One of the largest effects that COVID-19 had on our lives was the immediate shutdown of recreational travel. Fortunately, we reached the point where travel has been revived a bit, and this is where the tale begins. After being effectively stuck at home for the past 2+ years, millions of Israelis are itching to travel abroad, searching for their long-forgotten passports, and hundreds of thousands are discovering those passports to be almost expired. The postpandemic Ministry of the Interior, understaffed and unprepared, is overloaded by the surge of vacation-hungry Israelis. With a backlog of more than 700,000 applications, a labor dispute, and the Foreign Ministry running out of passports, it’s a difficult time for travel in and out of Israel.
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