How can I use my phone in Israel and ensure my text messages work?

If you want to do call forwarding, that's no problem. You can forward it. Call forwarding is call forwarding, but not text.

Yes, you can come to the Borough Park location.

We do have a service SIM card. It's a month of service, $20. It's from a company called 019 Mobile. Pretty much once you get to Israel, you put the SIM card into the phone and then it gives you an Israeli number and it gives you a U.S. number for people to contact you.

You're going to be getting a new number, so you're going to get one Israeli number and one U.S. number.

We don't have, like, a text message forwarding service.