Nice tool to search for Jobs in Israel

Are you looking for a job? Do you find yourself having to search many different sites everyday for new listings? Do you find your email box loaded with job alerts from many different job sites?  If you wish to reduce the drudgery of searching online then I would suggest you try out the job listing search tool provided by: http://www.indeed.co.il/ which I came across the other day.

You can use their job search tool online at their website or download their app for android and iphones.  The tool allows you to search multiple job sites and view the integrated results on one page.  It also allows you to save job keywords and location keywords and then have the site automatically send you the results of your search everyday to your email.

The site takes feeds from most of the popular jobsites (jobinfo, israemploy, alljobs and many more), so that you can get a quick summary of what is out there, quickly.  The format is similar to that of Google so it won't take you long to learn how it works.

Try it out and let me know if you agree with my assessment.

It's Official - Exit Telephone & Internet Contracts with minimal fees

As of tomorrow you will be able to exit your Telephone, Internet and Cable contracts without a major penalty. The maximum the service providers will be able to charge is 8% of your bill multiplied by the number of months remaining on your contract.

It may be difficult to get through to the providers over the next little while as I anticipate many wishing to make a change.  Here is one article in Hebrew from the Marker about the topic:

http://www.themarker.com/consumer/1.1560299

Pouring the Concrete Page 2

Pouring Concrete for Basement Walls

This truck is used to pump the concrete from the cement truck to the house frames

Framing the Basement

Almost every house in Israel is framed in concrete (re-inforced with metal rods). Conceptually what the contractor does is create a mold whose width is the width of the wall. Within the mold they add metal rods which re-inforces the concrete. What you see in the pictures is the completed mold of the basement of the house.

Building the Base

After the perimeter of the house was marked, the contractor built footings which will eventually support the ceilings of the basement. Next up was the plumber. The plumber installed a sewer tank on the North side of the house. The sewer tank will be used to pump the sewage from the house to the City sewer mains. The reason we need a pump is that the washrooms in the basement are below the City sewer mains. After the sewer tank was in place the plumber laid out the sewer pipes which will be buried beneath the floor of the basement.

You can see in the photos black pipes sticking up from the ground. These pipes will be used to remove the sewege from the basement washrooms. Once the plumbing pipes were in place a rough surface of concrete was poured; forming the base for the house. On top of the base of the house the insulating contractor melted weather stripping . These strips form the barrier between the outside and our house. Hopefully if the contractor did his job correctly we won't have water problems. The big black room in the back is the pool room which will house the pool mechanical equipment.

Marking the House Boundaries

It's been over a month and lots has been happening on the building site. After the site was excavated the builder demarcated the bounderies of the house. Below you can see pictures of the wood rails used to mark off the perimeter of th ehouse