 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel Daniel Rosso here. I thought I'd do a video today on the Israeli website called ZAP. It's a price comparison website and this is part of my YouTube playlist called Living in Israel. Intended for people like my wife's relative who have just moved to Israel and I'm just, you know, kind of gradually bleeding out all the knowledge I've picked up over seven years of living here. Which becomes second nature but for newcomers it's a whole new world so that's why I put up these videos on YouTube. So ZAP is a price comparison website. The URL is zap.co.il but you'll hear it referred to just commonly as ZAP. And what it does is basically if you're looking to buy something in Israel from the internet, in other words e-commerce, you can either go to a trusted source like KSP, Ivory, Azraeli or you can shop around using a price comparison engine just like you might use Skyscanner to look at airplane flares, except it will be limited to Hebrew. So watch it, the way to use ZAP is sometimes you're searching for a product and you'll get a ZAP link, otherwise you can go to ZAP and put in a product category. Now I chose Ciel, I'm not getting my Hebrew quite perfect today. Ciel Orez is a rice cooker and if you search for it you will guess products. Here is a product listing for rice cookers. Now what I want to show you guys like any Israeli website, this looks like it was built in the 1990s and is chock full of pop-ups and other unwanted advertising. There's a couple of listing types, one is to buy it. So I presume ZAP is making some kind of an affiliate deal with the e-commerce stores. So sometimes this says in Hebrew, lik ni'a, which means to purchase. So if I click on this it's going to take me straight to this vendor and this product page, Bali by, I have no idea what this actually is for 195 shackles. But the main use of ZAP would be to get price comparison and that's the blue button, it's called ha-shva'at mi-khairim, so comparison of prices. So if I click on let's take this Hyundai blah blah blah rice cooker, it ranges in price from 142 to 214 shackles. Now the value of ZAP is in terms of unearthing the long tail of Israeli e-commerce outlets, right? In other words, everyone's heard of KSP and Ivory but there's a bunch of kind of mom and pop shops around the place that you'll kind of dredge up using ZAP, right? So now that I've clicked on this product, this Hyundai rice cooker, I have a bunch of different options that have, you know, and it's sorted from most expensive to cheapest. So if you look at Ivory, they're selling this for 188 shackles. Shufrasal for 179 and I can find it for as cheap as 142 shackles. They also have, besides the price, the mishloach, which means delivery price, so this is free delivery and Zman Aspaka is delivery time, so this is five-day delivery, right? So all this information is populated in the system. Another really useful thing would be, so let's say you've never heard of these places like this particular shop here, right? They're like, oh, I don't know, do I really trust them? So they do have a rating system, both on a per store basis and on a per product basis. So if you look at this, dobi.co.il and you can read people's reviews. Again, this is a Hebrew website, there's no English translation here, but you can sort through places. And you can also find, they've also got reviews for the actual product itself, so by clicking on this button here, I'll get reviews on this actual brand of Hyundai rice cooker as opposed to on the store. I think it's usually more useful, I usually get my reviews from non-Israeli sources, but I generally will if I haven't heard of a shop, I will check out the profile and see what people are saying about it. So just to be clear, Zap isn't a store, Zap doesn't sell stuff. Zap is a, to the best of what I can see, a kind of scraping tool that aggregates the Israeli e-commerce system and makes it easy for consumers to find new places to buy from. And there's a bunch of little details I'm leaving out here, but that's the gist of it basically. In addition to being able to type, you can also use a system like this and sort through a list of stuff you might need, like for example, headphones or televisions and you'll get a much, much bigger selection. But if you click into any product you're looking to buy in Israel, the Apple Airpods too. Again, you're going to get this price comparison showing you how much it is in shoe for sale. Look, it's a bit cheaper in these phone stores and maybe if it's free delivery and maybe if it's quick enough, you'll be able to save a little bit of money on your next purchase. This quick overview is useful if you've never heard of Zap or you have heard of Zap, but you're not sure what it is. Definitely a useful tool in the arsenal of anyone living in Israel. And the URL one last time is zapzap.co.il. Thank you for watching. Have a good day.