singing competition

The Star of the City competition gives retirees a chance to pursue their dreams of singing.

 STAR OF the City competition winner Boris Kuzmenko.

Protea opening retirement residence for observant

The new project has an investment of NIS 420 million and will include 250 housing units, a support wing and an inpatient department.

AN ARTIST’S rendering of the upcoming Protea facility in Elkana.

How to grow old in Israel

Here's what to do when you finally have the luxury and time to engage in a medley of activities.

 Illustrative photograph: Rochelle Gilbert and Helen Simpson learn to use an iPad.

Israel's first senior co-housing initiative

Eight years ago, as four American-Israeli couples watched their own parents age without a plan, they started looking for an affordable cooperative housing model for themselves and friends.

 THE HALAMOT Arnona co-housing project.

21 residents of retirement home get coronavirus after receiving vaccine

Health officials have stressed that the two-dose Pfizer vaccine regimen means that the vaccine is only fully effective about five weeks after the first dose.

Elderly residents receive coronavirus vaccine at Mediterranean Towers assisted living, Dec. 22, 2020

Katz considers increasing retirement age for women from 62 to 64

Previously, Feminist groups prevented any change in upping the existing retirement age for women.

Judge Nili Arad, nominated as the National Labor Court president, following Judge Steve Adler's retirement after 35 years in the judicial system. November 15 2010