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Accordingly, the FINAL criteria For entering Israel are as follows - you must meet ONE of these conditions in order to enter Israel:

1. Vaccinated within 180 days of the trip with either a second vaccine or a booster and it must be at least 14 days after the shot.

2. Recovered within 180 days of the trip with DIGITAL proof of a positive PCR result and more than 11 days have passed since the positive result. This type of proof only exists in the EU. The UK will likely have it as well.

3. Recovered anytime – even more than 180 days before the trip - with DIGITAL proof of positive PCR result AND vaccinated with at least one dose within 180 days of the trip. Again at the moment the digital proof only exists in the EU and possibly the UK shortly.

Your vaccination or recovery CANNOT expire while in Israel, which means you may not be in Israel more than 180 days after your vaccine or recovery have expired.

CONSEQUENCES FOR VIOLATING THE TERMS OF ENTRY: VIOLATION OF ANY OF THE ABOVE CRITERIA CAN MEAN SANCTIONS INCLUDING BARRING YOUR ENTRY TO ISRAEL FOR 5 YEARS.

Link to pay for the Covid test that you'll take upon arrival in TLV

Author Topic: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread  (Read 832119 times)

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6080 on: January 20, 2022, 06:30:27 AM »
News-Medical.Net: Transmission of Omicron in a quarantine hotel between two vaccinated individuals across a corridor.
https://www.news-medical.net/post.aspx?id=14d62bdc-5818-42be-9b6e-9ed91c12ed71

PlatinumGuy already mentioned this a while back and it’s been reported from quarantine hotels in both NZ and HK. Not sure if this is a new report or another article about the previously reported HK case. I don’t remember if the previous HK report mentioned vaccination status.

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6081 on: January 20, 2022, 07:55:27 AM »
Does testing have to be done by lab recognized in Israel? Traveling with a Doctor, can he give me rapid test and sign off on his letterhead and use it to leave Israel?

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6082 on: January 20, 2022, 08:20:36 AM »
Does testing have to be done by lab recognized in Israel? Traveling with a Doctor, can he give me rapid test and sign off on his letterhead and use it to leave Israel?
Last I checked, you need a PCR test to enter the airport terminal.

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6083 on: January 20, 2022, 08:37:00 AM »
Last I checked, you need a PCR test to enter the airport terminal.
Not with a Green Pass.
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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6084 on: January 20, 2022, 12:52:44 PM »
Is it true that if you are going to Israel and have not had the booster shot, you can do a serology test in the airport and once that comes back positive you can get a month green pass and exit quarantine?
You can't go to Israel if you don't have a shot within the last 6 months or Israeli passport
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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6085 on: January 20, 2022, 03:02:44 PM »
Last I checked, you need a PCR test to enter the airport terminal.
a CDC vaccine card works as well to enter airport. IME last week

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6086 on: January 20, 2022, 05:59:23 PM »
Last I checked, you need a PCR test to enter the airport terminal.
antigen worked for me

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6087 on: January 20, 2022, 06:48:09 PM »
My brother is (hopefully) making his first bris on Wednesday. Is there any hope to get my father a permit to come in for it?
He got two doses in March, and tested positive on January 14. He'd like to arrive in Israel Monday or Tuesday (Jan 24/25)?
Any hope, and if yes, how?

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6088 on: January 20, 2022, 08:34:41 PM »
My brother is (hopefully) making his first bris on Wednesday. Is there any hope to get my father a permit to come in for it?
He got two doses in March, and tested positive on January 14. He'd like to arrive in Israel Monday or Tuesday (Jan 24/25)?
Any hope, and if yes, how?

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6089 on: January 21, 2022, 03:40:44 AM »
My brother is (hopefully) making his first bris on Wednesday. Is there any hope to get my father a permit to come in for it?
He got two doses in March, and tested positive on January 14. He'd like to arrive in Israel Monday or Tuesday (Jan 24/25)?
Any hope, and if yes, how?
Mazal tov!
Apply for a permit. There's certainly a chance.

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6090 on: January 21, 2022, 09:06:19 AM »
Does anyone know how you can go to Israel for under 72 hours. My husband is in Israel now and it took four days for his PCR from the airport to come back. They are currently experiencing a backlog. If he had had to leave after three days he would not have been able to because technically he was still in bidud. We would be coming back for my son’s engagement party. I know there is dispensation for weddings but I don’t think for engagements.

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6091 on: January 21, 2022, 09:13:41 AM »
Does anyone know how you can go to Israel for under 72 hours. My husband is in Israel now and it took four days for his PCR from the airport to come back. They are currently experiencing a backlog. If he had had to leave after three days he would not have been able to because technically he was still in bidud. We would be coming back for my son’s engagement party. I know there is dispensation for weddings but I don’t think for engagements.

Mazal Tov, maybe someone here knows of paid/private PCR options that turn around much quicker even nowadays.
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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6092 on: January 21, 2022, 09:30:33 AM »
AIDG is 24 hrs

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6093 on: January 21, 2022, 10:30:29 AM »
Does anyone know how you can go to Israel for under 72 hours. My husband is in Israel now and it took four days for his PCR from the airport to come back. They are currently experiencing a backlog. If he had had to leave after three days he would not have been able to because technically he was still in bidud. We would be coming back for my son’s engagement party. I know there is dispensation for weddings but I don’t think for engagements.

DW got a text message that she's released from Bidud (isn't it anyways the shorter of 24 hours or getting negative PCR?) quite a while before she received test results.

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קיבלת תוצאה שלילית לבדיקת PCR שעשית או שעברו 24 שעות מכניסתך לישראל, קיבלת פטור מבידוד.

מועד סיום הבידוד עודכן בתאריך 18/01/2022 10:26.

קיצור זה מתייחס לבידוד בעקבות חזרתך מחו"ל בתאריך 17/01/2022.

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6094 on: January 21, 2022, 12:28:49 PM »
Does anyone know how you can go to Israel for under 72 hours. My husband is in Israel now and it took four days for his PCR from the airport to come back. They are currently experiencing a backlog. If he had had to leave after three days he would not have been able to because technically he was still in bidud. We would be coming back for my son’s engagement party. I know there is dispensation for weddings but I don’t think for engagements.

If you're vaccinated, the quarantine on arrival is capped at 24h even if the test results don't come back.
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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6095 on: January 22, 2022, 10:53:54 AM »
That’s what we thought too. Is it only if you are vaccinated in Israel? Because his email said he is in bidud until 1/30

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6096 on: January 23, 2022, 12:02:09 PM »
Is Israel accepting a Rapid PCR (like an ID-NOW or Accula) as a 72 hr PCR or is this treated as a test that needs to be done within 24 hours?

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6097 on: January 23, 2022, 07:53:00 PM »
Time sensitive question, if a vaccinated Israeli is in America for less than 72 hours, does he need a pcr to get on a plane back to Israel?

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6098 on: January 23, 2022, 08:26:27 PM »
Time sensitive question, if a vaccinated Israeli is in America for less than 72 hours, does he need a pcr to get on a plane back to Israel?

No - very clearly listed on the website.   First bullet point of the people exempted.

https://corona.health.gov.il/en/abroad/arriving-by-air/

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Re: Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread
« Reply #6099 on: January 23, 2022, 10:25:03 PM »
I believe there is an exemption for the pre departure covid test (for entry into Israel) for those recovered in the previous 90 days. Is this something I need to apply for, or can I simply show up to the airport with a positive PCR within the last 90 days?