 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel, this is Daniel Rosel and on this YouTube channel I share tips and tricks for living in Israel. Today I want to offer a quick run-through about how to buy things online in Israel. I'm pretty sure that Israelis are among the most active supporters of e-commerce on the planet. Despite this only being a country of about 10 million people, Israel was once named one of the biggest markets in the world for Ali Express and the parliament's postal system was even briefly frozen by the sheer volume of Ali Express packages that people were ordering. Many people in Israel are familiar with websites like Amazon, eBay, iHerb and of course AliExpress. These have become so popular in Israel that for many they become the first places we turn when we need things like electronics, supplements, spare computer parts and literally whatever else you can think of. But sometimes you need things in a pinch and when that's the case it sometimes makes more sense to buy things from online Israeli websites. There are a couple of ways to find things available for sale from Israeli websites. For the purpose of this example I'm going to be looking for a microphone that I want to purchase called the Shure SM58. Tip one, search on zap. I've covered zap in a separate video before. It's domain is zap.co.il and it's basically an aggregator that shows you where you can find products online from Israeli businesses. If I go on to zap and type in Shure SM58 as the product it will find a list of stores selling the microphone that I'm looking for. I can also click into any of the stores listed in order to learn what customers have to say about them in reviews. And I can also filter on price if I'm trying to simply find the best deal available for this particular product. Tip two, use Google shopping. Another tool that I sometimes use is Google shopping, although I don't like this approach as much as zap because you can't manually configure your location to be Israel. However, if you are searching from Israel and you aren't behind a VPN the website will automatically detect that that's where you're based and show you recommendations from Israeli online sellers. If I use the same search keyword for the Shure SM58 I'll also see a number of Israeli websites that I can purchase from and I can compare the price in shackles with international outlets. Tip three, use the co.il domain suffix. Most countries have registered TLDs which are extensions like .com which are meant to indicate which country a registered website belongs to. Israel's is .co.il. You can often find more Israeli websites than appear in zap by combining the product name with site colon co.il. This is one of Google's advanced search operators and will limit the search results to only websites that end in the .co.il extension. Using this method I was able to find a couple of additional retailers selling this microphone. Tip four, search in Hebrew. One of the unique things about Israel is that it's basically the only country in the world in which Hebrew is the official language. You can use this fact to your advantage when searching for products to buy online. For instance I can type microphone in Hebrew Miko phone and then SM58. This will again limit my results to online retailers based in Israel and I might even be able to discover a few additional options. As we all know it's typically cheaper to buy goods from shops that aren't based in Israel. However sometimes time is of the essence and in my experience the customer service that Israeli websites are offering is improving all the time and the popularity of online shopping in Israel seems to be constantly growing. If you'd like to get more videos about life in Israel and Jerusalem then consider subscribing for more videos.