Passport

  • Validity & Expiration Dates: Israel requires that passports be valid up to six months past the entrance date to Israel. So even if you are planning on visiting Israel with a valid passport in August 2006, your passport must be valid until at least March 2007.
  • Middle Eastern Travel:  Many countries in the Middle East will not grant you entrance and refuse to issue you a travel visa to stay if you have an entry or exit stamp from Israel. The only remedy is to request a new passport from the State Department.


  • Entry points:
  •  by air: Ben Gurion(Tel Aviv) and Ovda(Eilat) airports,
  • by sea: Haifa, Ashdod, Eilat ports (very few passenger ships call in)
  • by land; from Egypt: Taba/Eilat and Keren Shalom, from Jordan: Aqaba/Eilat and Beit Shean(northern Jordan valley). There are no crossing points from Lebanon or Syria.