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If you are not an israeli citizen are you allowed to enter Israel on a one way ticket???? The one way was much cheaper so I booked it and now…..
PLEASE ADVISE! I can’t stress enough how urgent it is!!
I don’t see why you can’t enter.
Especially if you plan on buying another one way ticket for the way back before you leave, I don’t think it’s a problem but you should find out for sure.
No, and the problem will start with the airline at your point of departure, not with the Israeli government.
Keen: are you saying the airline will refuse to allow a non-Israeli to board the flight on a one-way ticket? If so, why did they sell him the ticket in the first place?
I was stopped at the ticket counter on my return home (to EY) with my 4 small children. This was the return flight of a round-trip ticket. They told me that they were not allowed to board non-Israeli citizen passengers who did not have a round-trip booked back to the US. I do not know where they got such ridiculous information, but I ended up having to book 5 round-trip fully refundable tickets while I was standing there at the desk. As soon as I got to my destination (Jerusalem), I promptly canceled those tickets.
Fully refundable tickets — i.e. full fare tickets non-discounted — are typically fully refundable, as Nechomah indicated. They typically are purchased by business fliers who may need to cancel a flight at the last minute.
As Keen said: The problem is more with the airline and security than with immigration when you get there.
(You will probably get pulled out of the security line and ‘interrogated’ bc you are on a one way ticket- it’s a big red flag for security).
But I would use Nechomah’s trick if you have to and just buy and then cancel a ticket- that will take care of the airline but not of security- just keep your story simple, don’t lie and don’t let their questions confuse you.
If you are going to do that make sure A) that you get to the airport on time (early) so that you have time for them to give you a hard time/ buy the ticket etc, B) you have a credit card with enough credit on it so that you can afford to buy a (really expensive) non-discounted/business ticket (that you will later cancel) and C) you ask them exactly what you need to do in order to cancel the ticket.
G’luck
PS: let us know what happened- I’m interested to know.
Be good
I flew MANY times on one-way tickets and on return flights of round-trip tickets. I was never pulled out of the security line, simply asked a few questions by the border guard officer at the window. Things like – why are you here (I was learning or my husband was learning), how long are you staying. It was a little nerve wracking, but not a big deal. I think that unless it was really extreme circumstances (like they suspect you of smuggling) they will issue you the standard, no-cost 3 month tourist visa and you will be expected to renew it in the Interior Ministry offices if you want to stay longer than that.
No, I did not have to pay because it was fully refundable. Just make sure you have a credit card on you that has open credit for such a charge since those are usually pretty pricey tickets.
I went on a one-way ticket with a European airline, and when it came up in random conversation at the counter that it was a one-way ticket, they just said that’s usually not allowed for a non-citizen. But nothing else happened. I also went on the return flight to Israel from a round trip El Al ticket, and nobody said anything about me not being a citizen.
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