Currently, with few exceptions, no foreigners are allowed into Israel until December 29.
However, Israelis may come and go – except to red countries. Those countries are banned unless special permission to travel is approved. And all returnees are forced to enter quarantine for seven days. Unvaccinated travelers have to be isolated in a coronavirus hotel, The Jerusalem Post reported.
The Health Ministry has set new criteria for determining if a country is red. A country must meet all of the first three criteria to make the list:
1) If the country has a minimum of two or more confirmed Omicron cases. However, when a whole family, for example, tests positive, that is considered only one case because they were together.
2) If 10% or more of sequenced cases in a country test positive for Omicron.
3) If 10% or more of the cases that enter Israel from a certain specific country test positive for Omicron, or if five of 10,000 entrants test positive for the variant.
