Bicycle country Business culture in Israel

My passion it bicycling and making bicycle tours but I need all so a proper job to support my passion. I was until last Thursday working in an Israeli company, specializing in Export to their company in Nigeria. The company is runned by Israelis which already make it a different company than working in and European or American company. Lot of ballagan All the time, screaming and problems. My last day was Thursday where the owner told me that the projects we were working with, my college and I was getting less and less, where the forecast a few months ago had been uppersite. So they had so cut expenses and my position as well, due to I was the last one arriving to the company. To be honest I was not sad, I would have walked myself. My mentality is not for the screaming and always problems, especially when I have been use to be on my own and operate your own business in San Francisco.

I owner of the company gave me 2 choice either I could continue working for the rest of the months and get a 4 weeks payment or stop immertaly and with samme conditions. I agreed to the first one, due to I always like to Finnish my jobs in a professional way. But after some thoughts and I felt used, just being there for a quite short time. So I e-mailed the boss and told him my plan. I am not setting my foot again in the company but will come in and receive my last paycheck and hand over information of the cases I was working with to the college. The next day I call to have it confirmed that my pay check would be there and he agreed. It was with split feelings I went in to the company, but I felt used and was tired of being threaded that way, just because I am a new immigrant. Before I walked in I knew that there was going to be problems with the payment and my last check and ofcourse I was right. I was presented with an amount that was not correct and an excuse that because of my status and my contract in Hebrew than I only got a 10% increase in salary after the first 3 months. My first meeting with the owner at our first meeting was a base salary of NIS 5.000,- for the first 3 months as the try period and than a 50% increase thereafter. We need agreed about the 10% and it was never written down anywhere. I have been in business for nearly 10 years and have heard before how Israelis will try to cheat you and what a surprise it happen again. Israelis have also a reputation of doing bad business and it is true. Do never trust anything here if it is not written down and make sure that you have a translation in English if you do not read Hebrew. I learned my lesson, it is better to walk away with some dignity instead of staying and feeling bad.