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


Will Israel ban travel to the United States due to Omicron fears?

The Health Ministry has set new criteria for determining if a country is red.

A passenger at Ben Gurion Airport

Italy tops Israeli tourists' searches since Omicron

22% of site traffic from Israel in recent weeks has been directed towards information on traveling to Italy, with the US in second place with 19% of searches.

People walk along the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping mall in Milan

Israel's Bennett pushes tourism industry assistance package

The joint assistance package comes amid new restrictions and worries regarding the novel Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Tourists look at a mobile phone as they stand at an observation point overlooking the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem's Old City

Israel’s identity as a Jewish state is in danger - opinion

Banning Jews who are not Israeli citizens from entering the country is unacceptable since a true Jewish State should not turn away fellow Jews at its doorstep.

 A SIGN at Ben-Gurion Airport directs passengers to the COVID-19 testing area.

Bennett ‘deeply regrets pain’ of Diaspora Jews due to Israel’s closed borders

Comments come against the background of severe difficulties for foreign Jews to see Israeli relatives, abusive behavior by Population and Immigration Authority towards travelers.

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a cabinet meeting on November 14, 2021

Israel's COVID-19 travel restrictions make no sense - comment

TRAVEL ADVISER: Lockdowns and restrictions on personal travel are not natural human states. That is why jail sentences are a punishment for those that do wrong.

 TRAVELERS AT Ben-Gurion Airport this week.

Bennett's family to fly abroad for vacation despite new COVID variant

The Bennett family vacation, which does not include the Prime Minister, comes days after Bennett discouraged people from traveling abroad due to the Omicron variant.

 Naftali Bennett, leader of the Bayit Yehudi party and his wife Gilat make their way to the ballot box to cast a vote in the Israeli general elections on Tuesday, January 22, 2012 Raanana

UN condemns countries for placing travel restrictions against Africa

Secretary-General António Guterres: “The people of Africa cannot be blamed for the immorally low level of vaccinations available in Africa.

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL Antonio Guterres attends a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 24.

COVID Omicron variant: How to stay safe if you have to travel

Sonovia’s SonoMask proven more than 99% effective against all previous variants. Company expects it to work against Omicron, too. 

 Sonovia's SonoMask

Omicron COVID variant: Countries place travel restrictions on Africa

South Africa said that imposing restrictions on travelers from the country because of a newly identified COVID-19 variant Omicron was unjustified.

 People wait in front of an "Appointment Desk" for quarantine and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test appointments inside Schiphol Airport, after Dutch health authorities said that 61 people who arrived in Amsterdam on flights from South Africa tested positive for COVID-19, in Amsterdam, Netherlands