Travel ban

Rep. Randy Fine’s incendiary comments on Muslims alarm many Jews, backed by pro-Israel right

The Florida Republican ignited a new round of controversy with a series of remarks about Palestinians and “mainstream Muslims” that his critics say are not just provocative but amount to “genocidal.”

REP. RANDY Fine, former gambling executive, won a special election in a deep-red district on Florida’s northeast coast.
US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 10, 2025.

Trump bars Palestinians from entering US on PA-issued travel docs

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem picutred at a cabinet meeting in the White House, December 2, 2025.

US widens travel ban to more than 30 countries, Noem says

Migrants from Bangladesh hand over their passports to a Panamanian official after arriving to the migrant reception center, in the village of Lajas Blancas, Darien Province, Panama September 26, 2024.

Bangladesh restores ‘except for Israel’ inscription on passports


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

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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

COVID: Israel puts more countries under travel warning, none under ban

Starting from November 26, Germany, Italy and Greece will become orange.

An El Al Israel Airlines Boeing 737-900ER airplane takes off from the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport as seen from Paracuellos del Jarama, outside Madrid, Spain, August 8, 2018

COVID travel chaos: Israel delays entry for travelers inoculated with Sputnik

Russia's Sputnik vaccine has not been authorized by WHO. Israel was supposed to allow in visitors inoculated with it from November 15 but has now pushed that back to December 1.

Vials of the Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine are seen at the Del-Pest Central Hospital in Budapest, Hungary, February 12, 2021.

Countries ban Iraqis flying to Belarus in echoes of 2017 'Muslim ban'

Turkey is blocking citizens of Syria, Yemen and Iraq from getting airline tickets to Belarus. The sweeping move conjures up memories of the Trump era “Muslim ban.”

Migrants gather around a fire near a barbed wire fence in a makeshift camp on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region, Belarus November 11, 2021. Picture taken November 11, 2021.

Will diplomacy trump health in new Israeli COVID travel policy? - analysis

The failure of the previous government to effectively manage Ben-Gurion Airport over the past 18 months played a major role in exacerbating the coronavirus crisis.

 People waiting in line at an MDA station to receive their coronavirus vaccines in Tel Aviv, August 14 2021