Visiting Scientists Telephone Information

Telephone Services

	Calling Cards Institute Numbers Internal Calls(within Israel)On-line Directory
	Overseas Calls Personal Calling Code The Switchboard Telephone Billing Voice Mail

Your telephone number is written on your phone. Your line is open to local incoming/outgoing calls, and incoming international calls.

Calling Cards
There is a standard monthly fee for use of your home phone included in your rent, based on an average consumption. There will be a charge for above average usage. For use when calling outside, calling cards (known locally as "telecards") may be purchased at all post office branches, but are cheaper if purchased at the Cashier's Office in the Stone Building, 1st floor, Room. 107, Sunday - Thursday, 08:30 - 12:30 (Cost: NS 50 and NS 100).

Institute Telephone Numbers
Institute phone numbers that are connected to the switchboard all begin with 934 and are followed by 4 digits, the internal extension.

Internal Calls within Israel
Calls from within the Institute to

within the Institute: dial the 4 digits of the extension.
outside of the Institute: dial the area code + the telephone number.

Calls from off campus to the Institute:

dial 08-934 + the 4 digits of the extension

On-line Directory
The Institute's on-line telephone and email directory is located at http://www.weizmann.ac.il/ph/dir_search.html.

Overseas Calls
For details about making overseas calls from the Institute, refer to overseas calls.

Personal Calling Code
If you are a Visitor or Postdoctoral Fellow receiving monthly payment or a fellowship from the Institute, you may call overseas from one the Institute extensions via a personal code number and get charged at the end of the month. Contact the Personnel department to get your staff member number, and then call the Switchboard (ext. 88) to get a calling code number.

The Switchboard
The central switchboard can be reached internally by dialing ext. 88. Working hours are Sunday - Thursday from 07:00 - 18:30.

Telephone Billing
There is a standard monthly service fee for average use of the phone included in the rent. Over-average usage will be charged, after one warning. (We estimate average monthly consumption of telephone usage to be NIS 100.)

Voice Mail
Please check your voice mail regularly, as we leave important messages on your machine from time to time. There are two systems: one for Europe House and Lunenfeld, and one for the Kipnis apartment complex.