here is my timeline,
part one application sent to Canada
application sent 3/27/15
application received notice 04/27/15
sponsorship approval 6/26/15
number of days it took from authorization of receipt to sponsorship approval 60
part two (application sent to Israel)
authorization of receipt in Tel Aviv office 8/8/15
esacs in process: 9/8/15
days it took from sponsorship approval to in process: 150
additional documents request 23/10/15
passport request 26/11/15!
notes:
we had a clean application everything was fine after it was sent in thank god,
we did the medical upfront and it had expired they did ask us to do a another one.. so i would suggest doing the medical after you get sponsorship approval because it isn't cheap, and if any problems come up, you know it takes months.. we actually did it 3 times (took us along time to get our application in order due to expired identification :-\
when they asked us to send in additional documents they asked us for the medical, the police certificate from the Israeli police, apparently the one they give you in the police office isn't the right one, but we just did it on-line and they sent it to the Canadian embassy we didn't have to do anything, our original marriage certificate and to pay the right of permanent residence fee they gave us on the note a date that everything had to be in by, two months from the letter and we sent in it within two weeks and exactly one month later we got the passport request
wish all of you good luck
xo