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Many people will find it hard to believe that native English speaking immigrants are among the immigrant groups exploited in Israel. It seems that the Zionist dream has turned into a nightmare for many Anglos. Aliyah of choice turned into a battle to scrap together enough money to put food on the table.

It is true that many of the immigrants coming from the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and other English speaking countries may be equipped with a good education and some savings. But their skills are not always in demand or valued in the Israeli economy. For each job vacancy, there are 100 applicants. The economic laws of supply and demand have conspired to keep the salaries low.

My French immigrant friends have told me that they are encountering the same problems in securing employment.
New Anglo immigrants like me share some of the responsibility for our feckless fate. Many English speakers are slow to learn Hebrew. Since many Israelis want to practice their English, there is not as pressing a need for us to learn Hebrew as it is for other new immigrants groups.

Many new immigrants also have trouble transferring their degrees, especially advanced ones. After arguing with the Ministry of Health for four years, one doctor of osteopathic medicine had to hire a lawyer to get his license in Israel. Even PhDs do not transfer easily. My friend Lauren could not get her PhD from the University of Paris recognized in Israel. She only earned the salary of a teacher with a Master’s degree.

Throughout history, greenhorns have been taken advantage of by native sons. This is not a new story or unique to Israel. I just did not realize the extent of the oppression here. The use of the word oppression is not an exaggeration.
A recent posting on a Yahoo group for freelance writers in Israel offered experienced travel writers $6 to $8 dollars an hour. The company offering the job was too embarrassed to even identify themselves.

David Nordell, a member of the group and a former correspondent for AP, posted this response, “please remember that $6 an hour translates into about 26 NIS which at the official working month of about 150 hours (180 less breaks) comes to less than 4000 shekels, or less than 1000 dollars.”

He continued, “Most Israeli companies and publications behave with little or no respect for the writers, who usually invest a great deal of time and trouble in their work, both because Israeli business culture doesn’t understand that you need to pay well to get high quality work (and conversely, that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys), and because there is a much larger supply of English-speakers who can write than there is demand for their work.”
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This unlivable wage is not unique to writers. After graduation from Ulpan, my beautiful and well spoken friend Stephanie H. searched high and low for a job. She finally found a job for 4000 shekels a month “selling Viagra to old men from Texas or their girlfriends” at an Israeli company which illegally shipped the organic Viagra from India to the United States.
Stephanie arrived late for dinner before the start of Yom Kippur because her Israeli boss did not close down the office for the holiest of holy days in the Jewish calendar. Stephanie gave up a job in the film business in London to make Aliyah. She, and I, question whether it was worth it.

Call centers operated by IDT and HAS Advantage Visa are some of the biggest employers in the country. If you chose to work through the night, you can earn 45NIS an hour. While they are not selling Viagra, they are collecting payment from bounced checks or selling credit cards. Most college graduates are overqualified for this type of work but many Anglos in Israel can not find another work.
Friendly Technologies advertised for someone to build a potential customer database. In an effort to better integrate into Israel and upgrade my Hebrew by working in a Hebrew environment, I took the job.

Since I had previously taught cold calling at Merrill Lynch for hundreds of dollars an hour, my pay of 30 shekels an hour and a bonus of 20 shekels for each name that I added to the data base was quite a comedown.
Like a factory worker that was paid by the piece, it was “suggested” to me that I add 3 names to the data base every hour. I was a factory worker doing piece work.

In the beginning, I adhered to this work rule and ate any additional time it took me to do my work. The salesman that I was working with had four solid leads from my work. His typical sale was the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
As a part time freelancer, I did not expect to have my own desk, even though I had a corner office in Philadelphia. I just did not expect to have to call in each day and ask if I could come to work. Sometimes I was told that I had to leave by 3 because someone needed my desk.

Realizing that my working conditions were not going to improve any time soon, I found a graceful exit. My friends joked, “I hope you get a desk and a chair in your next job.”
When I shared my experiences, many freelancers told me that “at least you got paid”. I posted queries about freelancing experiences on several Internet sites. There was an outpouring of complaints about non-payment and other issues.
Since it was a writer’s list, it was not surprising that the Jerusalem Post was the focus of many complaints. It is one of the largest employers of English speaking writers. Kendall wrote, “The Post owes me 4000 shekels.” Janet told me, “I wrote a story about the new mayor of Raanana and they did not pay.”

The life of a freelancer would not be complete without a run-in with the tax authority. That, and plans to improve the working conditions of freelancers, would be another column.