Travel ban

Sages, synagogues, and seaside: Discovering Jewish history along the French Riviera

When identifying ourselves, we did not hide the fact that we are Israeli, and reactions were polite. I consider visiting places of Jewish interest a way of supporting the local community.

Chateau D'if, viewed from Marseille.
Cabinet secretary Tzachi Braverman seen at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister office in Jerusalem on December 18, 2016.

Supreme Court rejects Braverman's appeal, keeps travel ban in place over ‘midnight meeting’ probe

Prime Minister's Office Chief of Staff Tzachi Braverman pictured attending a funeral in Modi'in, February 17, 2026; illustrative.

Braverman asks Supreme Court to lift travel ban, argues diplomatic post, foreign relations at stake

Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Tzachi Braverman arrives to the courtroom at the Distrcit court in Tel Aviv, before the start of the testimony of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the trial against him, December 18, 2024.

Court bars Netanyahu's chief-of-staff's departure for UK envoy post, reinstates restrictions


COVID-19: Israel reopens to jabbed tourists from non-red countries, US still out

The new rules are set to come into effect on Sunday, but the US, UK remain on the red list.

With more countries being declared ‘red,’ travelers converge on Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday.

More aid for El Al Airlines amid COVID travel bans

Israel’s flag carrier will receive tens of millions of dollars from the state and El Al’s controlling shareholders.

The first El Al flight from Israel to the United Arab Emirates

Diaspora Jews should at least be let into Israel - opinion

125 years later, Jews around the world are once again in distress, this time, because the state that Herzl helped create is closed off to them.

 PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett addresses a memorial ceremony marking 107 years since the death of Theodor Herzl, held on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem in June.

Israel is wrong to close its borders to Diaspora Jews - opinion

Israeli taxpayer money goes to Jews around the world because we understand that their fortitude, safety and Jewish identity are important not just for them, but also for us.

 How much longer will Israel remain closed to the Diaspora?

Diaspora Jews’ misplaced anger at Israel’s no-entry policy - opinion

Viruses don’t engage in discrimination. No, it’s politicians who do that.

  Travelers seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 22, 2021.

Simcha Rothman on COVID-19 closure: Let the Jews back in first

POLITICIAL AFFAIRS: The Religious Zionist Party’s Simcha Rothman aims to represent Anglos in the Knesset, but his approach is controversial.

 MK SIMCHA ROTHMAN: It’s not racism. Israel is the home of the Jewish people. You can’t leave people out of their home.

COVID-19 suspends the implicit Israel-Diaspora covenant - opinion

The complications of the COVID-19 pandemic have temporarily suspended this once iron-clad contract.

 THE OLD CITY’S Jaffa Gate – silence and emptiness.

COVID-19 travel ban to red countries to be lifted for some dual citizens

Grandparents will also be able to get approval for travel to grandchildren’s lifecycle events, for the first time since start of the pandemic.

 AN EMPTY arrival hall at Ben-Gurion Airport does not bode well for ‘olim.’

COVID-19 cabinet approves removing most countries from no-fly list

Cabinet also affirms new outline for coronavirus in schools.

Travelers seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 22, 2021.

Letters to the Editor December 29, 2021: See no evil

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters