Its a ban to leave the country.
I was asking.
I dont think they would to it on 500 shekel...
AFAIR it has recently been discontinued on small sums, which is why I didn't mention it.
It happens to be that I, personaly am/was opposed to that. It was more or less a GOOD thing.
It used to be that preRH, many deadbeats from certain communities would find a way to pay their small debts that they had been derilict in paying, as even a small debt of a couple of 1000 would keep them from leaving the country.
I know a guy who's tenant skipped rent for about six months and then left, he just went to BD, got a heter arkaos, went to court got a tzav Ikul, and whala... just before RH, all the rent got paid...
Pre-summer would also have people paying their debt so that they could go on vacation...
Now, there's zero leverage to make people pay small debts that are too small for the whole Hotzah Lapoel proccess.