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


Simcha Rothman on COVID-19 closure: Let the Jews back in first

POLITICIAL AFFAIRS: The Religious Zionist Party’s Simcha Rothman aims to represent Anglos in the Knesset, but his approach is controversial.

 MK SIMCHA ROTHMAN: It’s not racism. Israel is the home of the Jewish people. You can’t leave people out of their home.

COVID-19 suspends the implicit Israel-Diaspora covenant - opinion

The complications of the COVID-19 pandemic have temporarily suspended this once iron-clad contract.

 THE OLD CITY’S Jaffa Gate – silence and emptiness.

COVID-19 travel ban to red countries to be lifted for some dual citizens

Grandparents will also be able to get approval for travel to grandchildren’s lifecycle events, for the first time since start of the pandemic.

 AN EMPTY arrival hall at Ben-Gurion Airport does not bode well for ‘olim.’

COVID-19 cabinet approves removing most countries from no-fly list

Cabinet also affirms new outline for coronavirus in schools.

Travelers seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 22, 2021.

Letters to the Editor December 29, 2021: See no evil

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Israel belongs to the Jews - opinion

If we fail to open the gates for them we jeopardize this crucial connection between Diaspora Jewry and Israel. This relationship is being tested.

 THE US DELEGATION takes part in the opening ceremony of the 20th Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem in 2017.

Bennett: Diaspora is ‘close to my heart,’ but no travel exceptions

Diaspora Jews are frustrated with Israel’s ban on foreigners entering the country due to the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

With more countries being declared ‘red,’ travelers converge on Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday.

By closing its borders, Israel is asking olim to choose

How can the country we love, contribute so much to, and sacrifice for, ask us to choose between our families and our country?

 AN EMPTY arrival hall at Ben-Gurion Airport does not bode well for ‘olim.’

Israel's skies could reopen by next week, says health minister

The experts said that “the continued existence of aviation restrictions is only relevant as long as there is no widespread infection from Omicron in the community.”

Travelers seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 22, 2021.

Church leaders in Jerusalem accuse Israel of anti-Christian bias

They are frustrated that Christian pilgrims did not receive an exemption to enter the locked-down country for Christmas, while Jewish groups have been allowed in.

 St. Andrew’s Scots Memorial Church is opposite the Old City walls of Jerusalem and above the Menachem Begin Heritage Center.