Israel And Ben Gurion COVID-19 Reopening Master Thread

[jose34]

Most importantly, , which makes it look like students will be allowed to renter after Pesach.
Can we get this guaranteed in writing?

Doubt it....

[mguy]

Has anyone been successful getting a "green pass" if not enrolled in Kupat Cholim?

I am trying to help a yeshiva student (US citizen) who got both shots from Magen David Adom. Now is trying to get the green pass from the Ministry of Health website, but it errors. I speculate the problem may be that he is not a member of Kupat Cholim and the website may tie into those systems to get confirmation of vaccination. The website says: "Ministry of Health make use of my personal contact information provided to my HMO insurance to validate my identity with the information that I have entered"

There must be lots of others in the same situation - I heard of lots of foreign-national yeshiva/seminary students getting the vaccine from MADA.

BTW, The website we are trying is https://corona.health.gov.il/en/green-pass/ by providing the passport number. The error is: "Something went wrong with your identification..." We are one week after the second shot.

[PlatinumGuy]

Can we get this guaranteed in writing?

Lol, should the fedex you a handwritten commitment from Bibbi?

[mliebs1457]

Any idea if the VS flight 03/09 will still operate?

[tavster]

LY 'extra care' pilot flight today, where all passengers need to do a quick antigen test right before check in

https://twitter.com/gotomichal/status/1368884373940998147?s=19

[bb_sam]

Currently, that doesn't entitle you to a green passport. What happens with subsequent visits is anyone's guess.

Supposedly they are working on the ability for people who recovered or got vaccinated outside of Israel to obtain a green passport based on an Israeli antibody test, but there's no timeframe as to when that will actually be available.

I am hoping to go again after Pesach, and if nothing changes, I plan to submit a request to exit quarantine as soon as I board the flight.

Given that foreign vaccinations aren't going to get a green passport yet, how do those of us that exit quarantine with a foreign vaccine (and serology test) get into locations that require a green passport?  Meaning, getting into a hotel, mall, gym, etc?

[Happyguy]

which makes it look like students will be allowed to renter after Pesach.

A two week closure of TLV ended up being 6 weeks. Dates are just given to as a deadline to pass the law again.

[Ergel]

My application is in. Something tells me that after this post, the backlog will start to grow again

Declined (lack of documentation) and resubmitted.
As I told some other people to apply last night - vote early and vote often

Application numbers are clearly sequential and my application number is 8356 more than yesterday. The only question is if the numbers are shared with other forms.

[tavster]

Declined (lack of documentation) and resubmitted.
As I told some other people to apply last night - vote early and vote often

Application numbers are clearly sequential and my application number is 8356 more than yesterday. The only question is if the numbers are shared with other forms.

Good Luck!

3.8 million adults vaccinated with both doses, and Pessah vacations coming up (with kids school off a week before) so I'm not too surprised by the volume of requests

[Ergel]

בקשתכם אינה עומדת בקריטריונים המפורטים בתקנות ובפרט אינה משקפת צורך הומניטרי או צורך אישי מיוחד המצדיק מתן אישור ליציאה לטיסה בהתאם לבקשתך.

Got a negative response in 47 minutes
On to the next request

[bigdipper8545]

I by some miracle got onto the United wed night flight. Does anyone know if it will end up getting cancelled any rumors?

[m65]

Weird, seat map looks like there are quite a few empties.

Serious?
Crazy stuff.
Would the seat map show empty seats which were filled by the 3 standby seats?
If they actually left empty seats theyd be crazy.
There were aprox 50 ppl begging to get on, all fom mondays cancelations.
They made a list of all the ppl that had come, based on a first come first serve basis.
They then told security not to let any1 else pass, then they announced 3 names to come up, and told everyobe else sorry we are totally full.

Was anyone here on the flight to let us know if there actually empty seats?

[Mikes@Micro]

This is the new procedure for foreigners to enter:

*רשות האוכלוסין וההגירה: החל ממחר, 8.3.2021, כניסת זרים לישראל תתבצע בכפוף לבקשה שתוגש מבעוד מועד*

בהתאם להחלטת הממשלה מיום 2.3.2021, האחריות על בחינת כניסת זרים לישראל הינה בידי ועדת היתרים בראשות רשות האוכלוסין וההגירה.

במהלך השבועיים הקרובים תינתן עדיפות לכניסת ישראלים, לקראת מועד הבחירות. מסיבה זו, כניסת זרים תאושר בצמצום ובהתאם לנסיבות חריגות.

בקשה לקבלת אישור כניסה עבור  זר לישראל תוגש באמצעות טופס מקוון, *בליווי המסמכים התומכים בבקשה.*

הבקשות תיבחנה בהתאם *לקריטריונים שנקבעו בהחלטת הממשלה*:
1. צורך חיוני ליחסי החוץ של ישראל או מטעמי ביטחון המדינה.
2. ספורטאי מקצועי, לצורך השתתפות בתחרות ומלווהו, הנדרש לתחרות.
3. מי שבידו אשרת עולה או זכויות עולה ושלא ניתן לדחות את עלייתו.
4. עובד זר הנחוץ לצורך שמירה על רציפות תפקודית.
5. בן זוג או הורה לאזרח או תושב ישראלי, המבקש להכנס לצורך אחד הטעמים המפורטים באתר.
6. לצורך הומניטרי או אישי מיוחד, המחייב כניסה מידית לישראל.

הבקשות תיבחנה על ידי חברי הוועדה, ביחד עם המסמכים הנלווים אליהן ובהתאם למכלול הנתונים תתקבל החלטה.

מענה לבקשות יינתן באמצעות המייל שסיפקו הפונים.

להלן קישור לקריטריונים המפורטים ול טופס הגשת בקשה:
https://go.gov.il/exceptions_corona


Most importantly, , which makes it look like students will be allowed to renter after Pesach.

Chaim CVchessed writes that it will likely be extended....

[bigdipper8545]

A united plane is in Israel showing on flight radar leaving tnt (flight #ua2792) I guess that means they are flying an emty plane. So does that mean wed nights flight will get cancelled to? They are not going to park a plane in Ben Gurion for 2 days? Can someone who knows these things let me know if this flight will be cancelled I need to rebook on another airline if so. Thanks!

[Ploni3]

I by some miracle got onto the United wed night flight. Does anyone know if it will end up getting cancelled any rumors?

which direction?

[Ergel]

Got a negative response in 47 minutes
On to the next request

Now trying with a contact who knows the head of the exceptions committee, but he is not hopeful. They aren't even considering grandparent's humanitarian, let alone great grandparents

[ExGingi]

Got a negative response in 47 minutes
On to the next request

Try to write to Tzofiya.King@mfa.gov.il to appeal. When I did that she responded to me that I should reapply and it would be approved, it didn't work out due to confusion with the application numbers (possibly on my behalf, a little hard doing everything of a phone and searching the GMail app).

[ExGingi]

Looks like flights to ADD might be coming soon.

https://twitter.com/gotomichal/status/1368895645705207808

[Ergel]

And also submitted a third application. less than two hours after the second - 2503 applications in between

[Ergel]

Try to write to Tzofiya.King@mfa.gov.il to appeal. When I did that she responded to me that I should reapply and it would be approved, it didn't work out due to confusion with the application numbers (possibly on my behalf, a little hard doing everything of a phone and searching the GMail app).

Thanks. Sent email, will report back