Filipino Food, Shops & Community in Israel (2026 Guide)

Filipinos make up one of the largest Asian communities in Israel — tens of thousands of people, the great majority working as caregivers for the elderly and people with disabilities. Spread across Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Netanya and dozens of smaller towns, the community is held together less by neighbourhoods than by a network of shops, services and organisations that make life here feel a little closer to home.

This guide is not a “best restaurants” ranking — Israel has a huge Filipino population but very few dedicated Filipino restaurants. What the community actually relies on is something more practical: the grocery and sari-sari shops that stock Filipino ingredients, the remittance services used to send money back to family every month, and the organisations and groups that offer support, information and a sense of belonging. Here is where Filipinos in Israel find home. For the wider picture of Asian dining in Israel see our hub guide to the best Asian restaurants in Israel, and for ingredient shopping in general our guide to Asian supermarkets in Israel.

Filipino & Asian grocery shops

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These are the shops where you can find rice, noodles, sauces, snacks, frozen goods and the everyday Filipino products that the big Israeli supermarkets don’t carry. A few are Filipino-specific; others are broader Asian groceries that keep a solid Filipino section.

Allin’s Kabayan

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A dedicated Filipino grocery store on Herzl Street in Ramat Gan, in the heart of one of the country’s busiest Filipino areas. It is well regarded by the community, with strong ratings on both Google Maps and easy. Open daily including Friday and Saturday, which makes it convenient for caregivers who only get time off at the weekend.

Manila Shop Netanya

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A Filipino and Asian grocery shop on Sderot Hayim Weizman in Netanya, another city with a large Filipino community. It carries a wide range of Filipino and Asian products and has built up a strong reputation across nearly 170 reviews. Open seven days a week with long hours, including weekends.

Balagan Eastwest Food

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A long-running Asian grocery on Agripas Street in Jerusalem, near the Mahane Yehuda market. It stocks an extremely wide range of products for Japanese, Thai, Indian, Filipino, Korean and Chinese cooking, plus fresh Asian vegetables — a reliable stop for Filipinos in Jerusalem who can’t find what they need elsewhere.

My Asia Haifa

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An Asian supermarket on Shmaryahu Levin Street in Haifa, carrying Filipino, Indian, Thai, Korean and Japanese products as well as kitchenware and Asian utensils. It offers free home delivery, which is especially useful for caregivers in the Haifa area who can’t easily get to a shop.

Mundo Market

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Billed as the biggest Asian supermarket in Israel, with more than 1,200 imported products from across Asia. The flagship is at the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station, with newer branches including Netanya as the chain expands nationwide. Its Filipino range sits alongside products from the rest of Asia, so it works as a one-stop shop.

East and West Asian Stores

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An Asian grocery chain that started as a small shop in Tel Aviv’s Carmel Market serving Thai and Filipino workers, and has since grown to multiple locations. It keeps a wide variety of Asian products, including Filipino goods, and remains one of the most established names for Asian groceries in Israel.

Sending money home

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Remittances are central to Filipino life abroad, and Israel has a dense market of services competing to move money to the Philippines. Fees and exchange rates change constantly and vary by amount and payout method, so it is always worth comparing a few before you send — the entries below describe what each service offers rather than quoting rates.

Monox Philippines by 019

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A remittance service built specifically for transfers from Israel to the Philippines, run through an app. It advertises fast, secured transfers with options for cash pickup, bank transfer and GCash — covering the main ways families back home prefer to receive money.

MoneyLowCost

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A money transfer service focused on Israel-to-Philippines transfers, aimed squarely at Filipino workers. Its distinctive feature is an offer of 20-day interest-free credit for sending money — useful when payday and the family’s needs don’t line up.

GMT — Global Money Transfer

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An Israeli money transfer company that serves foreign workers across communities. For the Philippines it partners with Cebuana Lhuillier, which has thousands of pickup branches, making cash collection easy almost anywhere in the country. It also serves Thai, Indian, Chinese and Nepali workers.

MoneySend

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A money transfer service that sends from Israel to more than 90 countries, including the Philippines, via credit card and without needing to visit a branch. A straightforward option if you prefer to send online rather than queue at an agent.

Rewire by Remitly

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A digital money transfer app covering more than 130 countries and widely used by Filipino and Thai workers in Israel. As an app-based service it lets you send money home directly from your phone, on your own schedule.

Western Union Israel

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The global Western Union network, with agent locations across Israel including Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa — and, separately, at Israel Post branches nationwide. It remains a familiar fallback for sending cash that can be picked up quickly almost anywhere in the Philippines.

Community & support

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Beyond shops and services, the Filipino community in Israel runs on its organisations and networks — for advocacy, for information, for celebrating together, and for help when something goes wrong.

Federation of Filipino Communities in Israel

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The umbrella organisation for Filipino associations and groups across Israel, founded in 2002 and based in Tel Aviv. It coordinates between the many regional and interest-based Filipino groups and acts as a point of contact for community-wide matters.

Filipinos Working and Living in Israel

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A major Facebook community group for Filipino workers and residents in Israel. It is one of the most active spaces for job listings, community support and day-to-day information sharing — often the first place people turn with a question about life or work here.

Feel Thai Massage by Ronalyn

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A professional massage practice in Haifa run by Ronalyn, a Filipino-Thai therapist, and highly rated on TripAdvisor. It is one of the visible Filipino-run service businesses in the north, and a reminder that the community’s footprint in Israel goes beyond caregiving.

Tourismo Filipino

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A travel agency, based in Manila and Israeli-owned, that has specialised in trips to the Philippines since 2010 — private and group tours, island-hopping, jeep safaris and family packages. It is licensed by the Philippine Department of Tourism, and a useful contact for anyone planning a trip home or a holiday in the islands.

Filipino food spots

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Israel’s Filipino restaurant scene is genuinely small — most Filipino cooking here happens at home, with ingredients from the shops above, or at community gatherings. We have not been able to verify a standalone Filipino restaurant worth listing in the directory. If you know of one — a canteen, a home kitchen, a weekend pop-up — please tell us, and we will check it and add it. In the meantime, the grocery shops above are the most reliable route to Filipino flavours in Israel.