In industrial plants and workshops:
Professional jobs in metalworking that entitle you to the grant: metalworking and welding, engraving and milling, electricity, mechanics, instrument engineering, grinding.
Professional work in apparel that entitles you to the grant: Tailoring and sewing, pattern cutting, leather stitching.
All unskilled work in industrial plants and workshops entitles you to the grant, Such as unskilled labor in the construction, food and textile industries and in other industries, except for clerical work.
Examples:
Vehicle garages, stock keeper working in a warehouse adjacent to a garage, tire repair workshops, manufacture of computer components (electronics) in high-tech enterprises recognized as industrial plants, production of software packages on magnetic media, production of scenery and signs, work in printing shops, book binding, refineries, workshops, laying water pipelines and infrastructure in the Mekorot company, and work in the Israel Electric Corporation facilities connected with the production and distribution of electricity.
In gas stations:
Any unskilled labor at a gas station entitles you to the grant.
Examples:
Any work in a gas station, including washing cars (on condition that the operator of the car wash is the owner of the gas station), repairing flat tires, engine lubrication and driving gasoline tankers.
At construction sites:
Any job at a construction site entitles you to the grant, except for clerical work.
Examples:
Jobs in the building trades at a construction site, gardening, connecting new buildings to infrastructures, communications networks and electricity, earthwork, paving, and painting roads, erecting light poles, surveying work, quality assurance on behalf of the Standards Institution, polish and pest extermination, renovating existing houses (any work connected with changing the original structure).
In hotels:
Waiting tables, cooking, chambermaid duties and unskilled labor, including washing dishes and cleaning, except for clerical work.
Examples:
Waiting tables, chambermaid duties, cooking, unskilled labor, such as entertainment, bellboy, pool personnel, security guard.
At agricultural crop growing sites and packing houses:
Unskilled labor at agricultural crop growing sites and packing houses entitles you to the bonus, including cleaning, but excluding clerical work.
Examples:
Unskilled labor in the various branches of agriculture, work in nurseries that grow plants and do not deal solely with sales, work in Jewish National Fund forests, greenhouses, packing houses, farms that raise animals, pest extermination, security and guard work.
Caring for disabled people
Providing care and personal assistance to disabled people - means assistance in carrying out everyday functions, such as dressing, bathing, eating, personal hygiene, moving around in the house, etc. or supervision of the disabled person to prevent harm or danger to himself or to others. Household work with a disabled person is not considered vital work.
Caring and personal assistance for a disabled person at home - if the following two conditions are fulfilled:
1. The care is provided in the home of a person with a disability, who has a license to employ a foreign worker.
2. The disabled person is one of the following:
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A person who is entitled to an attendance allowance from the National Insurance Institute.
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A disabled child who is entitled to a benefit from the National Insurance Institute.
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A person who is entitled to a long-term care benefit from the National Insurance Institute.
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A disabled person who is entitled to a benefit under the Disability Law of the Ministry of Defense.
A person who works as a caregiver and personal assistant to someone living in any of the following institutions:
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A hospital solely for nursing patients, complex nursing patients, emotionally debilitated or rehabilitation patients.
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A day care center or the part of a day care center designated for people with physical or mental disabilities.
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A rehabilitative day care center.
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An institution for social care, an institution for medical treatment or an institution for combined treatment for drug abusers.
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A day care center operated by the Ministry of Defense for people with emotional disabilities.
The work is recognized as vital work for anyone who began working as of September 1, 2008. For anyone who began working before September 1st, the months of work will be counted only from September 1st.
A person who worked at any of the above institutions must attach an auuthorization of work at personal care and assistance (form 1502) to his claim for the grant.
Please note:
The work of a “family member” (sibling, child, grandchild, aunt, uncle, and the spouses of any of these) in caring for disabled people is not recognized as vital work, nor is work of social counselors in recognized institutions, since their work is not in assistance with everyday functions or in supervision.