How foreign caregivers register for care work in Israel

Do foreign caregivers in Israel have to register with an agency?

Yes. Registration with a licensed private bureau is mandatory for foreign caregivers in Israel, not a matter of preference. The Population and Immigration Authority supervises foreign caregivers through licensed bureaus, which handle the caregiver's registration and the placement with the employer named on the permit.

Care work in Israel is a "closed sector": a caregiver's B/1 work visa is valid for nursing and elderly home care only, and not for construction, agriculture, restaurants, cleaning companies or any other industry. Working outside the sector, or for an employer you are not registered to, puts your visa at risk.

• A caregiver must be registered with a licensed bureau to be lawfully placed with a family.
• The B/1 caregiving visa is normally issued for one year and can be renewed, up to a total of five years and three months.
• Changing employer is possible, but it has to go through the Authority and a licensed bureau — not privately.
• Registering with a bureau does not by itself create or extend a visa; permits and visas are decided by the Israeli authorities alone.

How much does it cost a caregiver to register?

Nothing. Not at Orshina and not at any other licensed bureau. Under the Foreign Workers Law, a licensed bureau may not charge a caregiver any fee, and doing so is a criminal offence — not a grey area and not something a caregiver has to negotiate.

Orshina's fees are paid by the family that employs the caregiver, and they are published: a one-time placement fee of ₪2,000 including VAT, and a monthly care fee of ₪70 including VAT per month of employment. These are the maximums permitted for licensed bureaus under the Authority's procedures. Nothing in that reaches the caregiver's side.

Who can register with Orshina?

Orshina registers foreign caregivers for home care of elderly and dependent people in Israel. You can register whether you are currently working, between placements, or looking to move to a new employer lawfully. Caregivers available for temporary replacement work — covering a colleague's rest day, home leave or illness — can register for that specifically.

Registration is a profile, not a promise. It makes you visible to Israeli families searching the catalog and to Orshina's placement team; it does not guarantee a job, a date, or a permit outcome, and no licensed bureau can honestly guarantee any of those.

What happens after you register?

Your profile is reviewed by Orshina's team and, once approved, published in the public catalog that Israeli families search. What families see is deliberately limited: your first name and an anonymous Worker ID, your country, the languages you speak, how long you have been working in Israel, the job types you want and your work region.

Your full name, phone number, address, documents and any other private detail are never published. Families do not get your contact details from the site — they contact Orshina, and Orshina contacts you.

About once a month Orshina asks whether you are still looking for work, so families only approach caregivers who are actually available. One tap answers it, and you can change your answer at any time from your personal area.

Licensed bureau, Facebook group, or a private broker?

Caregivers in Israel usually hear about three routes to a new placement. Only one of them is the route the Authority recognises.

A licensed bureau costs a caregiver nothing, which is precisely why it is worth going through one: the fee that funds the service is paid by the employing family, under a ceiling the Authority sets.

How to check that an agency is really licensed

Do this before you give your details to any agency in Israel, including this one. It takes two minutes and it is the single most useful habit a caregiver can have.

• Ask for the company's registered name and company number (ח.פ.) — a licensed bureau will give both without hesitating.
• Check that name against the Population and Immigration Authority's published list of licensed manpower companies for foreign workers.
• Check that the agency has a real, visitable office address in Israel.
• Confirm that nobody is asking you for money. A licensed bureau cannot charge you.
• Be careful with anyone who will only talk over a messaging app and will not put a company name in writing.

Orshina's details for that check: אורשינא - עובדים זרים בע"מ, company no. 515429694, phone 08-6762227, offices at HaNahal 1 Ashkelon, Tiomkin 16 Tel Aviv, Agripas 42 Jerusalem and Henrietta Szold 8 Beer Sheva. Reception Sun–Thu 08:30–16:00. Staff speak Hebrew, English, Russian, Spanish and Uzbek.

What Orshina does not do

Stated plainly, because a caregiver deciding who to trust deserves the limits as clearly as the offer:

• Orshina does not charge caregivers — ever, for anything.
• Orshina does not decide visas or permits. Those are decided by the Israeli authorities, and no bureau can promise an outcome.
• Orshina does not sell visas, and no payment can buy one from anyone.
• Orshina does not guarantee a specific job, a specific family, or a date.
• Orshina does not place caregivers outside home care — the caregiving visa does not permit other work.
• Orshina is not the caregiver's employer. The employer is the family or patient the permit is issued to.

Registering step by step

The whole thing takes about ten minutes on a phone, and you can stop and come back.

• Open the caregiver registration page and choose your language — English, Russian, Spanish, Uzbek or Hebrew.
• Fill in your personal details: name, country, date of birth, the languages you speak and your level of Hebrew.
• Add your work details: experience, when you entered Israel, your visa and documents, and the type of work you want.
• Choose your preferences: work regions, live-in or daily, and the care situations you are comfortable with.
• Add a photo and a few sentences about yourself — families read this, and it is what makes a profile get chosen.
• Submit. Orshina reviews the profile, and once approved it goes live in the catalog families search.

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