Travel ban

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

Braverman asked the Supreme Court to lift the travel ban, arguing it harmed his UK ambassador appointment and Israel’s foreign relations after the Lod court overturned an earlier ruling.

Cabinet secretary Tzachi Braverman seen at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister office in Jerusalem on December 18, 2016.
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

Joseph S. Blatter attends a press conference at the Extraordinary FIFA Executive Committee Meeting at the FIFA headquarters on July 20, 2015.

Ex-FIFA chief Sepp Blatter backs boycott of US World Cup over Trump policies


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

Israel belongs to the Jews - opinion

If we fail to open the gates for them we jeopardize this crucial connection between Diaspora Jewry and Israel. This relationship is being tested.

 THE US DELEGATION takes part in the opening ceremony of the 20th Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem in 2017.