Carmei Gat, for newcomers and locals
Places checked against their own sources, this week's Shabbat times and weather, what's on, and the practical answers newcomers ask for.
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This week
This week in Carmei Gat
כ״ט בְּתִשְׁרֵי תשפ״ז
Shabbat
Parashat Bereshit
Friday 9 October
- Candle lighting
- 17:56
- Havdalah
- 18:51
- Parsha:Parashat Bereshit (opens in a new tab)
- Haftarah:I Samuel 20:18-42 (opens in a new tab)
- Daf yomi:Bechorot 22 (opens in a new tab)
Readings from Hebcal (Israel schedule); texts open on Sefaria.
Coming up
- 11OctShai Keshet: 'Manginot Chayai' (songs of my life) show (opens in a new tab)11:00 · Kiryat Gat municipal company (matnas network)
- 11Oct"HaMe'az Menatzeach" 2026-2027 at Beit Yossi Shmila, Carmei Gat (opens in a new tab)17:01 · Kiryat Gat municipality events calendar / Matnas Kiryat Gat tickets
- 11OctChildren's show: 'Spider-Man: A New Day' (opens in a new tab)18:00 · Kiryat Gat municipal company (matnas network)
Who are you?
Start where you are
Pick the page that fits you: the first steps, the right places in the directory and the people to ask.
Explore
Everything for life in Carmei Gat
Local directory
Places checked against their own source
Every listing links to where its details came from and shows the date it was last checked. Filter by language spoken, kashrut and neighbourhood.
The place
A whole neighbourhood built on the fields since 2017
- Carmei Gat founded as Kiryat Gat's new northern neighbourhood
- 2017Carmei Gat founded as Kiryat Gat's new northern neighbourhoodSource (opens in a new tab)
- English-speaking families (community site, mid 2026)
- ~300English-speaking families (community site, mid 2026)Source (opens in a new tab)
- Trains each way through Kiryat Gat station on a Sunday
- 27Trains each way through Kiryat Gat station on a SundaySource (opens in a new tab)
The apartment towers of Carmei Gat on the horizon, seen across an open ploughed field from the city entrance
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New in town
Your first weeks in Carmei Gat, step by step
The paperwork, the health fund, the bank, the bus card and the arnona office, in the order that saves you trips. Your progress stays on your device.
- 1
Before you land
- Gather original documents
- Check your aliyah file is complete
- Compare the four health funds
- 2
First week
- Install Home Front Command and find your shelter
- Get a Rav-Kav or a payment app
- Open a bank account
- 3
First month
- Register for arnona at the municipality
- Sign up for ulpan
- Meet your absorption adviser
- 4
First three months
- Ask your employer about tax credit points
- Check your National Insurance status
- Decide on health fund supplementary cover
Guides
Practical guides, with the common questions answered
- 01Your first week in Carmei GatWho to call and where to go in your first week in Carmei Gat: the 106 hotline, the absorption offices, Misrad HaPnim, Bituach Leumi, arnona, the post office and the numbers to save.
- 02Carmei Gat and Kiryat Gat: the areas comparedCarmei Gat 01, 02, 03 and 07, Avnei HaChoshen, the planned Carmei Gat North and the older city: where the shuls, shops, parks and buses are, and what the community numbering means.
- 03Schools and gans in Carmei GatRegistration dates, the schools inside Carmei Gat, the new schools adding a grade a year, what's missing (a religious boys' high school) and who to call at the education department.
- 04Health funds, urgent care and hospitalsAll four kupot in Carmei Gat and Kiryat Gat, doctors who list English, Terem and the evening clinics, and an honest note on which hospital you'd be taken to.
- 05Getting around from Carmei GatTrains from Kiryat Gat station, the city buses that link Carmei Gat to the train, buses to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, the Rav-Kav desk and Route 6.
- 06Shabbat and shuls in Carmei GatThe shuls and minyanim English speakers use in Carmei Gat, Chabad, the mikvaot, candle-lighting time, the eruv and where families spend Shabbat afternoon.
Useful apps
The apps people here actually use
Organisations newcomers use
From our network
Good people I work with
A few organisations from the Consult With Ari network whose work reaches people in Carmei Gat.
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