Yes indeed, you can now park your cell phones...errr, your cars using your cellphones, just like in the rest of Israel.  Eilat has recently joined the nationwide ‘cellular parking' system called PaNGo.  You can now park your car using the mobile phone number *4500 in most of the local authorities that have paid parking arrangements, including Eilat.  The service does not involve a subscription fee and is designed to make it easier on visitors to the city who wish to park in organised car parks by offering a convenient, readily available, and easy parking service using one's mobile phone.  The cost of parking as per the municipal rate is 4 shekels an hour (1 shekel per quarter hour). 

The new service will save the public having to search for sales booths and/or automatic machines (‘madchan') selling parking permits, as well as getting out of their car to purchase them at these points.  From now on drivers can deal with their parking fees from inside their vehicle. 

The national cellular parking service PaNGo, from Milgam Cellular Parking Company, was chosen in a tender put out by the Economics and Finance Company that sets new standards in everything related to electronic parking and making it into a comprehensive service encompassing all of the local authorities that offer organised car parking in Israel.  At this point the service is offered in 34 cities in Israel, with Eilat one of them.

Registration with PaNGo is free and there is no subscription fee.  The cost of parking is based on how long you're parked and is according to the municipal rate where the vehicle is parking.  Each subscriber receives a sticker for the car window showing that the driver is subscribed with the service, so that the municipal patrol can see that they are members and check, using a special unit connected with the PaNGo service, that they have activated the service.  The company adds that the driver can also receive a personal reminder 15 minutes before his paid parking is expired so that he can avoid getting a parking ticket!  Each driver can track the details of his parking/account every month.

The national cellular parking service joins the presently existing parking services which include parking cards, EZ Park, ‘madchan' machines, and others.