Reply To: Getting around Teudat Zehut in Israel

@zichmich there are other things that affected me by not having a TZ, like recently the electric company offered a discount to anyone who uses less electric, but only with a TZ. It comes up time after time for me and I’m sure others too. Thankfully, today I called my CC company and they have a fake TZ filed for me, so when I try purchase something using my Israeli CC it verifies the TZ bec that’s what’s on file. I managed to sign up to phone service after all but I think that TZ won’t always work unless its verifying with my CC company.

Another solution I found is one of the methods that companies use to verify a TZ. It goes like this: A TZ is made up of 9 numbers. Add up the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th numbers. Now add up the rest of the numbers 2, 4 etc., and multiply by two (only the second set of numbers) .Now add up the sum of the first group to the total of the 2nd group. If the final number is divisible by 10 with no remainder than you have a possible TZ number. If not, then definitely false. Here’s an example of this with made up numbers 033071804. Parentheses mean that the number is in the even sequence and is multiplied by 2.

0+3(6)+3+0+7+1(2)+8+0+4 =30. If the last number were to be anything but a 4 it wouldnt work not 123567890. I hope I was clear enough. Enjoy! (You can also guess randomly as the odds of hitting a possible number is 1/10. Also I think a regular TZ starts with 03 so start the guesses from there.