Amid fears of a new variant, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Tourism Minister Yoel Rezbozov today (Thursday) approved the tourism policy and entry into Israel in an outline that will take effect on November 1.
The outline will be updated in accordance with developments and the discovery of new variants and will soon be submitted to the government for approval.
According to the outline, they are allowed to enter Israel:
- Foreigners who were vaccinated with two Pfizer vaccines, and passed 7 days or more from the second vaccine on the day they entered Israel (but not more than 180 days when they left Israel).
- Foreigners who were vaccinated with two vaccines from Moderna, Astraznica, Synovak and Sinopharm, and passed 14 days or more from the second vaccine on the day they entered Israel (but not more than 180 days when they left Israel).
- Foreigners who were vaccinated with one Jansen vaccine and passed 14 days or more from the vaccine on the day they entered Israel (but not more than 180 days when they left Israel).
- Foreigners who were vaccinated with a Pfizer booster dose, and passed seven days or more from the vaccine on the day they entered Israel.
- Foreigners who were vaccinated with an impulse dose of Moderna, Synovak, Astraznica, Jansen, and 14 days or more passed from the vaccine on the day they entered Israel.
- Recovered foreigners who present a reference to a positive result in a NAAT test (molecular test such as PCR) and passed 11 days or more from the test on the day they entered Israel (and no more than 180 days passed on the day they left).
- Foreigners who have recovered and received at least one dose of the vaccines approved by the World Health Organization.
In addition, groups will receive an exemption from isolation based on conduct as a capsule, according to the following criteria:
Without serological examination
Tourists vaccinated with a vaccine approved by the World Health Organization.
- The conduct of the group in Israel as a capsule, without free time and with restrictions on walking around in places where there is an increased risk of infection.
- Up to 2,000 tourists per capsule per day (in mixed groups the strict outline will apply)
- Daily antigen test or PCR test, once every 72 hours for 14 days from entry into Israel.
- Tourists who have not been in a red country or a country with a severe travel warning in the 14 days prior to their entry into Israel.
