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Israel no longer gives you any visa stamps in passport. https://www.touristisrael.com/the-israeli-passport-stamp/9747/ https://www.touristisrael.com/the-israel

Israel no longer gives you any visa stamps in passport. https://www.touristisrael.com/the-israeli-passport-stamp/9747/ https://www.touristisrael.com/the-israeli-passport-stamp/974...

0xffff2 3y ago
I visited Israel circa 2012 and this was true even then.
- disgruntledphd2 3y ago
  > I visited Israel circa 2012 and this was true even then. It used to depend on where you were coming from. When travelling to Israel for work a few years back, my passport (irish citizen) was not stamped, but my colleague's (at the time, a Turkish citizen) was.
  - hinkley 3y ago
    That’s… were they fucking with him?
    - disgruntledphd2 3y ago
      No idea, Israeli border security are weird. Like, for the first few times I went there, they treated my like a terrorist (i am concerned that someone may have placed bombs in your bag etc). The last two times, OTOH, it's just been like a normal airport. No idea why.
  - workfromspace 3y ago
    sad to hear this, but not suprised as much. according to wikipedia, turkey is one of the few countries/regions where israel requires a visa from; along with india, pakistan and arab countries.
LorenPechtel 3y ago
But your passport is still tainted if you use any Israeli land crossing--they see the stamp from the other country and infer you were in Israel. Unlike what we saw in the 80s in Africa--so long as "South Africa" didn't appear you were ok. The border stamps into/out of South Africa didn't cause problems. The possession of a fair quantity of supplies with packaging in English/Afrikaans didn't matter--but the first day across the border the organizer had us stop and very carefully go over everything with a sharpie looking for labels that said "product of South Africa"--those had to be totally blotted out. And to show how stupid things were--he also had a stamp he had made up to make forged entries on our yellow books. At that time your average joe certainly did not have an up-to-date smallpox shot--but at multiple border crossings they would hit you up for a bribe if you didn't have an up-to-date smallpox shot. Hence fake them. (Even around 2000 which was the last time I had occasion to have anything added to my yellow book there still was no anti-counterfeit protection.)
- noduerme 3y ago
  "Tainted" is an odd word. Any country that would reject a Jew from entering for having an Israeli stamp in their passport is a country I would never want to step foot in, whatever my views on Israeli politics.

Israel no longer gives you any visa stamps in passport. https://www.touristisrael.com/the-israeli-passport-stamp/9747/ https://www.touristisrael.com/the-israeli-passport-stamp/974...

0xffff2 3y ago

I visited Israel circa 2012 and this was true even then.

disgruntledphd2 3y ago
> I visited Israel circa 2012 and this was true even then. It used to depend on where you were coming from. When travelling to Israel for work a few years back, my passport (irish citizen) was not stamped, but my colleague's (at the time, a Turkish citizen) was.
- hinkley 3y ago
  That’s… were they fucking with him?
  - disgruntledphd2 3y ago
    No idea, Israeli border security are weird. Like, for the first few times I went there, they treated my like a terrorist (i am concerned that someone may have placed bombs in your bag etc). The last two times, OTOH, it's just been like a normal airport. No idea why.
- workfromspace 3y ago
  sad to hear this, but not suprised as much. according to wikipedia, turkey is one of the few countries/regions where israel requires a visa from; along with india, pakistan and arab countries.

LorenPechtel 3y ago

But your passport is still tainted if you use any Israeli land crossing--they see the stamp from the other country and infer you were in Israel. Unlike what we saw in the 80s in Africa--so long as "South Africa" didn't appear you were ok. The border stamps into/out of South Africa didn't cause problems. The possession of a fair quantity of supplies with packaging in English/Afrikaans didn't matter--but the first day across the border the organizer had us stop and very carefully go over everything with a sharpie looking for labels that said "product of South Africa"--those had to be totally blotted out. And to show how stupid things were--he also had a stamp he had made up to make forged entries on our yellow books. At that time your average joe certainly did not have an up-to-date smallpox shot--but at multiple border crossings they would hit you up for a bribe if you didn't have an up-to-date smallpox shot. Hence fake them. (Even around 2000 which was the last time I had occasion to have anything added to my yellow book there still was no anti-counterfeit protection.)

noduerme 3y ago
"Tainted" is an odd word. Any country that would reject a Jew from entering for having an Israeli stamp in their passport is a country I would never want to step foot in, whatever my views on Israeli politics.