Retirement in israel

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

US Social Security is exempt in both the US and Israel under the US-Israel tax treaty.

 Many Jews from abroad view property purchases in Israel as a form of pension plan.
 Thousands of additional shekels can be saved every year with tax exemption

Your Investments: Abraham’s retirement advice? Do what’s right for you - opinion

Live your dream at Protea by the Sea

 US President Joe Biden shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, November 13, 2024.

Work isn’t a curse word: Time to light your fire - opinion


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

Do you really need to save $8m. for a modest retirement? – opinion

“I exaggerate ourselves, our beings. I make fun of everything; of our life and what we are. But I don’t tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.” – Don Rickles

Calculating taxes

Retired? Avoid these money miscues

If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing cocoa butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You’ll want something new. - Tim Ferriss

‘IT CAN be off-putting and cumbersome to be asked for money in various social settings, even if it is for an objectively good cause.’

‘Aren’t you dead yet?’ - Reflections on being a feather duster

My congregant’s question starkly reminds me that I’m no longer so young. The Bible spells it out in Psalm 37:25, “I was young, now I am old.”

Shalom Shtamberg, a 93-year old Holocaust survivor, is lifted on a chair during celebrations marking his bar mitzvah ceremony, a Jewish coming-of-age celebration traditionally marked by boys at the age of 13, in Haifa, Israel August 31, 2017.