where is a good place to get a dumb phone in Israel?
is it cheaper to get it in the US?
I am not sure what the difference between flip vs kosher vs dumb phones? The yeshiva requires a dumb phone but did not specify how dumb it needs to be.
Yes a lot cheaper to get it in the US, this is far by one of the best simple phones you can get for a great price which works with all carriers (Or at least golan/hot mobile) and I'm sure the rest as well as it's a t-mobile gsm phone so is Israel's phone carrier's.
Now these phones are usually locked so if you have a T-Mobile account you can have this phone unlocked by telling them you're going out of the country and will like to use another SIM from another country in your phone, but if you don't have T-Mobile you got to figure out another way to have it unlocked or ask a friend of yours to have it unlocked by calling T-Mobile through his account info.
I went ahead and looked through a bunch of them on eBay this is the best possible match I found from the quick search I did, all the other ones I looked at or either broken or triple the price or all damaged.
Check out Samsung gravity text phone and Samsung hotspot from t-mobile #TMobile
https://m.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-gravity-text-phone-and-Samsung-hotspot-from-t-mobile-/253596185522?roken=cUgayN&soutkn=owkQei via @eBay
I would buy this phone just to have a third spare phone like this around the house or to use when going to Israel if needed a basic phone.