Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit has given the order to begin moving towards printing the new electronic biometric passports designed to significantly reduce the risk of forgeries. The new passports the minister said would be in use beginning in 2009.

Sheetrit has been working in earnest to introduce the new passports towards taking a major step to eliminate fraudulent reproduction of the current passports which today is relatively commonplace and not too difficult a task.

Please see the YWN article of April 8, 2008 for more details of the new passport [HERE]

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)