US to be Placed On List of Israel’s High-Risk Countries, Adds Quarantine for Arrivals

DansDeals and CrownHeights.info

Israel’s list of high-risk countries will expand next Wednesday to include the US and other countries. If you are flying to Israel, you will want to arrive before then when the new rules go into effect.

The exact rules are still up in the air, but changes are being made on the fly and everything is subject to change.

At present, electronic monitoring has been approved for use on those subject to quarantine, and Israelis must quarantine for 7-14 days upon return even if they are vaccinated or recovered.

While student visa holders should be allowed to enter with quarantine starting next Wednesday, some visa holders may not be allowed to fly to Israel at all.

Foreign nationals who have been in a high-risk country in the past 2 weeks who do enter the country may be subject to a 14-day quarantine in a quarantine hotel upon arrival.

A potential workaround to all of this is to fly to a non-high-risk country such as Canada or Switzerland, spend 2 weeks there, and then fly to Israel. However with the COVID-19 delta strain spreading rapidly across the globe, it’s only a matter of time before most or all countries in the world are considered high risk.

As per YNet, high-risk countries will include “Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Italy, Iceland, Eswatini, Argentina, United States, Botswana, Bulgaria, Belarus, UK, Georgia, Guatemala, Germany, South Africa, India, Netherlands, Honduras, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Turkey, Tanzania, Greece, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Malawi, Egypt, Mexico, Namibia, Spain, Scotland, Fiji, Czech Republic, France, Cuba, Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Cyprus, Rwanda, Russia, Tunisia.”