hey
Glad to help since I was in similar situation few months ago All requested regarding a longer stay should be applied at the Holland embassy in Tel Aviv, I think in Abba Hillel street, you can find it on google.. Take into consideration that your request mostly won't be approved unless you have a very but a very good reason. Me for example, wanted to stay in Holland for 3 months and after to go to France. I had with we letters from my employee in Israel saying I am coming back for work and only going for training period, also letters from the bank showing my monthly income and at least 10K Euro in the account, also letters from my employee in France and Amsterdam regarding my training period there with the fact that I will not have to spent even one euro because they take care of everything and my request was turn down so I wish you success. Any way, you can rent an apartment as a tourist, you should know that apartments are rented almost only by real estate agents and they take big commission at least one month of commission so if for example you found an apartment for period of three months for 400E you have to pay him 1200E for 3 months rent in advance and also 430E commission+tax and also deposit which is about 800E Also finding an apartment in Holland is very difficult, they almost have no new apartments and very big part of the apartments are reserved for people with financial difficulties so you should look for one before you come of contact a real estate agent from here. I currently live in Haarlem which is a small city, the capital of the province of noord holland. its located 20 Km from Amsterdam and has train almost 10 minutes. I pay 400E per month for a 25 square meter studio with private facilities. The rent include gas, water, cables, wireless Internet, electricity, water heating, and apartment heating The apartment is located in the city center good luck
