Sjay - I'm a graduating undergraduate applying to do a year of research before graduate school. My program would be at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the project involves mapping how carbon is cycled in organisms in central carbon metabolism. Weizmann has a really nice community of researchers in the field of systems biology, which is the field that I am headed to for grad school in the US. What is your subject at Hebrew University?
While I have never heard of a letter of "information notification", I have heard some different accounts of how Israel notifies it's candidates. My campus Fulbright coordinator thought that Israel typically notifies early to mid-March via email (our school currently has a candidate in Israel), but I saw online that they sometimes notify primarily through snail mail. Although other countries tend to notify Accepted, Alternate, and Rejected candidates simultaneously, I'm starting to wonder if Israel may have sent a message of "information notification" to those accepted and is holding back for the other applicants. Either way, congrats and best wishes that your grant works out for your dissertation research!
Sometimes I wonder if there was some solace in not having these forums to exchange anxieties. At least we can also exchange encouragement. Good luck to everyone!