How to Navigate SEGEL /TRFO Website

From the website

The organization of the teaching and research faculty at Tel Aviv University was established with the aim of representing young researchers, practitioners, as well as lecturers without tenure. This is in order to ensure fair teaching and research conditions (as well as benefit from collective insurance and consumer power).

The organization includes male and female fellows, as well as teaching staff at the university who do not have a senior position: teaching assistant (master's and bachelor's degree students), assistant and instructor (doctoral students), teaching associate, teacher from abroad, as well as faculty in the track the equivalent The organization represents these populations and has signed collective agreements regarding them.

As you know, everyone is entitled to have rights and representation in the job environment. Unfortunately, in a foreign country, it is a big challenge to get to know your right, although you are granted them! Don't be shy and look forward, you are in the right place to defend your rights and dignity!

Here we present a brief guide on the SEGEL (in English Teaching and Research Faculty Organization -TRFO) website, still in the majority of its extent in Hebrew. The pages are being updated slowly, but we figured out that the information in the website is easily translated in English, if you ask your browser to do so.

Therefore, once you enter SEGEL website, you can definitely see the translate information. Just click on this link and then on the half of the circle that is translated with "Malagasy". Further, on the right, there is the news column on the activity of the Union (Updates).

If you want to get directly to the English section for the scholarship recipients, click on this link.

If you need some more information from the secretariat of the Union, you can check the CONTACT webpage, where you are provided with different channels. Additionally, you can write directly to gizbar@segel.org.il or segel@segel.org.il. Up to date, these two addresses are the most active ones.

If you also need some more advice or a face-to-face talk, remember there is a list of people who were elected as Representatives of SEGEL:

• Shachar Frank, SEGEL chairperson

Representatives for 2023/2024

• Valentina Alberti (Life Sciences)
• Elinor Nadir (Life Sciences)
• Amir Sarig (Life Sciences)

• Noa Gedi (Humanities)
• Tuvaal Klein (Humanities)
• Ronen Sadka (Humanities)

• Dani Ozana (Social Sciences)
• Uri Wollman (Social Sciences)

• Hadas Pe'eri (Arts)

• Ben Flickstein (Neuroscience)

• Tsachit Lapid (Languages)
• Marina Niznik (Languages)

• Shai Lerer (Exact Sciences)
• Moran Nabriski (Exact Sciences)
• Nir Naftali (Exact Sciences)

The  members of the Audit Committee are:

• Adi Bar (Life Sciences) 
• Itay Cohen (Exact Sciences). 

Contacts and subscription to the mailing list

For any inquiry, send an email to segel@segel.org.il

In order to subscribe to the newsletter, please also provide Name, email, ID, faculty, phone number and specify the request.

Various services that SEGEL provides:

Scholarship Rights and Benefits (from the official booklet 2022-2023) 

• Scholarships are not considered as employment income, and therefore, the social rights granted to employed individuals by law do not apply to scholarship recipients. Due to this, male and female scholarship recipients have a distinct "Rights and Benefits Package."

• The "Segel" Teaching and Research Staff Organization at Tel Aviv University, which represents scholarship recipients, is available to provide advice and representation at all times regarding the implementation of your rights.

• If your research or income has been affected due to the COVID-19 crisis, please contact us.

• The monthly amount of a maintenance scholarship can vary from approximately 600 to 11,000 NIS.

• The scholarship amount is determined based on the academic stage of the scholarship recipient's studies and the funding source, subject to various regulatory limitations as detailed below.

• Scholarship recipients are exempt from paying tuition fees in every semester in which they receive a scholarship.

• The exemption does not cover incidental payments (security and welfare), but those employed by the university are exempt from security fees according to the employment terms and position scope.

• Scholarship recipients are covered by "Harel" health insurance (basic policy) and life insurance, as well as by "Risk" and A.K.H. insurance from "Migdal," at no cost. To opt out of these insurances, please contact the organization. [this is not for foreigners]

• Scholarship recipients are not entitled to pension deposits by the employer (as a scholarship is not considered employment income). However, scholarship recipients interested in pension savings can benefit from the same terms applicable to employees under the organization's group policies.[this is not for foreigners]

• Doctoral scholarship recipients are eligible for a $1,000 grant to fund their participation in academic events, whether in Israel or abroad (half funded by the department and half by the university).

• Employed doctoral students (research and teaching assistants) are entitled to funding for academic activity both in Israel and abroad through the "Keren Kesheri Mada" foundation.

• Third-degree students are provided with a "Doctoral Fellowship" to purchase books and organize scientific conferences by doctoral students.

• Upon completion of the doctoral thesis, scholarship recipients and/or employed individuals are entitled to a discount on thesis printing.

• Scholarship recipients are entitled to continue receiving the scholarship during maternity leave and reserve duty. Due to these events, there is a provision for extending the scholarship at the end of the absence period (matching the duration of absence).

• Scholarships are not considered employment income, thus scholarship recipients are not required to pay income tax and are not eligible for unemployment benefits. However, it is possible to receive unemployment benefits while receiving a scholarship.

• Scholarship recipients are entitled to benefits available to all organization members, including representation and support against university entities, legal counseling in relevant fields, annual holiday gift cards, and discounted meal tickets for cafeterias across campus.

• As part of the organization's commitment to promoting gender equality on campus and beyond, we actively work to create a safe campus environment free from sexual harassment, including providing information about sexual harassment and ways to address it.