I will first introduce myself for a moment.

I am a native Belgian who has left his country in order to realise his big dream: seeing the world, discovering new countries and cultures. I have lived in Ireland for nearly 3 years and travelled all around Europe, but I feel ready to leave Europe for a while now. The Middle East has always fascinated me on all fronts, and therefor I hope to emigrate to the Middle East for 2 or 3 years, preferably Israel or Turkey as these countries have fascinated me a lot for many years.

Why Israel? It has some of the oldest cities on earth and is the birthplace of some of the oldest cultures on earth. This makes it an incredibly diverse and historically unique country. Also, the fact that it's very diverse in terms of scenery attracts me: mountains, sea, desert, cities, ... all in 1 country.

Now the tricky part is working permits. I cannot make aliya as I am not religious. I am not Jewish but I have a great interest in Islam and Judaisme, and this motivates me as well for wanting to move to Turkey or Israel. However, working permits for foreigners who are not jewish, are hard to get. A few times a company showed interest but then they decided not to make an offer because of the permit issues.

I now have two companies who are positive they can arrange the permit, and according to http://gov.il/ hotel workers can get working permits more easily. Because of the two interested companies and because in this time of the year (just before summer season) hotels recruit a lot of people, I am normally going to visit Israel soon for a jobhunting trip. The trip will include 10 to 12 days of spreading my CV around hotels, employment agencies, ... hoping to have a job before the end of that time.

Now a few questions:

- does anyone know any company that is reputated for helping foreigners to arrange a working permit? I hope to do as many interviews as I can, but of course the company must be willing to secure the permit or at least try to do that.
- does anyone know if hotels publically advertise their vacancies? Or am I better off spreading my CV in the hotels once I have arrived in Israel?

And then the hardest question:
- how realistic do you think it is to find a job within the 2 weeks and secure a working permit? Is my idea of coming to Israel a waste of money, or do I have reasons to be optimistic that I can secure the job and permit?

I have no specific degrees or so, however I speak 4 languages (Dutch, English, French, German) which may be an asset for hotels and companies with international visitors/customers?

Any advise is welcome.

I think you should talk to someone in the embassy or someone official to get this kind of info because it changes every time, and for every job, and how long you are going to stay so it depends. I dont think you can so easy find a job this way (cv) but there is all kind of programs to work or study so it could be better to check these things also before.
Every job that wants to hire foreign workers needs to get a permit, and they have to be registered so I dont
think people will take the chance because there is heavy fines on it.