Home or not.
Swipe right to save, left to pass, up to put it on the call list. Arrow keys work too.
Saved & call list
Hunt real flats & rooms.
Israeli rental sites block crawlers, so HomeCrawler builds each search for you. Pick a neighbourhood and what you need; every Hebrew site gets a one-tap English translation.
π Get new ads by email
Save these searches once, while logged in, and every new matching ad is emailed to you.
Alert email:
π£ Your "wanted" post
Post it in the Facebook groups, on Janglo and in WhatsApp communities. Budget and month come from π€; replace the phone number with yours before posting.
Hebrew words that find the cheap ones
Tap to copy, then paste into Yad2, Facebook or Google. Most Jerusalem room ads are posted in Hebrew only.
More resources
Orthodox giyur, Rabbinate-recognised.
Only programs that end at a state Rabbinate beit din. Pick one to make it your anchor: every place to stay gets scored by how far it is from class and synagogue.
The route for a non-citizen
Will the money last?
You cannot work during the process, so savings have to cover the committee wait and roughly a year of study. Rents below come from the market-research pass, each with its date and evidence grade.
Runway NIS
Savings left, month by month
What rooms really cost
| Where | What | NIS / month | Grade | Data date | Source |
|---|
Grade A = official measured data, B = aggregator or listing sample, C = blog or estimate. Ranges, never single numbers.
Rules of the hunt.
Visa, lease and Shabbat logistics. Not legal advice: confirm with the Conversion Authority and the Population and Immigration Authority.
π± Android app
HomeCrawler full screen on your phone. Rental sites, maps and WhatsApp open in their own apps; your profile and saved places stay on the phone.
Download APKAllow "install unknown apps" for your browser, then open the file.
Bring your own crawl
Run python3 crawler.py --areas all --max-price 3500, then load results/listings.json. Ads land on the map at their neighbourhood (β) and get scored like everything else.