Visa requirements for Israeli citizens

Travelling with Israeli passport or visa

Visa-free and Visa-on-arrival Travel

Israeli passport holders are allowed visa-free access to approximately 118 countries and territories.

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Africa

Countries and Territories	Conditions of access
Botswana	90 days [5]
Burundi	Visa can be obtained upon arrival at Bujumbura Airport [6]
Cape Verde	Visa issued upon arrival [7]
Comoros	Visa issued upon arrival [8]
Egypt	Visa issued upon arrival 15 days free of charge provided remaining in South Sinai and not continuing to any other city [9]
Ethiopia	90 days visa issued on arrival [10]
Kenya	90 days [11]
Lesotho	14 days [12]
Madagascar	90 days visa issued upon arrival for MGA140,000 [13]
Malawi	90 days [14]
Mauritius	180 days in a year (tourist), 90 days in a year (business) [15][16]
Mayotte	90 days [17]
Mozambique	30 days visa issued upon arrival for US$25 [18][19]
Namibia	90 days
Réunion	unlimited access [20]
Saint Helena	90 days
Senegal	90 days [21]
Seychelles	30 days [22]
South Africa	90 days [23]
Swaziland	60 days [24]
Tanzania	90 days visa issued on arrival for $50 [25]
Togo	30 days visa issued upon arrival for XOF10,000 ~ XOF35,000 [26]
Uganda	90 days visa isused on arriavl for $50 [27]
Zambia	90 days visa issued on arrival for $50 [28][29]
Zimbabwe	90 days visa issued on arrival for $30–55 [30]

Asia

Countries and Territories	Conditions of access
Armenia	120 days visa issued upon arrival for US$50 [31]
Azerbaijan	30 days visa issued upon arrival for US$100 [32]
Cambodia	30 days visa issued on arrival for US$ 20 [33]
Georgia	360 days [34]
Hong Kong	90 days [35]
Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan only)	Visa issued upon arrival for at Erbil airport [36]
Japan	90 days [37] [38]
Jordan	visa issued upon arrival for JOD10 [39][40]
Kyrgyzstan	21 days visa issued upon arrival to Bishkek airport for US$35. Visas are not issued on land crossings [41]
Laos	30 days visa issued on arrival for US$ 30 [42]
Maldives	30 days [43]
Macau	90 days [44]
Mongolia	30 days [45]
Nepal	60 days visa issued upon arrival for US$30 [46]
Philippines	59 days [47]
Singapore	30 days [48]
Sri Lanka	30 days [49]
Timor-Leste	30 days visa issued upon arrival for US$30 [50]
Thailand	30 days [51]

Europe

Countries and Territories	Conditions of access
All member states of the Schengen Area	90 days
Albania	90 days[52]
Andorra	90 days [53]
Bosnia-Herzegovina	90 days [54]
Bulgaria	90 days [55]
Croatia	90 days [56][57]
Cyprus	90 days [58]
Guernsey	180 days (same as UK) [59]
Ireland	90 days [60]
Isle of Man	180 days (same as UK)[61]
Jersey	180 days (same as UK) [62]
Macedonia	90 days [63]
Montenegro	90 days [64]
Moldova	90 days starting from 01 April 2010 [65]
Romania	90 days [66]
Russia	90 days [67]
Serbia	90 days [68]
Turkey	90 days [69]
United Kingdom	180 days [70]

North America

Countries and Territories	Conditions of access
Aruba	90 days [71]
Bahamas	90 days [72]
Barbados	180 days [73][74]
Belize	30 days [75]
Bermuda	180 days [76][77]
Canada	180 days [78][79]
Cayman Islands	30 days [80]
Costa Rica	90 days [81]
Dominica	180 days [82]
Dominican Republic	90 days [83]
El Salvador	90 days[84]
Greenland	90 days [85]
Grenada	90 days [86][87]
Guadeloupe	90 days [88]
Guatemala	90 days [89]
Haiti	90 days [90][91]
Honduras	90 days [][92]
Jamaica	90 days [93]
Martinique	90 days [94]
Mexico	180 days [95][96]
Montserrat	90 days [97]
Netherlands Antilles	90 days [98]
Nicaragua	90 days [99]
Panama	30 days [100][101]
Saint Barthélemy	90 days [102]
Saint Kitts and Nevis	90 days [103][104]
Saint Lucia	28 days [105]
Saint Martin	90 days [106]
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	90 days [107]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	30 days [108]
Trinidad and Tobago	90 days [109]
Turks and Caicos Islands	30 days [110]

**NOTE: 2 October 2008, United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff and United States Deputy Secretary of State, John Negroponte declared intentions to cancel, in the near future, U.S. tourist visa requirement for Israeli Passport owners by adding Israel to the Visa Waiver Program. However, this intention has yet to be materialized.

South America

Countries and Territories	Conditions of access
Argentina	90 days [111]
Bolivia	90 days [112]
Brazil	90 days [113]
Chile	90 days [114]
Colombia	90 days [115]
Ecuador	90 days [116][117]
Falkland Islands	30 days [118]
French Guiana	90 days [119]
Paraguay	90 days [120]
Peru	90 days [121]
Suriname	120 days [122]
Uruguay	90 days [123]

Oceania

Countries and Territories	Conditions of access
Cook Islands	31 days [124]
Fiji	120 days [125]
French Polynesia	90 days [126]
Marshall Islands	30 days [127]
Micronesia	30 days[128]
New Caledonia	90 days [129]
New Zealand	90 days [130]
Niue	30 days [131]
Palau	30 days [132][133]
Samoa	60 days [134]
Solomon Islands	90 days [135]
Tonga	31 days
Tuvalu	30 days [136]
Vanuatu	30 days [137]
Wallis and Futuna	90 days [138]

Countries that do not accept Israeli passports

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  Countries that reject passports from Israel

  Countries that reject passports from Israel and any other passport which contain Israeli stamps or visas

• Algeria [139]
• Bangladesh [140]
• Brunei [141]
• Djibouti [142]
• Iran [143]
• Kuwait [144]
• Lebanon [145]
• Libya [146]
• Malaysia (Clearance permit needed from the Ministry of Internal Security.) [147]
• Pakistan [148]
• Saudi Arabia [149]
• Somalia
• Sudan [150]
• Syria [151]
• United Arab Emirates (Clearance permit needed from the Ministry of Internal Security.) [152]
• Yemen [153]

Note: According to Israeli law, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen and Iran are considered "Enemy countries" and an Israeli citizen may not visit them without a special permit issued by the Israeli minister of the interior. Therefore, an Israeli who visits these countries, be it with a foreign passport or an Israeli one, may be prosecuted when coming back to Israel. This list was set in 1954, and was updated only once on 25 July 2007 to include Iran. Egypt and Jordan allegedly remained among the "enemy countries", however the Israeli Ministry of the Interior issued a general unlimited permit to visit these countries, following the peace treaty signed between Israel and each of them, hence voiding the law in respect to both countries. On 1 April 2008, the Israeli government proposed a new revised law which includes a list of 10 countries and territories to be defined as "enemy countries": Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen and the Gaza Strip. As of March 2009, the legislative procedures of this revised law have not been concluded yet.

Some controversial rejections of Israeli nationals into the aforementioned countries include Tennis Player Shahar Pe'er who was recently denied a visa to the United Arab Emirates which would have allowed her to play in the 2009 Dubai Open.

Countries that might not accept passports which contain Israeli stamps or visas

• Iran
• South Korea
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Libya
• Pakistan[154]
• Saudi Arabia
• Sudan
• Syria
• Yemen

The countries listed above will not allow entry to people with evidence of visits to Israel or used or unused Israeli visas in their passports. Israeli border guards would once stamp a bit of paper instead of the passport in order to help visitors overcome these problems.

Some countries are aware of the exit stamps placed in passports by Egypt and Jordan at their land borders with Israel and will treat these stamps as a proof of visit to Israel and may block entry based on the presence of these stamps. For example, a traveller may be denied entry to certain countries because of the presence of an Egyptian exit stamp indicating the person left Egypt at Taba, at the Israeli border. Also, a traveller attempting to enter Syria from Jordan by land, and whose passport does not indicate how the traveller arrived in Jordan, might be denied entry by Syrian authorities.

Some Arab countries do allow entry for Israeli citizens, e.g. Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Oman, Morocco, Mauritania, and Tunisia.

Australia, Austria, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland, and United States may allow a passport holder to have two valid passports to circumvent the restrictions concerning Israel if the applicant can satisfactorily explain why a second passport is needed when applying. Turkish authorities may issue a temporary passport to visit Israel while keeping the main one safe to circumvent the travel restrictions.

Travel document in lieu of national passport

People who make aliyah to Israel are generally not eligible for an Israeli passport until they have resided in Israel for at least one year. Until the residence requirement is met such new citizens are issued a blue "travel document in lieu of national passport" (Laissez-passer). Holders of this document may not enjoy the same visa-free access to certain other countries enjoyed by holders of a standard Israeli passport. This also applies to most Arab residents in East-Jerusalem and the Golan Heights who are not in possession of Israeli citizenship.

See also

• Israeli passport