 Hi friends and subscribers, welcome back to my YouTube channel, my name is Daniel Rosal. This channel focuses on life on the ground in Jerusalem and Israel. In late 2021, Google Pay officially launched in Israel. The mobile payment solution means that Israeli customers can pay for goods and services using their smartphones at NFC supported point of sale terminals. Israelis are famously crazy about everything to do with smartphones and Android phones actually enjoy more than 70% of the market share here. So alongside the launch of Apple Pay, it's kind of been a technological match made in heaven. Throughout the country, Israelis now use their phones and digital wallets to pay for goods and services. Of course, digital wallets are useful for storing much more than just payment cards. Another staple item in every Israeli's wallet is their health fund card, which allows them to access healthcare services from one of the four national healthcare funds or Kupot Cholim in Hebrew. That's why I was delighted to learn that Maccabi have allowed their card to be imported into Google Wallet. This actually happened a few months ago, so I'm a bit late to the day with these instructions, but I figured better late than never. Thanks to Hannah for the hat tip. Step one is to navigate to this landing page on the Maccabi site. I found it by googling maccabi ornak digital maccabi digital wallet, but you can also search for those terms in English and you should find this page. Do this on your smartphone. Next, click on the purple link that says in Hebrew, link lihoridatakartis or in English, a link to download the card. You'll then be directed towards another dialogue box that allows you to add the health card to your Google Wallet. The next time you go to your doctor's appointment, the physician should have an NFC reader on his or her desk, which you can just tap with your phone instead of presenting your card. Of course, user interfaces change over time and these instructions are specific for Google Wallet on Android, so if you're an Apple kind of guy or gal, then I'm afraid these steps aren't going to help you. If you want to get more videos from me about life in Israel, then please consider liking this video and subscribing to this YouTube channel. Thank you for watching.