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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 590

Population Immigration and Border Authority – PIBA

The US green card found on the body of Abdelaziz Kaddi, a Moroccan terrorist who stabbed four people in Tel Aviv on January 21, 2025. (X; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
January 23, 2025, 2:29 pm
‘Unclear why he’s here’: Questions mount over how Tel Aviv stabber was let into Israel
Reports say officials found Abdelaziz Kaddi had no lodging plans, little money and no obvious reason for wanting to visit, but okayed him anyway; days later he knifed four people
By ToI Staff
Passengers arriving at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on April 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 29, 2024, 6:12 pm
Visitors to Israel face a new headache from Jan. 1: Applying for a travel permit
Foreign nationals from visa-exempt countries seeking to visit Israel, including those from the US and European Union, will have to apply for a travel permit and pay a $6.80 fee
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: Supreme Court Justice Ofer Grosskopf at a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 6, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 14, 2023, 7:11 pm
Supreme Court rules Law of Return applies to widows of Jews’ children and grandkids
Judges uphold previous decision on matter against stance of Population Authority, which believes law only applies to non-Jewish widows of Jews, not widows of descendants
By Ron Kampeas
File: An Eritrean asylum seeker being detained by police amid clashes between protesters against the regime in Asmara and pro-regime activists in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 5, 2023, 11:48 am
53 suspects in Tel Aviv migrant clashes placed in administrative detention
Police minister said to push authorities to advance process, as state reportedly uninterested in pressing charges that may prevent suspects from leaving Israel
By Michael Horovitz
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to RUSNANO CEO Anatoly Chubais in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow, Russia, November 7, 2016. (AP Photo)
May 17, 2023, 5:13 pm
Report: Ex-senior Kremlin official who quit amid Ukraine war gets Israeli citizenship
Anatoly Chubais, former deputy PM to Yeltsin and ex-Putin adviser, seen at Population Authority office in northern Israel, denies changing his status
By Michael Horovitz and AP
People line up outside the Interior Ministry office to renew their passports, in Tel Aviv, on May 14, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
May 14, 2023, 2:10 pm
Israelis swamp passport offices at launch of marathon drive for travel documents
Interior minister calls for patience as authorities begin monthlong project, accepting passport applicants without appointment to tackle backlog
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israeli passports in Jerusalem, January 18, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
May 1, 2023, 2:36 pm
Battling backlog, Interior Ministry to open up passport services without appointments
For one month, Israelis will be able to show up to apply for or renew a passport at offices in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Beersheba and Haifa, which will stay open late
By ToI Staff
An Israeli passport on January 18, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 20, 2023, 12:00 am
Population Authority to open new office in bid to ease passport appointment shortage
Interior Ministry body hopes to provide hundreds more meetings a day to solve issue, as networks of hackers and bots scoop up time slots, sell them for steep prices online
By ToI Staff
Travelers seen exiting Ben Gurion International Airport, as Israel opens its borders and allows tourists to enter the country after months of being shut due to the COVID-19 pandemic, November 1, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
April 17, 2023, 3:18 pm
Despite baggage, some Palestinians rooting for Israel to secure US visa waiver
Israeli entry into US Visa Waiver Program conditioned on it allowing Palestinian-Americans to travel freely through country like other US citizens after decades of travel headaches
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: Israeli passports in Jerusalem, January 18, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 16, 2023, 6:32 pm
Unable to renew passports, many Israelis resort to paying scalpers for appointments
With backlog of a million pending renewals following pandemic, some pay hundreds of dollars as system is overwhelmed by hackers
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, on September 7, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
October 3, 2022, 8:48 am
Israeli’s Russian wife and son denied entry at airport as family flees Russian draft
Border authorities at Ben Gurion Airport put David Eventov’s wife, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, and son on a plane to Turkey; ‘Nobody saw her as a person,’ he says
By ToI Staff
Kefale Tayachew, his wife, Addisie, and their six children (from left) Alemnesh, Abraham, Lemlem, Desalegn, Elssa and Muluken, in their home in Gondar on May 29, 2022. (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)
June 15, 2022, 12:28 pm
As thousands fulfill lifelong Israel dream, other Ethiopians on hold indefinitely
A wave of 3,000 new immigrants is underway, but many activists say the piecemeal operation only prolongs the saga and provides false hope to those who will never be let into Israel
By Amy Spiro
Illustrative -- Demonstrator at a protest march against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Tel Aviv, on February 26, 2022 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 25, 2022, 7:28 pm
Ukraine refugees said suspected of trafficking teen because questioned in Russian
Court rules family can enter Israel following 3-day detention at Ben Gurion Airport after ‘controversial’ interrogation in Russian rather than Ukrainian led to misunderstanding
By ToI Staff
Illustrative -- Demonstrator at a protest march against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Tel Aviv, on February 26, 2022 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 24, 2022, 1:08 pm
Israel investigating suspected trafficking of 17-year-old Ukrainian refugee
Lawyer for family says paperwork shows teen arrived with adults who are responsible for her, but authorities are concerned over contradictions in details of alleged adoption
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Refugees fleeing the fighting in Ukraine arrive at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 15, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 16, 2022, 5:32 pm
Some Ukrainian refugees refused entry to Israel due to translation error – report
Hebrew original asked if applicants had previously stayed in country illegally, but in Ukrainian asked only if they’d ever ‘stayed in Israel’; hundreds may have been affected
By ToI Staff
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