As explained on
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visas, there
are various ways to attain a visa entry to Israel even if you live in
a country with no Israeli embassies.
Further to that, there are actually a lot of prominent countries from
which no visa is needed to enter Israel:
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IsraelVisaPolicy.PNG
I really think that theoretical discussions on contrived scenarios on
how to enter Israel are rather inane and do not further the conference
in any way.
We can and will offer specific assistance to people with specific,
concrete difficulties, working with Israeli authorities to achieve the
special exemptions needed for people who actually want to attend the
conference but live in a place that makes it difficult for them to do
so.
Millions of tourists from dozens of counties enter Israel every year
safely and smoothly. Flying to Israel is even considered especially
safe, because of effective security procedures (as opposed to
"security theater").
See y'all in Haifa!
Harel Cain
Wikimania 2011 team
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11 August 2010 19:54, Abbas Mahmoud
<abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Yaroslav: X has no problem with Israel,
there's even an embassy in country X, from which he applied the visa, but since he is
on a work permit in the Middle east, the embassy sticks the visa on another paper. Since
the country where he works from isnt in good terms with Israel, he travels to Israel from
his homecountry X. Wouldn't the immigration officer in country X bar him passage due
to the fact that a visa is only recognised if sticked on a passport, and not a piece of
paper?
Why would the embassy give someone a visa in a way they couldn't
actually use? It would be pointless. Since embassies do hand out visas
in that manner, we can safely assume airlines accept them.
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