 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel Daniel Rosal here bringing you another video from Jerusalem on this interesting Conflux in the calendar of events today is the 31st of October, which means of course it is Halloween and Tomorrow in Israel. It is yom habichirot the Election day we're having our fifth set of elections in four years So we're getting different kinds of spooks doing the rounds tomorrow than than there will be tonight I wanted to talk a little bit about show a very quick resource I discovered on the internet today, which folks living in Israel buying stuff on the internet, which Isn't that the same thing everyone here buys online? Might find useful. It's called a much shavon mass you know now I think I just got the nekudot wrong the vowelization wrong and I also want to show you guys are Remind viewers those living in Israel, especially those also learning Hebrew of the presence of a terrific resource Google Translate Now you say to me Daniel Google Translate has been around for donkeys years. What are you doing? Tell us about Google Translate true But they only added text-to-speech support in Hebrew quite recently So if you ever don't know how to pronounce something in modern Hebrew the lack of nekudot of written Vowelization is the nemesis of many modern Hebrew learners you can add the Hebrew here and then click on the listen button So I'm gonna just mute my microphone now. So you can hear how to pronounce this properly from a computer at least So it's funny after I've discovered this tool I'm realizing how many Israelis over the last seven years have been so kind to me I realize now how many things I've been pronouncing horribly, but people here do give you a bit of a Bit of time, which is nice. Anyway, I don't want to get too far derailed from the topic of this video So in Israel if you're buying stuff on the internet, I've done another video about the very very rudimentary Things about the import system here before the most basic rule is that up to seventy five dollars on the value of the item Below seventy five dollars. You won't have to pay typically anything including VAT at seventeen percent and above Above a seventy five dollars. You will have to pay value-added tax at the rate of Seventeen percent now as I've mentioned before and again, this is only applicable at the date. I'm uploading this video That amount is for the value of the product so if for instance, let me pick a random item on my desk this remote control Let's suppose this remote control was I bought it for seventy six dollars on Amazon and Shipping was fourteen dollars. I would be paying tax on seventy six dollars now Let's say this remote control here was seventy four dollars and I paid Fourteen dollars shipping on Amazon so long as Amazon correctly filled out the customs accluration Such that it showed that the seventy four dollars is the value of the item and the shipping was what took me over that amount I'll be good. I won't have to pay any seventeen percent VAT on this hypothetical remote control Now there are a couple of weird niggly little exceptions to the rule therefore It's very helpful that the good folks over in the customs department have put together this Marchivon mass you've now I do always recommend as I've mentioned in a few videos if you are living in Israel That wherever possible you source information in Hebrew and not in English now As I've mentioned a few times my Hebrew is not perfect and I make a lot of mistakes and my pronunciation is quite comical But there are such great tools in terms of Google translate that even if you're Hebrew isn't at that level you want it to be You can still it's you're still gonna get better. Typically. You're gonna get better more accurate More up-to-date information more everything Searching in Hebrew than you are searching in English. So if you go into this Marchivon mass you've I'm just gonna go back in my browser here and put myself down so you can actually see what I'm looking at This is on the customs dot mof dot gov dot a l if you're worried about this being some kind of a fishing scam It is not just make sure you're on an official government domain You're usually good and they have it organized by categories. You can go into for instance by a lake haim, which are animals Or you can go into bruit verifua health and Healing the bite legano the miss red For the house for the garden and for the office. So let's just go into this category and Let's click on see who'd miss ready. Now. This is basically a public lookup tool That they have put up on the internet there so that you can look up for a given Product category a what the VAT charge is if there's any exception to the typical rule in this case They're not and in this case here. You can also see That there are customs restrictions miss money. I wasn't sure how to translate the miss money into English actually miss money Laser markers, right? There's a red flag here coming up and it says Lemos are they're coming at who killed you who so for this product Category classification. There are additional restrictions on personal import So anyway, we're not going to get bogged down into the weeds of laser import laws But you can use this particular calculation device to gloss through based on what you're thinking about Importing and you can see firstly if there's any exception to the typical rule Let's just go back there one sec that up to and you can see here matchil. Sorry metachat 75 dollar Blow 75 dollars That's me here motzar Achoo's mom the VAT percentage is patur. It's there is no 17% VAT Meal 75 dollar above 75 dollars VAT is going to be 17% and by the way that is calculated on again shipping is calculated separately So if it's a hundred dollar item, you're gonna pay 17 dollars and it's gonna be a hundred seventeen dollars plus shipping That's the way it works That's about all I can that's about all I wanted to show for today's video as I mentioned the previous time I did a little video on import laws in Israel import Amenities or tools such as this I did stress. I'm not a you know Professional importer, but I am someone who does buy quite a bit of stuff off the net And I'm used to dealing with these various tools and again given that he Israel is a Hebrew speaking country by law It's not required that everything be translated into English and when they do it's really nice Thank you guys for watching if you want to get more videos about living in Israel do in particular Check out the living in Israel playlist on this YouTube channel. Thank you very much for watching