Some foreign family members of Israeli citizens or permanent residents will be able to receive permission to enter Israel for life-cycle events, a Population and Immigration Authority official told the Knesset Law and Constitution Committee on Tuesday. They will be allowed entry even if they come from a country under a travel ban, the official said.
Meanwhile, 10 more countries, including the US and Canada, were put on the list of countries under a travel ban.
Amnon Shmueli, director of the Population and Immigration Authority’s Ben-Gurion Airport Unit, which sets criteria and grants special approvals to foreigners to travel to Israel, as well as to Israelis to fly to a “red” country, confirmed that new rules regarding weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs and births were approved during a meeting on Monday.
The exact criteria were set to be published on the Authority’s website later on Tuesday, an Authority representative told The Jerusalem Post. At print time, the website had not been updated.
The list was expected to include foreign parents of Israeli couples giving birth, grandparents of bar and bat mitzvah boys and girls and immediate family of a bride or a groom (parents, grandparents and siblings).
