The quota of volunteering hours in the SHC depends on the amount of tuition that the student is entitled to receive from the administration for immigrant students. In general, the amount of hours is between 120-200 hours. For example, a student studying a 3-year bachelor's degree course and entitled to 300% tuition, will do 120 hours Sh.K. A student in a 4-year bachelor's degree course and entitled to 400% tuition, is required to complete 200 hours. Each student must receive confirmation of the scope of hours of study from the study center in the district.

No. Registration alone does not guarantee receiving the tuition scholarship. Eligibility for assistance is conditional upon submitting an application for each academic year and, at the same time, meeting the requirement of completing all the volunteer Shahak hours the student is obligated to perform, within the required timeframe.

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No. Shahak volunteer work can only be carried out within frameworks recognized by the Minhal HaStudentim. Each year, organizations and volunteer frameworks are selected, and you may choose only from this list.

Of course it is. If things don't work out after the introductory meeting, you can email your Shahak coordinator and ask for a referral for the additional frameworks you listed on the rating form.

Yes. Each year you must be reassigned (send the Shahak coordinator a signed placement form), even if you choose to continue in the same framework you volunteered in last year, and you must also renew your tuition scholarship application.

• Pregnant women, upon showing a medical certificate.

• Parents, based on the presentation of an ID.

• People with personal / medical / family difficulties, based on the opinion of a social worker from the Minhal HaStudentim.

• Students eligible for assistance of up to 250% tuition (Such as Practical Engineers, Masters students).

• Students who hold an Active Reserve Duty (Miluim) certificate, as well as students serving in the reserves during the volunteer year, are entitled to a special exemption in Shahak. For more details, please contact your Shahak coordinator.

Students who do not fulfill the volunteer requirement as required will not be entitled to full tuition funding for their degree and will not be eligible to receive further assistance from the Minhal HaStudentim in the future.

Students exempt from the Shahak requirement will be entitled to receive the full amount of assistance according to their study track.

If you have completed your studies or are currently on a study break, please update us in order to avoid affecting your eligibility for tuition assistance.

You are entitled to receive up to 200% of tuition funding from the Minhal HaStudentim and are therefore exempt from Shahak. If you wish to request additional tuition funding for further studies (for example, a master’s degree), you will be required to complete Shahak according to the total amount of assistance you receive from the Minhal HaStudentim.

If your degree program is 4 years (for example, engineering) and you receive funding from the Minhal HaStudentim for years 2, 3, and 4 (300% tuition), you will be required to complete Shahak.

If the framework in which you are volunteering appears on the Shahak portal and is recognized by the Minhal HaStudentim as a Shahak framework, your volunteer hours can be counted toward the Shahak requirement, subject to approval at the beginning of the year.

If the framework is not recognized by the Minhal HaStudentim, the volunteer hours cannot be counted.