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Before You Leave Home

After receiving the Acceptance Letter from your coordinator, you will find the following steps helpful to prepare yourself.

1. Sign the Declaration Form and send it to your coordinator

2. Prepare Payments as detailed in the Acceptance Letter

3. Payment Confirmation

Please make sure you received confirmation for the payment deposit.

4. Inform Your Coordinator and Student Guide:

Please make sure you email Roni Barak (students@int.technion.ac.il) all of your flight information before you leave your home country: the arrival date, time, airline, and flight number. Make an appointment with your student guide to receive useful information like a Campus Map, your personal ID number as well as a Haifa travelling guide.

5. Complete Visa Requirements:

The time of your stay affects the type of the visa you need. Continuously updated information on visas can be found here:

http://ciar.technion.ac.il/visas/

You must apply for a Student Visa at the Israeli Consulate at your home country.

To learn more about Visa to Israel please visit:

http://www.thinkisrael.com/Tourism_Euk/Tourist%20Information/Planning%20your%20trip/Pages/Visa.aspx

For assistance with your student visa please contact Sapir Hazan:

visas@int.technion.ac.il.

Your checklist

15 things that you're most likely to forget when packing

(percentage expresses the probability to forget)

Umbrella - 31%
Sun lotion - 25%
Adapter - 23 %
Books - 15 %
Guidebook - 13 %
Toothpaste / Toothbrush - 10 %
Medications - 9 %
Antiperspirant - 9 %
Camera - 8 %
Shekel - 7 %
Glasses / contact lenses - 6 %
Computer / laptop / smartphone - 5 %
Swimming things - 5 %
Documents - 1 %
Passport - 1%

6. Health Insurance

You must send your signed Health Declaration Form, prior to your arrival to Israel. All Technion International School students MUST have full health insurance coverage while in Israel. We recommend Harel Medical Insurance. The insurance costs approximately $400 per semester payable upon your arrival to Israel. Payment will be done by credit card or in cash (USD or NIS). If you are an Israeli citizen and you have a state medical coverage, you are exempt from paying the medical insurance cost upon providing proof of your medical coverage.

Click here to receive a Harel Health Insurance.

7. Accident Insurance

Students registered at the Technion should also have adequate accident insurance coverage, which is the student’s responsibility and should be arranged prior to the student’s arrival at the Technion.

The Student Association fee, which is included in the fees you are asked to pay, includes compulsory basic accident insurance*, which is provided by the Student Association during the academic year only. If you intend to arrive at the Technion prior to the start of the Winter semester or remain beyond the end of the Spring semester, you should consider arranging for accident insurance coverage for the period during which you are not covered by the Student Association policy.

* The basic coverage provided by the Student Association policy is minimal and includes: 80,000 Shekels for fatal accident; up to 130,000 Shekels for permanent total disability; 450 Shekels per week (up to one year) for temporary total disability. We urge you to take out a supplemental policy which will provide more adequate coverage.

8. What to Bring

Haifa has a Mediterranean climate, with typical winter temperatures from 5˚C-17˚C, while summer temperatures range from 19˚C-30˚C or higher. The rainy season is from mid- November to mid-March, with approximately ten rainy days per month during this season. Bring warm winter clothing, including raincoat/winter coat and umbrella in the winter. While it may be cold outdoors, most indoor facilities (including dormitory rooms) are centrally heated. The summers are hot, and the humidity can be high, so bring light-weight clothing.

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