The Application Process

Welcome to the LIFE application process. There are several steps in this process; we have tried to make them both friendly and professional. Please contact us at any stage if something is unclear or doesn’t seem to fit your situation.

The steps to take are:

1.     LIFE Postcard

Fill out and send us what we call a “LIFE postcard” (available HERE), together with your resume.  That gives us an indication your application maybe on the way and allows us to communicate.

2.     LIFE Application

Please complete and send us all parts of the LIFE Application Package, including:

1.      The LIFE Application Form (available HERE), comprising the following sections:

• Personal information
• Academic, professional and community involvement experience
• Essay section

2.      Copy of Degree(s)

3.      Medical Insurance forms filled out and signed (available HERE).

4.      Your Doctor’s Recommendation (available HERE)

5.  Copy of key pages from your Passport (see details under ‘Visa and Overseas Flights')

6.      Good digital photo of you (scan of Passport photo if possible)

7.      Ask two people to complete and directly send the LIFE Letter of Recommendation (available HERE).

8.  Pay the $50 (non-refundable) processing fee (see payment methods HERE)      

NOTE:

• Please send #1 by email AND a signed version by fax. Send #2, #3, #4 and #5 as scanned files by email, if possible, or by fax. Send #6 by email.
•  Emails should have ‘LIFE application your name’ as the subject.
• Email: yonatan@btzedek.org.il  Fax: +972-1532-6749011.

3.     Interview

We interview you over the phone. There may be the need for two such interviews.

4.     Decision

We process your application and notify you whether your candidacy was accepted.

5.     Next Steps

If you are accepted – Mazal Tov! Then:

•  You start to make the scheduled payments (see HERE).
• We:

1.      Send you updates as the program start gets nearer

2.      Are available for questions

3.      Email with you personally about your travel plans and other details

6.     Some general comments about the process

This process is designed to let us get to know you and for you to know the program and its demands. Our goal is to make a good fit between people who participate in the program and the program itself. We relate in this process to the needs of the participants, the agencies they will intern with, the people and communities they will work with and serve, the community of other participants they will live with and the interests of future participants (as represented by the reputation of the program as it grows over time).

It may turn out that some applicants are not suitable. However, our goal is to find and accept people who are suitable, not to rank or grade you and not to give you a hard time. So bear with us and don’t be pressured; we will get through this.