Guides
Guides to Israeli documents going abroad
Plain answers to the questions Israelis and their advisers actually ask: which document a foreign institution is really requesting, what certification it needs, how it should look in English and what it costs. Every guide is written from the published rules, and every one of them is also available in Hebrew.
Start here: how certification works
What the words mean, before you pay for anything.
Certified, notarized or apostilled?
Three words used as if they were one. What each actually is in Israel, and which one the institution in front of you is really asking for.
Read the guideWhy a translated payslip comes back
What gets an Israeli payslip queried or rejected abroad, and what a translation has to preserve for a reviewer to accept it first time.
Read the guideForm 106, explained for a foreign bank
What the annual employer certificate is, why it answers an income question better than a stack of payslips, and how its numbered boxes should read in English.
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Banks, mortgages and compliance
What a foreign institution reads, and which Israeli document answers it.
Financial documents for a bank abroad
The documents foreign institutions usually ask an Israeli for, when English alone is already enough, and what each one costs to translate.
Read the guideA mortgage abroad on Israeli income
How a lender's reviewer reads three to twelve months of Israeli bank statements, line by line — and why a summary translation gets sent back.
Read the guideProving source of funds
A compliance officer has asked where your money came from. Which Hebrew document answers each request on the list, and how to build the file so it holds together.
Read the guideOpening a bank account in Portugal
The paperwork a Portuguese bank asks an Israeli for, the order to collect it in, and the steps that trip people up.
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By destination
Country-specific rules, read from the authorities' own pages.
Buying property in Portugal
The Israeli documents a Portuguese purchase or mortgage file is built from, and how they are submitted in English.
Read the guideBuying property in Cyprus
Four different parties will send you four different lists. What each of them wants, what the Israeli file actually needs, and where Greek does and doesn't come into it.
Read the guideAustralian visas from Israel
Do you need a NAATI translator, or a notary? What the Department of Home Affairs actually asks of a translator working outside Australia — in its own words.
Read the guideUSCIS filings with Israeli documents
One regulation, one sentence long, governs the whole translation requirement — and it asks for neither a notary nor an apostille nor a summary.
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