The following important alert was provided to YWN by the Chaim V’Chessed Organization:
Earlier this week, Israel set new rules and limitations on entry to the country. All travelers, Israeli or foreign, must receive advance permission to enter the country from a Vaadat Charigim (Exceptions Committee). Various criteria were established for permitted entry to Israel, detailed here.
Five days after its establishment, the committee has been an abject failure. Thousands of Israelis abroad have appealed for permission to return home, but only a handful have been approved. Chaim V’Chessed has learned that the government is limiting the number of permits to no more than 600 each day. Due to this limitation, only truly unusual or emergency requests are being approved. Regular Israelis who find themselves abroad are not being granted permission to return home, despite clear government statements that they would be allowed.
Chaim V’Chessed has been especially inundated with requests from foreign residents of Israel who are currently abroad. Many of these residents actually have emergency circumstances which require immediate return to Israel, such as: medical situations, children alone in Israel, impending births, etc. To our disappointment, we have been informed that requests from non-Israelis are absolutely not being considered at this time, regardless of the circumstances.
At the same time, we have been dismayed to learn that Israel plans to allow many foreigners into the country next week – for a sporting event. Up to 900 wrestlers from 70 countries are expected to be allowed into the country to participate in an international wrestling competition. There appears to be a concerted effort to limit media coverage of the fact that while Israeli residents continue to be barred from returning home, the government will actually allow outsiders to enter the country.
In talks with government officials, Chaim V’Chessed representatives vociferously protested this bizarre decision. Chaim V’Chessed CEO Paysach Freedman, told Transportation Ministry officials that it is appalling that foreign mothers of young children are barred from returning home, while foreign athletes are permitted to enter the country.
Chaim V’Chessed has been incessantly lobbying for additional emergency flights between Israel and the United States. We have just learned that El Al will operate more emergency flights to and from the USA.
We can now share that Flight LY003 will operate on February 13 at 11:00 PM from Tel Aviv to JFK.
Sources tell us that several more flights will be added next week, as well. We will release those details as they become available.
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Not only the disgrace of letting these foreign athletes into Israel, but also the Greek Prime-Minister:- Do these athletes & Greek Prime-Minister have to go to a quarantine hotel for 2 weeks?
I have not seen my children in Israel in 2 years, but Israeli Government only cares about athletes, but keeps families:- children separated from parents, even worse than at Mexican border.
Stay off the elal whatsapp. I had 2 phone lines open for approximately 23 hours each before they answered. I was already on the plane when they answered. Use a travel agent.
This is just another example of how anti-Jewish is Zionism.
Wrestling is a sport that is perhaps the most emblematic of Esav as opposed to Yaakov.
So, of course, the Zionists have no problem allowing these combatants from all over the world to enter their country, totally disregarding any COVID risk, while these same Zionists harass the frum Jews, those emblematic of Yaakov, living under the Zionist jackboot, and also the Zionists deny permission to Jews, whether Israeli or otherwise, to enter Israel for even real humanitarian reasons.
Eileh elohecha, Tzionim…
It seems like Hashem is showing His people what it means to want to join with the Zionists, like the “Eretz HaKodesh”/WZO vote fiasco of last year.
Instead of a “normal” world, where people fly wherever and whenever they want, now, to fly to Zionist-controlled areas of Eretz Yisrael, they need special permission from the Zionists and have to scramble to find an “emergency” flight to there.
As Rav Aharon Feldman said at the Agudah Convention, Jews would have been far better off without the whole farce of “Eretz HaKodesh” and the WZO.
stop whining