 Welcome to another of my Living in Israel video tutorials slash demos, whatever you want to call them, on YouTube. So I'm just making a few videos for the benefit of, I guess, just anyone with relatively limited Hebrew trying to find out how to do some, navigate some common websites. And I will be transitioning next into Green Invoice, which is an account, an invoicing platform for freelancers that I've been using for a number of years and which I strongly recommend. The flipside is that it doesn't have any English interface. So if you're moving into freelancing in Israel, I'll be showing that. And the ones I have done so far have been, in this video series, have been Superfarm, which is the Israeli pharmacy and Shufra Salady's ready grocery store. So I'm making this at the time of the coronavirus, as you can see from the demo on Yat Shtaim, their homepage. So that's kind of the motivations for these, but this is more general. So I just want to give, I'm going to make this a five or 10 minute video, if possible, and quickly explain what this is. So Yat Shtaim is like the main, secondhand, Yat Shtaim literally means, Yat Shniah actually is a secondhand thing, whether that's a car or a table or a refrigerator. And it's a huge website in Israel. A lot of rental properties also go up on Yat Shtaim. So it's Yad2, toishtaim.co.il. Their web interface has gotten a lot better over the years. And this is, I'm recording this on the 3rd of April. So this is how it looks right now. I'm going to just basically show how to go flat hunting for renters. So I'm just, maybe I'm extrapolating from myself to other people too much, but I think a lot of people, maybe, who this video might be relevant or interesting for, would probably be in the position of having moved to Israel and looking for rental apartments. Now, a lot of stuff is going up on Facebook groups, that's always been the case, but there are certain advantages to searching in Yat Shtaim that exceed those of Facebook groups. So, let me just before I jump into the rental search facilities, I'll talk about some of the stuff here that you have. Nadlan, the top category. This is, again, how it looks at the time of recording, but it hasn't changed that much over the years. So Nadlan is property. You have here Diorot Lamechera, which is properties for sale. So if you're in the market to buy a house or an apartment, that's your page. Diorot Lamechera is flats or apartments to rent. Shutlafim is roommates. So if you're looking for a room share, in other words, you don't want your own place, that's the button to click. Then they also have Rechev, which is cars. So you're looking for private cars and secondhand cars. Yat Shniya is just general, Rehuta's furniture. Selolari is cell phones. You have all manner of secondhand items. Drushim is a, what's the word in English, like vacancies. You know, a jobs board basically. So they have that as well here. Akola Ezek, this is a relatively new sectionist stuff for businesses. Chayot is animals, pets. You even have horses here. Let me just check this out quickly, the horse market. Dogs, cats, all manner of animals are actually being sold on Yajdaim. Bale Mktoa, this is just a directory for Installatoria as a plumber. So you can find professionals in your area to call up for your plumbing or whatever. And that's it. So let's just take a look for today's video on Diorot Lamechera, which is, as I said, rentals. Okay, these are the boxes. So you have your basic search option, firstly. And the second thing you have is Khipuz Mitkadem, which is, that's advanced search, okay? So the first thing is Chapsu Azor, Iyer, Shchuna or Achov. So you can search by area. That wouldn't be too useful for most people. That would be like a block of the country. Iyer is probably what most people would be looking for. Shchuna is neighborhood, and I'm just going to highlight the words as I say them. Shchuna is neighborhood and Rechov is street. So most people, let's say we're looking in Yerushalayim. So when I start typing it, Yud, Reish, Vav, stuff starts coming up, okay? So as I type in Yerushalayim, that's Jerusalem for those that are not aware. You can see, you have neighborhood, you can search in Azor. So Yerushalayim and Machoz Yerushalayim. Now these are actually, these are defined things in Israel, Azorim and Machozim, as well as the city. So there would be reasons, but you can click here when you type in Yerushalayim. So we can go for the city, we can go for the area, or we can go for the Machoz. So I'm just going to click on the city. That'll go according to the municipal boundaries. And for most people, that would probably be enough. But we could also look in a certain neighborhood, right? So we have Gilo, Givat Mordechai, Katamonim. We even have Siloan over here. I'm just going to do the whole city, right? Now, next, next dropdown is Sugneches. That is what type of property. And you can click on Otsugim to increase the options. So just in terms of, if you don't know where in Hebrew, I recommend putting, installing onto your computer the Google Translate add-on. And you can just watch this. You can drag over some Hebrew text. Click on this fella. And Dhumishpakti townhouse, right? So you can get a quick translation there. But I'll just talk to some of them. Dira is obviously a Dira, which means an apartment. So I'm going to take that. Sometimes you're actually better off not taking any of these options and just getting everything because you might want a few. You might miss some. So it's kind of sometimes safer. And then this is another one people would check for a bit, which is a storage unit. And Sublet is here. This is Sublet. And this is Studio. Chania is a parking space. Yes, people sell parking spaces here. Yichidat Diyu'u is a single unit, single apartment unit. Triplex is a triplex. Martaf is a basement if you feel like living in a basement for some reason. So I'm going to take Dira. I'm going to take Yichidat Diyu'u and just that. Chadarim is the number of rooms. And this is M' from. And this is Add 2. So you have two sides to this dropdown. So you can go for, let's say we're looking for a one to two bedroom apartment. One to two over there. And this is Mechir. This is, we're in, yeah, we are in rentals. Okay. This is the, sorry, Mechir Be Shekelim Chadashim. Hebrew is full of these things that are called kitsurim. And sometimes I think that I was thinking that the bait was in the kitsur. This is just Shekelim Chadashim. So this is price in Shekels. Mechir is from the price. And Mechir is to price. So let's say we're looking for a place for 6,000 to 10,000 Shekels. One, two, three, four, five, 10,000. Okay. So we're looking for one to two. Let's just recap here in Jerusalem. We're looking for apartments. We are looking for one to two rooms between 6,000 and 10,000 Shekels. Now, just to the left here, we have a button that says, Anit Hippus Mitkadem. That means advanced search. Mitkadem means advanced. This gives you more options. And I do think this is actually important. Now bear in mind what I said previously that sometimes people putting up Yatch time listings are sloppy. And even though something has a Mizzouk air conditioning, which if you are from a temperate climate like me, you will not survive in Israeli summer without air conditioning. But sometimes people are lazy and they publish. They do have air conditioning, but they just don't bother to take the box. So the danger by taking these boxes is you'll miss out on perfectly good listings that meet your criteria. Nevertheless, I'll just describe what these do. So what some of these are, some of those that would be relevant. Starting on right to left as Hebrew goes. Me affine, that's properties. Just a little bit of vodka I picked up here. Delacote Pandora is like these kind of iron doors. Mamad, this is a Makom Mogan Dirati. This is a safe room. Now I'm not sure why that's actually a filter because I think every apartment dirati, sorry dirati, you have also Mamak, which is a Makom Mogan Komati, which is one for the whole floor. But by law I think everyone after a certain year has to have a Mamad every apartment in Israel. But anyway, it's a filter. So I'm not going to bother taking that. Merohetet is one people would be interested in. That means furnished. So if you're looking for a furnished place, I'm going to take this. These are bars for the windows. What else could be useful for people here? Sometimes rentals come with a Maksana storage unit. Mizug air conditioning, as I said, essential, essential, essential. Merohetet is a porch. Mechupetet is a place that's been through as she puts, which means a renovation. So this means renovators. So just to recap on the main ones, I want to take on the advanced filter search. You might want to go for furnished. That's Merohetet. You might want to go for Mizug. That's short for Mizug Avir. Merpeset is a balcony slash a veranda. And certainly I lived in a place without a... Actually, I still do. We have a rooftop you can use, but we actually don't. It's quite a nice apartment, but I think it really affects your quality of life. Something you don't think about. I'm Meshupetet. Fuma is floor. So you can go for a place on floor one to two. Now, if memory serves me correctly, in Israel, floor one is the ground floor. And in the U.S. floor, they call that floor zero. So I... Sorry, zero is ground. So this is basically the purpose of this filter, is if you don't want it to be above a certain floor. So this is up to and including. So let's say floor three. This is the size of the apartment in square meters. So if you want to avoid living in a shoebox, for example, we might be looking for an apartment 60 square meters and up. In which case, we would take the minimum filter and just leave this guy blank. This is actually quite important. This is the entry date. So again, people tend to... People tend to not take stuff down on the edge time. And you might want to specify. This will mean going forward. So third of April now today. So let's say the entry we're ready to move in in a few days. Now, actually at the moment, we might find very little because of coronavirus. And this is... is immediate entry, okay? So I'm just going to leave this blank because I think the market's kind of a bit vanishing at the moment. Thankfully, I'm not actually looking. Chippus Chovshi is free text. So if you want to search for a keyword that might appear, you can put that in there and click on Chippus. And the moment of truth comes. Wow, we only found two places in the whole of Jerusalem that met our... So this probably is not realistic. It could be actually because of the fact that there is a government lockdown and I don't think you can actually legally move apartment now. Actually, there's only one. So I'm just going to loosen up a bit on these criteria. I'm going to take off the room criteria. I'm just going to take off the budget criteria and I'm going to specifically also take off all the Chippus Mitkadem. So that was just for demo purposes. And let's just see. Probably we'll find more stuff now. Yes, we have indeed found more stuff. We actually found 703 advertisements. And that's too much. But let me just explain how the listings work here. So you have ones from realtors and you have ones which are estate agents. For a separate video about the kind of scam in which legally estate agents are not allowed to charge tenants for their estate agent fee, which is one month's rent plus 17% fat. It's a complete scandal that that was actually outlawed over a year ago. And yes, what estate agents do is simply say, okay, if you don't want to pay the fee, we're not going to show you the apartment. So pay the fee. It's mafioso stuff. But that's unfortunately the reality that we have to deal with. But yeah, at the time of helpfully, you see this word here, TVUG, which is on top of the preview image. So that will basically tell you that it's from an estate agent. Now, you will get people that are not estate agents that are actually listing stuff. But that is it. So you can see the ones in red are from an estate agent. So you can see just the name of the list here is TVUG HaRail. It's in, sorry, it's in highlight basically, right? So you can see the name of the estate agent TVUG. Look out for TVUG. But these ones would be private, the ones that are just in the white, okay? Now, you can click on this little attractive heart icon in order to put that to a shortlist, okay? Basically, and there are two main ways to search through this, right? So you have a source according to date listed, and that's probably the best way for most people. That's the latest ones come first. This is my patriotic, Trilller R attempt in Hebrew. So that's ordering from expensive to cheap. You can choose only to see ones with a photograph. So if you take Im Tmuna, and let that all turn to orange, and Im Achir is ones that have a price. So this will, if you click on these buttons, you will filter out listings with no price, which is always kind of shady. You need to call them anyway. And this will filter out the ones with no photograph. So basically, click into one of them here. Let's go for this one here. You can see the address. This is the neighborhood in Jerusalem, Talbiyah, Komemiot, Jerusalem, three rooms. One, it's on floor one. It's 75 square meters, and it is 8,500 shackles, and there are four photos. So you can click on this, and basically this is how you look at the photos. You click on the photo thing. One, two, three, four. Beautiful. There's T'ur, An'ekhes, it's description. Shalosh kivonavir, three, like winds. My English is getting poor. Wind from three directions. We're past the Shemesh. There is a sun balcony. We're past the Chiroutes. Two merpasot. Two balconies on this thing. It's knisam yadid for immediate entry. The vad bay, which is the fee you pay to the House committee. That's this one here. That's lechodesh for the month. It's 250 shackles a month. It's on floor three. Now this is also important. The Arnona lechotshaim. You see the two yuts here. That means for two months. It's the jewel. In Hebrew there is a grammatical form for just two. There's singular jewel in plural and Semitic languages, right? So that means for two months. So that's Arnona is 500 for two months. That means the Arnona, which is the municipal tax, is 250 shackles per month, which means Arnona is, excuse my bad, mathematics, 3,000 shackles a year. So if you're looking at this overseas, that would be $800 per year in addition to the rent that the renter has to pay. So when you're looking at the rent, the cost of rent in an Israeli apartment, you need to factor in, one, the rent. Two, the Arnona. Three, the Vatbhai. So the Vatbhai is 250 shackles a month. So that would add an additional 3,000 shackles per year onto the cost of renting this place. What is in the apartment? So they have lovely icons here. So let's just zoom in a bit so we can make this more clear. You can see Mizug is ticked. So there is air conditioning as we search for. Rehoot, it's furnished. So Sorghum. I'm going to rely on my trusty bars, as you said. That's those. I think they look kind of a bit depressing, to be honest. But some people like them. They're the bars, but they're good for anti-thefts, keeping your robbers. Sorghum is the correct verbalization. So also this is a cool site called morphix.co.il for those learning Hebrew. So, okay. And Mitbach Kasser. This is important. This is a kosher kitchen. So basically this person is insisting that the renter keeps, maintains kosher. So that would be like religious landlords who wants a religiously-observing tenant so that the tenant doesn't render their kitchen on kosher. Purut, Rehoot. This is details about the furniture that they have. This is actually quite a new thing. Two bedrooms. Excuse my Hebrew. I'm working on my Hebrew. Everything is good. Everything is new and it's tastefully done. It's in English, I guess. This is one that they say all the time. Designed by an architectural design. Now, standards of rentals in Israel are pretty crap. Excuse my language. And you will find gross exaggerations. That might just mean something very basic. A kolmukhan al-mugharim. Sorry, that's the end of that. So that's everything you can do. Here you have the Miss Parahuda app. This is, if you're really interested, I would actually take this down because you can use it to search quickly through Yachtime for this particular thing, right? Now, a few more buttons just to quickly bring to your attention. This whole website is built on, I think it's like JavaScript, so it doesn't take kindly to zooming. So I'm going to have to zoom out again. But you can click on this button to open this in an external tab. And now you have a unique URL. If you look at the URL here, it's actually, let me just zoom in by putting that into a notepad. This is the all-important, unique URL for the property. Yachtime.co.l slash item slash, a unique one, two, three, four, five, six digit identifier. So, you know, in the all-important process of sending prospective apartments to your prospective roommates slash parents, whatever, having that unique ID so you don't lose the ads that you're interested in, it's better than taking this heart icon, in my opinion. So that's a cool feature. You can print it, and this will just copy the link to your clipboard. This will open up a pop-up allowing you to send it by email. This is sharing on Facebook, and this is sharing on WhatsApp. And that is essentially really all there is to show. Now, the last thing I want to do is draw people's attention to Hatsag al-Kape Amapah, and this means show on the map. So if you're new to a city and you don't know where all the neighbourhoods are, there's not really much use going through a gigantic list and seeing this is in Talbiyah, this is in Naht al-Od, et cetera, right? So you can go onto this, Hatsag al-Kape Amapah, and you'll click into Jerusalem. So you might have a few target neighbourhoods now. I would consider myself a bit of a veteran of the flat-hunting game in Jerusalem particularly. So I've done... I kind of know... The advantage of this over Facebook is that you can do it visually, right? So, like, if you go onto Facebook group and there's just tons of random things, here you can say, I'm interested in emicrafayim, let's say. This is this, and each neighbourhood will appear. And you can see there's a count. There are 13 properties currently in emic. And now they have a colour coded again, and let me just make sure I have this information. Right, the ones with an orange boundary to the price are those being sold by a realtor, right? So this is... You see Tivuh here in brackets. So this is from a realtor. This is a realtor listing. Hatsagat Misparat Telafon. So this is the name of... Name of the lister, right? Yoni. So this is... Again, I'm not assuming that people know Hebrew, but you might even be able to just do visual recognition. So this is Yoni as the name of the person. This is... And you click in order to unveil their phone number. So that's their number. So everything works in Israel by phone, so you can drop that into your phone or WhatsApp and call the person, right? And then you have... These are private listings. So same thing except that it's been known by private individuals. So I think I have heard from outside my home office that there was food burgers imminently being delivered, so it seems like a good time to wrap up this video. This is basically how to use Yajdaim, calling people, whatever. You can also... Same process exactly if you're looking to buy. You can even go into the Matthew for buying as well. The only difference is going to be that the numbers are going to be obviously larger. If and the searches are slightly different. Even the same process for looking at cars. It's just a... If you've got a private car here, it's just different search options. You can search for manual. Yatsuran manufacturer, you know, you have your Opels and your other ones and Bachar to click. Different searches based on what you go for. But essentially if you are looking for... And let me just show quickly also before I wrap this up. Shutafim, which is the room shares. Flat shares. Same thing. The first thing is your area. So let's do Tel Aviv this time to keep it varies. I'm going to go for Iyer Tel Aviv Yaffo. Bachar, the price, 5,000. And this is just for a room, so let's go for lower figures. I don't know the rate at the moment, but let's say 3,000 to 6,000 shackles. And Shutafim is the number of people sharing. So from 2 again, so you might want to live two people. Obviously it's U plus 1, so that's the minimum. Let's say you don't want to live with too many flatmates. So 2 to 3 would be U plus 1 or U plus 2. Same stuff in terms of... As just looking for a place to yourself. You can see the URL structure here is roommates. And now you're only seeing listings for... These people are all offering a room, not an actual place. So if we take this listing in Tel Aviv for instance, Arlazarov 25. It's been actually a while since... Yeah, Arlazarov is out street there in Tel Aviv. Quite central to the beach. Lovely. Click for the person's phone number. Gaya, this is her phone number. Description is down here. And pictures now should show a room, the room. So this is the room that they're renting. Not too bad, but what? What was the price again? 4,000 shekels just for that room. And the living spaces. So guys, that's pretty much everything there is to know about looking on the edge time for rental properties. Hope this has been helpful. At the end of every video, I just quickly drop in the link to my website. If I just get rid of the blog here. Danielrosel.co.al. I cannot be able to personally help you with your flat hunting adventure, but I'm always happy to just get in touch with people and correspond on any other questions. So if you are currently looking for your next apartment, good luck with the process. And at the moment during the coronavirus, please stay home and stay safe.