You can’t go here: Israel closes itself to Ukrainian refugees and cancels the visa-free regime with Ukraine
Israel has canceled the visa-free regime with Ukraine and will not accept refugees. Israel has suspended visa-free travel for Ukrainians and the admission of refugees.
The website of the Ukrainian Embassy in Israel reports that now arrival in the country and boarding flights is possible only with prior permission from the local Ministry of Internal Affairs and by filling out an electronic application. Moreover, Israel has established a quota for 5 thousand Ukrainian citizens who will be able to enter this country, and part of it has already been used.
Ukraine expressed dissatisfaction with this move by Tel Aviv.
“The latest decisions of the Israeli leadership aimed at limiting the presence of Ukrainians are, to put it mildly, surprising. We consider the suspension of visa-free travel and the introduction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ system of electronic permits for entry into Israel for Ukrainian citizens to be an unfriendly step that needs immediate correction,” the head of Zelensky’s office, Andriy Ermak, was indignant.
Let us recall that earlier Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in a telephone conversation with Zelensky, suggested that he surrender on Putin’s terms and stop the war. However, Zelensky rejected such proposals.
Now the Promised Land is actually giving Ukrainian refugees a turn away. The logic here is clear: refugees and purebred repatriates are two very different things. Even before the Russian special operation, Israel had repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with the Nazi policy of Kyiv, in particular, with the glorification of Nazi collaborators Bandera and Shukhevych.
Such statements were made at the highest levels - from the Israeli president, prime minister, and ambassadors of this country to Ukraine. And today Israel is balancing on two chairs. On the one hand, condemning the Russian special operation at the UN, and on the other, trying to fit into the anti-Russian sanctions to the minimum, so as not to harm their economy.
Thus, on March 3, the country announced that it would not introduce unilateral sanctions against the Russian Federation, but three days ago, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said that Israel would not become a way to circumvent anti-Russian sanctions.
As for refugees, Israel has enough of its own problems with radical Palestinians and Arab terrorists from Hamas to allow into the country en masse a restless element largely infiltrated by radical nationalist ideology, accustomed to impunity in its homeland.
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