Israel Stamp Reviews

To travel or not to travel? There was a time when that was a rhetorical question. If a vacation was on the horizon, it was only a matter of where . Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. There were small and intermittent windows of opportunity to leave the country, and some Israelis had slipped through them -- only to find themselves stranded overseas without a return flight or forced into a quarantine facility immediately upon return. Headlines repeated promises that this country was in talks to open its borders to Israeli tourists or that airline was about to resume regular flights, but they were a mirage: the appointed time would come and nothing concrete would materialize. In February and March, as the fruits of Israel's flash immunization program began ripening, things finally appeared to be changing. By mid-April, the pandemic effectively over, roughly half a dozen countries became genuinely realistic destinations for vaccinated Israelis. They could fly out sans the need for ...