 Hey guys welcome back to my youtube channel this is Daniel Rosso here bringing you this video from Jerusalem. Very very exciting news recently as if the imminent arrival of car four in Israel wasn't big enough news. We now have Aliexpress apparently dispatching stuff locally from within Israel. Now if you don't know what Aliexpress is if you're lucky enough to have better e-commerce options it is a Chinese website it's the direct to consumer side of Alibaba so those who do business purchasing probably know Alibaba huge trade merchant merchant online marketplace and Aliexpress is sending stuff out of China out of the east direct to consumers. Now I've been using Aliexpress for seven years and I've bought literally thousands of products I do not exaggerate on the marketplace. It's a good website with the exception that the customer service is kind of non-existent almost but the main problem has been that it takes a long time to come to Israel. Nevertheless Israel a tiny country of only about 10 million people has emerged surprisingly as one of Aliexpress's main customer base and I think the reason for that it's a combination of frustration on the part of consumers with the high price of local goods the fact that Amazon does ship to Israel now but it's still a relatively small part of their inventory and it still only makes sense to ship certain things to Israel in other words the current free shipping to Israel after only starts from $49 so if you have if you want to buy a $20 item might have $15 shipping so it's still not really it's basically there's still a large disc a large gulf between the utility of Amazon in the USA especially using Amazon Prime and Israel so Israelis have emerged as a surprise huge customers of Aliexpress now we did see in the news a few months ago that Aliexpress were trying to improve their logistics to Israel because I think the volume of orders here took them by surprise and now we've seen more exciting news I'm just going to screw my microphone stand here that they are actually beginning to warehouse goods in Israel so I'm going to jump over here to the actual news coverage as reported on Globes somewhat recently this was reported here on the 11th of August Aliexpress opens warehouse warehouses in Israel the Chinese online retail giant has set up warehouses in airport city to store products insurance delivery times now for folks who don't know what what airport city is it's a commercial industrial park located right next to Ben Gurion airport which is Israel's main international airport in fact it's only one of about two really with the new Ramon airfield next to a lat so very logical place it means that Aliexpress can fly in air freight from the far east and then just bring it over to their fulfillment center in airport city literally a stones throw from the runway online retail giant Aliexpress owned by China's Alibaba group has been operating and just a little bit problematic the English here so I'm going to translate has been operating a pilot project in Israel in recent weeks by leasing warehouses at airport city near Ben Gurion airport and storing products for direct delivery in Israel the idea is to allow customers to order products online that are already stored in Israel the speed up delivery times blah blah blah now I've actually been noticing that there have been some products shipping from Israel for about a year now it's been now and again I see something that ships from Israel the difference is as far as I can tell some Israeli merchants were participating on Aliexpress but now Aliexpress the company is warehousing merchandise in Israel now let's jump over to Aliexpress and show you guys how to find stuff that ships to Israel right so I was looking for a another isolation shield for my lovely array of microphones so I said this would be a good little test case right so I've searched for let's just keep it simple pop filter microphone and now in Aliexpress we have the familiar minimum minimum minimum maximum price settings the very useful free shipping toggle and we now have a ship from option and what you need to do is go down and click on Israel now we're going to see our stock contracting a bit because it's a pilot and they don't have a ton of stuff store it here but let's take a look at a sample product we have a isolation booth here something very similar to the one I bought from amazon recently but a little bit cheaper now here's my warning to you guys right you may think well we've selected it ships to Israel so I'm just going to click buy now and it'll come from Israel in a few days instead of a month not the case you have to be careful see here under free shipping from China to Israel so this is by default still going to dispatch out of China so in order to change it to Israel we need to click under more options and have a look so this is what we're seeing now this is a very very early days of the trial so I don't want to be too hard on Aliexpress yet but this is kind of the classic conundrum of things that don't make sense to ship to Israel the shipping from Israel to Jerusalem where I live is 24 dollars and 55 cent on an item that's only 11 dollars right so that's an example of it doesn't make sense the shipping is more than the actual pop filter for some reason the price is changing I'm not 100 percent sure what's going on here but most of these options are still ex-China we have DHL as usual being the most expensive option at 95 dollars and we have tracking options for FedEx for 68 dollars but the dispatch out of Israel option is 25 dollars rounding up so let's try a smaller item because these you know pop filters are pretty bulky a lot of fairly heavy bit of metal in them let's just go for a more simple consumer purchase of bluetooth earphones same thing is going to happen here it's not going to remember your shipping preference so you want to go over and click on Israel and then we're going to filter and then as before our options are becoming smaller let's just take this I'm going to go for 20 dollar product so it's not hopefully complete rubbish bluetooth earphone qualcomm again same thing happens here from China to Israel via DHL that's the free shipping method so once again I need to click into more options and now we actually have free shipping ex-israel so this is one of the items that you can get for free from Israel and I'm not sure what the delivery times are going to be it says here estimated delivery four to ten days as opposed to typically in my long experience buying aliexpress products from Israel I'd say a month is I've had some outliers come in 10 days but a month or longer is typical so that's a much shorter delivery time and it's going to be delivered we're going to skip the whole air freight aspect from China to Israel and we're just going to do final mile delivery in Israel so that should significantly speed up things now I did find a couple of things that had nominal relatively nominal shipping fees shipping fees ex-israel so I want to show one of those items too here is a cheaper in you know one of these wireless earphone things for about five bucks and actually we have $7 shipping here from Israel to Jerusalem $7.37 that's an untracked shipping method so I want to caution that it's early very early days in the trial here and this didn't from the news coverage it read more like this is a pilot project and something definite they're currently renting a warehouse space in airport city more importantly from the consumer standpoint I'm buying an aliexpress change the ship option to Israel you're going to filter on products that will ship to Israel and then you're a but then you have to make sure that it's actually shipping using an Israeli delivery method and not ex-China because you have to do that second step too there are completely free shopping is free shipping options all within Israel which is a very big deal this is the first time I've seen it in aliexpress and there's some of some of them are costing more and some of them are costing enough that it's it makes more sense to just get it from China as usual and wait that month period for it to write to your home in Israel if you're looking at buying stuff on aliexpress in Israel I hope this video was interesting this is a pretty big development living in Israel is getting easier and the more international companies decide to sell here more competition on in the local market and hopefully gonna lead to better consumer prices for all of us thank you guys for watching if you do want to get more videos for me about living in Israel subscribe check out the living in Israel playlist which is where I aggregate those videos and until the next video thanks for watching