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Introduction of the Blog and WA group guidelines

  Welcome to the first TAU International Volunteering and Support blog! This blog has been created to give complementary information to the graduated students of TAU and to create a community where we can share thoughts and information. This blog is NOT affiliated or supported by Lowy TAU international school or any of the TAU administrative bodies. This blog is meant to be an informal tool where people can be updated, alongside the Researchers and Scholars in TAU: the peers community , and the PhDs and  group and the informal word-of-mouth. Each PhD student or post-doc is more than welcome to approach and participate in the creation of this blog, acting as a volunteer (with a little basic commitment) but also as an user, where they can collect any sort of information. All of the content posted on this blog is under the responsibility of the person who wrote it and posted it. UPDATE 06.11.23  Guidelines for the WhatsApp group  1.Respect & Kindness: Treat all memb...
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Electric bikes and scooters own by a foreign citizen (meaning each one of us)

From August 2024 in Israel it is mandatory to have a license plate on any electric vehicle, except for Segway and hoverboards. The law was approved after the counting of accidents happened daily all over the country, the evidence that these vehicles are really dangerous. The typical procedure is -either for Israeli citizens or foreigners - to register yourself in the Ministry of Transportation system. In other words, you need a subscription to the registry of electric vehicle owners. The procedure requires to the owner: - To be above 16 (age). - to possess a driving license (Israeli and foreign accepted) or to pass the A3 driving license test, designed exactly for the riding of simple vehicles. - to already possess the vehicles to be registered.   - to have an helmet (it's mandatory, also for the rented vehicles such as Lime, Bird and Forth) If you are aligned on the requirement above, you need to submit a formal application through the Ministry of Transportation website (part of t...
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A few tips on Rav Kav - the card for travelling in Israel

 As Wikipedia defines it, Rav-Kav (Hebrew: רב-קו, lit. "multi-line") is a reusable contactless stored value smart card for making electronic payments as a joint fare collection system for the different public transportation operators across Israel. Whether you are a tourist or a resident in Israel, the Rav Kav is a MUST. It is a very flexible way to get around the city and travel around the country (ahi ahi, except for the Shabbat time).  Actually, recently they implemented the Rav Kav access on the Monit Sherut (the shared taxi that travels across the cities also on Shabbat), but we highly recommend to check with the drivers! On the official Rav Kav webpage, they claim that the lines associated with the RavKav are the 4 and the 5 but they won't accept Rav Kav payments on Shabbat, probably because the price is different or the company does not work. In order to get a Rav Kav, you can either get it from an office, for example the one in the Airport, from a vending machin...
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