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Link to form that needs to be filled out within 48 hours of flight to Israel

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

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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #720 on: January 26, 2021, 04:24:05 PM »
I just have a strong feeling the ban will be extended

Unfortunately seems like a possibility according to this article where health officials are saying it should be closed for a month:

https://hamodia.com/2021/01/25/health-official-ben-gurion-airport-must-stay-closed-month/

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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #721 on: January 26, 2021, 04:43:01 PM »
Unfortunately seems like a possibility according to this article where health officials are saying it should be closed for a month:

https://hamodia.com/2021/01/25/health-official-ben-gurion-airport-must-stay-closed-month/
What does hamodia say that wasn’t quoted here yet?

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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #722 on: January 26, 2021, 04:51:40 PM »
Unfortunately seems like a possibility according to this article where health officials are saying it should be closed for a month:

https://hamodia.com/2021/01/25/health-official-ben-gurion-airport-must-stay-closed-month/
The health officials are definitely calling for it but we're doubting it will materialize. You never know though.
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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #723 on: January 27, 2021, 12:46:15 AM »
FTFY
Sorry to burst your hate fest, but it looks like the plan(e) is taking shape

https://twitter.com/lielkyzer/status/1354303050207416320

They’re discussing creating a backdoor, which means it will be easier to keep the airport closed longer
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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #724 on: January 27, 2021, 01:18:17 AM »
Sorry to burst your hate fest, but it looks like the plan(e) is taking shape

https://twitter.com/lielkyzer/status/1354303050207416320

They’re discussing creating a backdoor, which means it will be easier to keep the airport closed longer
>:( >:(

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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #725 on: January 27, 2021, 04:38:12 AM »
Maybe. The government is discussing that. You're still back to the same problem of having to enforce the quarantine somehow.

https://twitter.com/ItayBlumental/status/1354360542085992452?s=19

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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #726 on: January 27, 2021, 07:58:07 AM »
Sorry to burst your hate fest, but it looks like the plan(e) is taking shape

https://twitter.com/lielkyzer/status/1354303050207416320


Again, if you read the details you'll realize how addicted they are to creating fake news (at least headlines). Does anyone really believe that there won't be 67 passengers PER DAY each way? This is NOT a subsidy, at most it's a backstop, yet even in the detailed articles about this they talk about a hypothetical of one single passenger in a flight.

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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #727 on: January 27, 2021, 08:13:04 AM »
OTOH

https://twitter.com/itayblumental/status/1354416442716917764

I would imagine that such a closure might be disallowed if brought in front of the Israeli supreme court. Though I am not sure if they consider it a civil right also to enter the country, or just to leave.
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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #728 on: January 27, 2021, 08:26:49 AM »



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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #729 on: January 27, 2021, 11:38:35 AM »
i see united are still selling flights leaving israel jan 30 onwards. does that mean they are taking passengers on the return ?

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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #730 on: January 27, 2021, 11:58:02 AM »
The policy and enforcement thereof is limited by the infamous "חוק יסוד כבוד האדם וחרותו" which guarantees the freedom to leave the country. So they implemented it by temporarily suspending the commercial aviation licenses of Israeli airlines, and disallowing foreign inbound commercial passenger flights. Note that they are barring entry on the land borders, can't bar exit using the land borders.

I am presuming that they would have rather gone with the Australian model of strict inbound and outbound capacity (and authority) control, along with mandatory passenger paid hotel quarantine on arrival, but they can't make that work within the existing legal framework.
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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #731 on: January 27, 2021, 12:08:10 PM »
Note that they are barring entry on the land borders, can't bar exit using the land borders.
are u sure about that?
i can just show up at a land border and they will let me leave?

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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #732 on: January 27, 2021, 12:09:31 PM »
OTOH

I would imagine that such a closure might be disallowed if brought in front of the Israeli supreme court. Though I am not sure if they consider it a civil right also to enter the country, or just to leave.
The land borders were sealed from March until November. And even now you can only come in and not go out. The court couldn’t care less.
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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #733 on: January 27, 2021, 12:12:00 PM »
are u sure about that?
i can just show up at a land border and they will let me leave?
No
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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #734 on: January 27, 2021, 12:19:48 PM »
are u sure about that?
i can just show up at a land border and they will let me leave?

I am only writing based on what I read regarding the airport shut down and seeing the language regarding the land border closing. What they actually do is beyond me.
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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #735 on: January 27, 2021, 12:20:20 PM »
No
u argue on @ExGingi ???
thats almost as bad as arguing with the belzer rebbe 😜

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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #736 on: January 27, 2021, 12:20:51 PM »
I am only writing based on what I read regarding the airport shut down and seeing the language regarding the land border closing. What they actually do is beyond me.
what they actually do is all i care about

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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #737 on: January 27, 2021, 12:22:36 PM »
what they actually do is all i care about

Apparently, @PlatinumGuy is correct. Though there has been a petition against it in court. I didn't research the outcome thereof.

https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001338957
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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #738 on: January 27, 2021, 12:25:16 PM »
Apparently, @PlatinumGuy is correct. Though there has been a petition against it in court. I didn't research the outcome thereof.

https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001338957
thats an old article, the way things move these days it might as well have been written לפני קום המדינה

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Re: ISRAEL AIRPORT CLOSING ON MONDAY!
« Reply #739 on: January 27, 2021, 12:39:56 PM »
thats an old article, the way things move these days it might as well have been written לפני קום המדינה

Here's a later article that seems to indicate that the petition was denied. Though based on the article it seems like they petitioned for two way traffic. Unless the Egyptians and Jordanians deny entry, I doubt whether a rule to bar exit from the Israeli side would stand in court.

https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001350750
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