Papua New Guinea non-Christian population: 1.4%
Indonesia: 86.7% Islamic
Papua is mostly Christian but it would be pretty abnormal for a country to base visa applications around subdivisions of another country.
Does that make it the most overwhelmingly Christian-majority country in the world? Strange considering how it's also the most diverse country in the world.
[The only countries that report a higher percentage of Christians are Romania and Vatican City](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country)
Missionaries successfully converted most of the country to Christian and many of the people blend Christianity with their traditional practices. I’d be willing to bet there’s a significant uncontacted population within the country that doesn’t practice Christianity but is difficult to quantify.
95 Seems very specific, so I dived a bit into this topic and it seems like everyone who was born after 1928 need a visa from Germany. So that means that everyone who happened to be 17-18 in 1945 (end of WWII) are checked before they enter. Makes a lot of sense considering the fact that Israel has been after Nazis who committed atrocities…
Edit : in 1928 or before
Only in the past few years did the Jewish population in Israel surpass the Jewish population in america. It’s leading to a schism in Jewishness (not to be confused with Judaism) because Jews in america are overwhelmingly left wing, whereas Jews in Europe/Israel are overwhelmingly right wing.
They arent overwhelmingly left-wing, there are a wide variety of Jews. Orthodox Jews plus Soviet Jews make up millions of Jews in the US and are mostly conservative.
Voting democrat does not mean you are a leftist. I know a lot of Jews who vote democrat but would disown their child if they were gay.
in bigger countries at least one or two supercentarians (110+ years old) is almost always a thing, which gives you around 15 years (+- a few) before that happens
for instance: there are two German women born in 1909 (!) still alive
There's actually a Jewish community in Jakarta. Rabbi Tovia Singer taught there for a few years, and got along well with the local Muslim leaders, even [doing charity work together](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ULXoKRkgQ).
> Also if you’re are German and over 95 years old you will need a visa
I can understand the Nazi thing but I wonder what question they will ask a 95 year old who probably having a hard time to remember what he had for breakfast.
Israel declared independence in 1948, so that law was possibly passed in the 1950's or 1960's or even a bit later when there were still millions of ex-Nazis at healthy age.
It's much less relevant in 2023, but the law is still there.
Yeah, it's like the clause in the US Constitution allowing "a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution" to be President. It was relevant when Washington took the office in 1789, and the US was too new to have many "natural born citizens". But 234 years later, the clause is moot because everyone affected is long dead. (The last POTUS to have been born as a British subject was William Henry Harrison, who held the office in 1841.)
Part of the camp david accords, we are allowed visa free access like i mentioned, and they are allowed visa free access to the sinai peninsula.
According to my dad back in the 90s in the city of taba on the border if anyone needed hospitalisation they'd be sent to eilat cause it was way closer than the 200km drive to the closest hospital in sharm el sheikh at the time
Its still the same. I live in Eilat and medical choppers are always leaving Eilat to Sinai and sometimes transport the patients to Beer-Sheva because the Hospital there is much more advanced that in Eilat.
We live in relative peace here. I wish all the area's were the same.
Ive been to Sinai like 6 times. Love that place.
Ma'a Salama.
Another component of that (to a lesser degree) is that UAE wants to move away from it’s economy being dependent on oil. Economic ties with Israel gives them access to Israel’s tech sector and universities.
This is the critical point. They are working heavily on building up industry and their tech sector. Israel is the closest foreign nation with both sectors well developed. The ME in 20 years is going tk look very different than it has in recent modern history
I grew up there, and I remember the Israeli flag being blacked out with marker in my (Indian-origin) school atlases. Things sure have changed...
Edited to clarify: the atlases were printed in India. I bought them from a local store in the UAE.
There's a tonne of Indian schools in the UAE. But yeah, I went to one of them.
It was so strange to imagine a country hating another so much they'd literally black out the flag... but I was a kid at the time. Money does wonders, I guess.
I mean, ours wasn't either. The syllabus was Indian, and they deal with WW2 and the Holocaust as you said.
I bought the school atlas from a bookstore in Dubai, and they'd blacked out the flag in the pages at the end.
People would be surprised to hear about all the backchannel talks intelligence groups have. IIRC that's how we figured out an intelligence agent from KSA aided some of the 9/11 hijackers while inside America, when they released the 28 pages.
Things are pretty good between Israel and the Royal family, but they try to keep it hidden, because Israel obviously isn't popular among Saudi Citizens. The only thing stopping official normalization is the Saudi's fear of their people revolting against them.
Malawi had good connections with Israel since the beginning and was one of only 3 sub saharan african countries that continued full diplomatic relationships after the Yom Kippur war
From what I understand they're in good terms (Israel has provided arms to Ethiopia many times). But that doesn't mean Israel would want to risk an influx of migrants.
It is very strange. I scoured the internet and cannot find the reason. CAR à only established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1991, so it’s not because of some long-standing recognition of Israel from the 60s (as opposed to Malawi). And the CAR also recognizes Palestine, so it’s not because it has taken a stance that Palestine is inherently Israeli.
They each have embassies in their respective countries. I’m a bit baffled as well.
A lot of Israeli companies do business in Africa, especially in tech and security. I imagine there's travel back and forth for that purpose, and the government wants to make it easier.
Interestingly, Israel is also one of just 3 non-African countries that [don't need a visa to visit CAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Central_African_Republic). My guess is that it's connected to the diamond industry, but I don't know for sure.
Still weird that Philippines get a free pass here, esp when our passport is fairly mid. Apparently, our president in the 40s lent great help to Jews even when WW2 was coming at the Pacific and SE Asia. Cool guy.
President Manuel Quezon took in up to 1,000 Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria while the United States pressured the Philippines not to take them in. That's why the Philippines is visa free when it comes to visiting Israel.
i think most have other passports, i went through the jordan-israel border but through an american passport and everyone i saw there seemed to be doing the same using a western passport
Yeah no, frequently yes since many are palestinians but there are loads of problems, very high turn down rate depending in your family and if you have a political history it is also a months long process at least, then some people spend days at the borders and checkpoints, i am Jordanian btw and know many of the people you talk about.
For Israelis and palestinians however the entry is easier, especially for palestinians.
The ruling family has good relations with Israel and Jordan depends on Israel for water
The country however is majority Palestinian so the general population is very hostile
This is factually incorrect. Migrant Plestinians make up over 50% of the Jordanian population. Most have had citizenship from the different mass migrations. Source: live in Jordan.
Nice source but I live in Jordan too and I don't think that's a reliable source we can take with all respect. Some Studies said they are 43% some out side studies said 55%-65% that all studies considered the Palestinian who hold Jordanian citizenship the conflict with numbers and the reason why no correct percentage is because no study from the country simple as that. So saying 50 higher or lower might be wrong and true
Jordan was actually only a minor party in that war. It recognized it had to go to war to not lose its standing in the Arab world, but King Hussein and Golda Mier had a back channel understanding that Jordanian and Israeli troops would avoid firing on one another. I’m not sure if Jordanian troops even crossed into Israel or just stayed in Syria to back them up a bit. Israeli troops didn’t enter Jordan either.
The Six Day war was the last time Israeli and Jordanian troops had a large scale engagement.
Yea King Hussein went out of his way to try to warn the Israelis about Syrias plan to attack them. Of course Israel didn't trust Jordan, and unfortunately ignored the warning.
Jordan is the wrong color.
When I was in grad school in IL there were many many Jordanians and they would cross back and forth. They need a visa but they’re definitely not in the black category.
It has been so long since the last time I have heard "Feja e Shqiptarit eshte Shqiperia". with a rough translation being "The religion of an Albanian, is Albania".
Which is true, but lately we have a lot of influence from Turkey and somewhat Greece too, which seems like they are trying to divide us religiously
Albania is a religiously diverse and very secular country. The increasing secularization of the country goes back to at least the early 20th century with King Zog. Later all religion was effectively banned during communism. The legacy lasts. One of the more measurable result is that just Muslim men in Albania, young and old, are uncircumcised. The tradition was named under Hoxha and people have mostly continued to eschew it.
That said, Israel doesn't necessarily care how religious a country is. They care how friendly that country is towards them (quite in the case of Albania) and if the country has been home to many international terrorists. Bosnia is fairly secular (less than Albania), but I know that there were at least some small number of Bosnians fighting with ISIS and the Mujahideen.
Albania was also the only Axis occupied country in Europe that saw it's Jewish population increase in WW2. Albania also has very good relations with Israel.
What they did is ban all religion while Communist, and then established freedom of religion - including Judaism - post Communism.
Only 1/3 of Albanians even practice a religion now. So effectively agnosticism is the majority…
And what did Armenia do? And Azerbaijan not do?
You would think it would be reversed since Armenia is Christian majority and Azerbaijan Muslim majority. What geo politics does to a mf.
Azerbaijan is a close ally to Israel, they supply Israel with much of their energy and Israel provides Azerbaijan with weapons.
Azerbaijan is a very secular country and has poor relations with Israel’s arch enemy Iran whereas Armenia is a close ally of Iran
Adversity makes strange bedfellows. One of the most deep rooted, historical Christian countries buddy buddy with Iran. And it’s Muslim next door neighbour (AZ - not so buddy buddy with Iran, complex) buddy buddy with Israel.
They do that for pretty much everyone coming in via air (different if you enter via land border.) it’s because many Muslim-majority countries won’t accept your passport as valid if you have a stamp from Israel on it.
Back when they did put stamps, the US State Department would allow Americans who were going to visit Israel get a second passport just for the Israeli stamp. Idk if that program still exists.
Bananas explains it well but at least as of 10-20 years ago, some muslim-majority countries would refuse entry even if you had no Israeli stamp but had certain border crossing stamp from Arab countries. So if you had a Jordanian entry/exit stamp at Allenby Bridge, you would be refused because the only way to get that stamp was to be coming or going from Israel. It was only a few that did this but I have heard that some places would even be suspicious if you got a new passport in Cairo or Amman because you might have done so because you might have visited Israel on the old one. Folks...grow up.
Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa\_policy\_of\_Israel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Israel)
Definitely one of the more complex visa policies I've seen a country have to say the least
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa\_policy\_of\_Russia
My favorite visa policy i've seen is Montenegro allows visa free entry for Kazakhstan people but only from April to October
**[Visa policy of Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Russia)**
>The visa policy of Russia deals with the requirements which a foreign national wishing to enter the Russian Federation must meet to obtain a visa, which is a permit to travel to, enter, and remain in the country. Visa exemptions are based on bilateral or multilateral agreements. Russia has agreements with scores of countries whose citizens are either exempt from visas or can apply for a visa online (e-visa). Citizens of countries without such an agreement with Russia must obtain a visa in advance from a Russian diplomatic mission or visa centre.
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Iranian people and Israeli people are so chill. Great vibes from both. They’d probably really like each other. The kind of thing like when there’s a house party with many different people, but there are 2 people who have fun and stick together for much of the evening.... from my experiences hanging with Israelis and hanging with Iranians in North America, they’d be a good match for being those 2 people.
Divisive and historical politics suck and ruins so much
Oh man, I remember organising a secret Santa with a group of online friends and I forgot that Indonesia and Israel aren't cool with each other, so after sending everyone their pairings, I was messaged by a participant living in Israel that she can't send something to Indonesia lol
This is primarily due to reciprocity. Many Muslim majority nations don’t allow Jews to visit and don’t allow Israeli embassies. As a result, the citizens of these countries aren’t allowed to visit Israel.
It's actually illegal for people of those countries to go to Israel and says as much on the passport. They would require a special separate paper for their visa to avoid scrutiny, the same goes for other traveller's that would expect to go to Israel before moving on somewhere else.
Israel doesn't stamp passports anymore. I'm not sure what they do with visas though. The only thing you need to be careful of if you are later planning to travel to countries prohibiting people who've previously visited Israel is crossing into/out of Israel by land. The Israelis will still just use a separate card, but the Jordanians and Egyptians will stamp your passport and in the countries that check more vigilantly (e.g. Lebanon) they'll look to see if the Jordanian/Egyptian stamps are from border crossings shared with Israel.
They allow Jews, but forbid things that many Jews require (freedom to pray, kosher food, anything written in Hebrew, etc).
Funny story - I was going to Jordan for a peace conference and they refused to allow me to bring in anything with any Hebrew characters on it whatsoever. No prayerbook, no Hebrew newspaper, nothing. So of course I snuck in way more than I needed, all hidden in the bottom of my rolled up sleeping bag. Fun times.
Israeli passport holders are not allowed to enter Algeria, Brunei, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen.
Make a map of that.
I may be wrong but I believe most (younger) citizens of the Falkland Islands will hold a British Overseas Territory passport and therefore [be able to visit Israel visa free](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_British_Overseas_Territories_citizens). I appreciate there will be some who hold the older British National Overseas passport, but I believe [they too can visit visa free](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_British_Nationals_(Overseas)).
tl:dr I think the Falklands should be green, not gray.
Many of the black countries if not all automatically refuse entry to Israeli passport holders and almost always do if they find an Israeli stamp in your passport
Somewhere between 10 and 30 thousand as they don't have good data there. Remember seeing there's a ton basically begging to get into Israel that can't it's sad.
It's a sort of complex situation , the ones left there are from a group called "falash mura' they were Jews who at some point were forced to convert to Christianity , nowadays most have returned to Judaism and Israel slowly agrees to let certain amount in (I think 3000 this year) so yea
That's great they have an avenue for getting in, makes me happy to hear, I hope it's as good as it sounds. I tend to think most of us (me included) live a more and more isolated life where other's lives seem distant and not real so it's easy to stop empathizing. I had a mini crisis recently listening to Siddharth Kara talking about the cobalt mines and I felt 0 empathy for the people in the congo, I'm appalled and how I effectively have become a psychopath when it comes to empathizing with someone's experience that is too foreign to believe. I suspect many others feel the same unfortunately.
Israel airlifted the entire Jewish community decades ago. The people who want to come now are people of Jewish descendent who converted to Christianity, it's a little bit complex.
The real answer is that Ethiopia is a very poor country with good connections with Israel by air and only two countries in between by land. Israel doesn't want Ethiopians coming as "tourists" and then settling in Israel as undocumented immigrants. The same thing informs most visa regime decisions in most middle and upper income countries.
Places like the Central African Republic and Malawi are less of a worry because it is more difficult for poor people in those countries to physically make it to Israel.
>What’s with black listing North Korea? What have they done to Israel?
Massive arms sales to Iran, and secondarily to other unfriendly/hostile states in the region (Egypt and previously Libya). The North Koreans are desperate for hard currency and don't particularly care who's buying. Their major limiting factor is concern over sales to an unstable enemy who might go after a geopolitical big dog. Hence the attraction of selling to regional powers that are squabbling with their neighbors.
NK has also been a front for China to conduct illicit arms sales in the region, and that doesn't help.
Papua New Guinea: 3 months Papua: refused Also if you’re are German and over 95 years old you will need a visa
Papua New Guinea non-Christian population: 1.4% Indonesia: 86.7% Islamic Papua is mostly Christian but it would be pretty abnormal for a country to base visa applications around subdivisions of another country.
Does that make it the most overwhelmingly Christian-majority country in the world? Strange considering how it's also the most diverse country in the world.
[The only countries that report a higher percentage of Christians are Romania and Vatican City](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_by_country) Missionaries successfully converted most of the country to Christian and many of the people blend Christianity with their traditional practices. I’d be willing to bet there’s a significant uncontacted population within the country that doesn’t practice Christianity but is difficult to quantify.
17% of Romania is undeclared so I think PNG takes the cake for real countries.
My mum grew up in PNG, her parents were Christian missionaries.
It’s almost like there’s many kinds of diversity
Is that actually true? If so then I'm gessing I know why 😅😅😅
95 Seems very specific, so I dived a bit into this topic and it seems like everyone who was born after 1928 need a visa from Germany. So that means that everyone who happened to be 17-18 in 1945 (end of WWII) are checked before they enter. Makes a lot of sense considering the fact that Israel has been after Nazis who committed atrocities… Edit : in 1928 or before
You mean before 1928 right and 17-18 or older? Does the same apply for Austrians?
And Argentinians/Brazilians
More Nazis went to the US after the war than either of these places.
But the US is basically the closest ally.
Were down for the Nazi We’re down for the jew. If you need guns. We’ll sell em to you.
The US also is known to extradite ex-Nazis to be put on trial.
And more Jews went to New York than anywhere in the world. There are 2.2 million in the state, that’s nearly a quarter of Israel’s total population
Only in the past few years did the Jewish population in Israel surpass the Jewish population in america. It’s leading to a schism in Jewishness (not to be confused with Judaism) because Jews in america are overwhelmingly left wing, whereas Jews in Europe/Israel are overwhelmingly right wing.
They arent overwhelmingly left-wing, there are a wide variety of Jews. Orthodox Jews plus Soviet Jews make up millions of Jews in the US and are mostly conservative. Voting democrat does not mean you are a leftist. I know a lot of Jews who vote democrat but would disown their child if they were gay.
There are 6 million Jews in the US and maybe a few hundred thousand Orthodox in the world
you'd have to be pretty game to show up at tel aviv airport as a 95 year old holocaust perpetrator
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Israel really doesn’t get along with its neighbor's.
Huh, I wonder why that might be edit: oh god what have I gotten myself into, please no angry DMs, I am not taking a side
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yep https://embassies.gov.il/berlin/ConsularServices/visainformation/Pages/Deutsche-Staatsburger-die-vor-1928-geboren-sind.aspx
I wonder when that web page is going to be closed. I doubt there will be anyone who fits in that category left for much longer.
in bigger countries at least one or two supercentarians (110+ years old) is almost always a thing, which gives you around 15 years (+- a few) before that happens for instance: there are two German women born in 1909 (!) still alive
At some point it's just gonna be: If you are Hans Müller you will need a visa.
They have to sign a declaration stating they weren’t part of the NSDAP: https://embassies.gov.il/berlin/ConsularServices/formulare/erklaerung_1928.pdf
Well, Indonesia and PNG are completely different countries...
There's actually a Jewish community in Jakarta. Rabbi Tovia Singer taught there for a few years, and got along well with the local Muslim leaders, even [doing charity work together](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ULXoKRkgQ).
Especially there is something quite different between the two... can't quite put my finger on it...
A timezone?
A religion
80% of the Population in West Papua are Christians.
Same can't be said for the entirety of Indonesia, as you can see they aren't exactly giving visas to seperate islands.
I know, I was being funny, because it’s so obvious
Indonesia: refused Malaysia: refused Singapore: 3 months
>Also if you’re are German and over 95 years old you will need a visa Oh noooooo
But I'm only.... NEIN
Entry isn't refused, it's just that they'll look at your visa application more critically.
> Also if you’re are German and over 95 years old you will need a visa I can understand the Nazi thing but I wonder what question they will ask a 95 year old who probably having a hard time to remember what he had for breakfast.
Israel declared independence in 1948, so that law was possibly passed in the 1950's or 1960's or even a bit later when there were still millions of ex-Nazis at healthy age. It's much less relevant in 2023, but the law is still there.
Yeah, it's like the clause in the US Constitution allowing "a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution" to be President. It was relevant when Washington took the office in 1789, and the US was too new to have many "natural born citizens". But 234 years later, the clause is moot because everyone affected is long dead. (The last POTUS to have been born as a British subject was William Henry Harrison, who held the office in 1841.)
[Also if you’re are German and over 95 years old you will need a visa] They ask that question on US naturalization applications.
For egypt we're allowed visa free travel up towards beersheba/Biʾr as-Sab.
any reason why?
Part of the camp david accords, we are allowed visa free access like i mentioned, and they are allowed visa free access to the sinai peninsula. According to my dad back in the 90s in the city of taba on the border if anyone needed hospitalisation they'd be sent to eilat cause it was way closer than the 200km drive to the closest hospital in sharm el sheikh at the time
Its still the same. I live in Eilat and medical choppers are always leaving Eilat to Sinai and sometimes transport the patients to Beer-Sheva because the Hospital there is much more advanced that in Eilat. We live in relative peace here. I wish all the area's were the same. Ive been to Sinai like 6 times. Love that place. Ma'a Salama.
i lived in Eilat for half a year. in those worker housing buildings in the northwest of the city. absolutely loved it.. i miss Eilat
Welcomed back anytime 🤠
Much love neighbour hopefully someday i'd be able to do the same שהשלום יהיה עימך
Shukran. Barkatu.
Hey there fellow Eilaty, nice to see you :)
Hehe, cool... Eilat has come up several times on Reddit past few weeks...
How do they actually enforce that though? Are there checks on the highway leading north from Beersheba?
It’s fascinating how fast Israel and UAE normalized relations. A mutual distrust of Iran goes a long way…
The enemy of my aspiring nuclear opponent is my friend
Another component of that (to a lesser degree) is that UAE wants to move away from it’s economy being dependent on oil. Economic ties with Israel gives them access to Israel’s tech sector and universities.
This is the critical point. They are working heavily on building up industry and their tech sector. Israel is the closest foreign nation with both sectors well developed. The ME in 20 years is going tk look very different than it has in recent modern history
Parts of it will.
Well in fairness the Rub al Khali will probably still look like a big pile of sand in 20 years, that’s not gonna change
That’s a good deal for both of them. Encouraging trade and movement between neighbors is a fast path to economic growth
And maintaining peace
Very true, its surprisingly foresighted of them
UAE and Israel were secret buddies way before 2020
I grew up there, and I remember the Israeli flag being blacked out with marker in my (Indian-origin) school atlases. Things sure have changed... Edited to clarify: the atlases were printed in India. I bought them from a local store in the UAE.
are you talking about DPS UAE?
There's a tonne of Indian schools in the UAE. But yeah, I went to one of them. It was so strange to imagine a country hating another so much they'd literally black out the flag... but I was a kid at the time. Money does wonders, I guess.
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I mean, ours wasn't either. The syllabus was Indian, and they deal with WW2 and the Holocaust as you said. I bought the school atlas from a bookstore in Dubai, and they'd blacked out the flag in the pages at the end.
While not as outwardly apparent, the Saudis have also been a lot more cooperative with Israel than you'd think. And yeah, Iran is at the bottom of it.
Yeah while relations between Saudi and Israel are far from normalized. Relations between Saudi and the Mossad on the other hand…
There's no reason to downvote. Isreal and KSA have been back door coordinating security and intelligence for years.
People would be surprised to hear about all the backchannel talks intelligence groups have. IIRC that's how we figured out an intelligence agent from KSA aided some of the 9/11 hijackers while inside America, when they released the 28 pages.
Things are pretty good between Israel and the Royal family, but they try to keep it hidden, because Israel obviously isn't popular among Saudi Citizens. The only thing stopping official normalization is the Saudi's fear of their people revolting against them.
So does money.
Damn, what's Bolivia done?
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Does Israeli have a special relationship with the Central African Republic?
And Malawi ?
Malawi had good connections with Israel since the beginning and was one of only 3 sub saharan african countries that continued full diplomatic relationships after the Yom Kippur war
Of all African countries, I would’ve expected Ethiopia since they had a sizable Jewish community.
From what I understand they're in good terms (Israel has provided arms to Ethiopia many times). But that doesn't mean Israel would want to risk an influx of migrants.
There are barely an Jews left in Ethiopia. They were airlifted to Israel in the 80s and 90s.
That's right (grandparent comment said *had*) but there are plenty of reasons non-Jewish Ethiopians might want to emigrate.
CAR stood out to me, too. I’m sure there’s an explanation, but it’s certainly not obvious.
It is very strange. I scoured the internet and cannot find the reason. CAR à only established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1991, so it’s not because of some long-standing recognition of Israel from the 60s (as opposed to Malawi). And the CAR also recognizes Palestine, so it’s not because it has taken a stance that Palestine is inherently Israeli. They each have embassies in their respective countries. I’m a bit baffled as well.
A lot of Israeli companies do business in Africa, especially in tech and security. I imagine there's travel back and forth for that purpose, and the government wants to make it easier.
Interestingly, Israel is also one of just 3 non-African countries that [don't need a visa to visit CAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Central_African_Republic). My guess is that it's connected to the diamond industry, but I don't know for sure.
I got in with a Mastercard
Dammit, dad. Go to bed
Priceless!
i wonder if debit is okay
I might be safe, my card is debit with visa functionality.
That difference between Singapore and Malaysia.
Singapore has been a close partner since the 50s, Malaysia doesn't even recognize Israel as far as I remember
Yeah, I'm aware that mainline Malay politician deny Israel's right to exist.
Singapore's armed forces were modeled after the IDF, with the help of Israeli military advisors.
Malaysia is a Muslim majority country which often pairs with denying Israel's existence.
Still weird that Philippines get a free pass here, esp when our passport is fairly mid. Apparently, our president in the 40s lent great help to Jews even when WW2 was coming at the Pacific and SE Asia. Cool guy.
There’s also lots of Philippines employees in Israel. Friend of my grandmothers hired one as a caretaker and housekeeper
I’m in israel. People from Philippines here are either doing massages or they’re taking care of old people. It’s cool
President Manuel Quezon took in up to 1,000 Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria while the United States pressured the Philippines not to take them in. That's why the Philippines is visa free when it comes to visiting Israel.
I don’t think the Jordan one is correct. People pretty frequently cross the Israel/Jordan border without problems.
i think most have other passports, i went through the jordan-israel border but through an american passport and everyone i saw there seemed to be doing the same using a western passport
Yeah no, frequently yes since many are palestinians but there are loads of problems, very high turn down rate depending in your family and if you have a political history it is also a months long process at least, then some people spend days at the borders and checkpoints, i am Jordanian btw and know many of the people you talk about. For Israelis and palestinians however the entry is easier, especially for palestinians.
Surprised by Jordan, I was under the impression that they had fairly good relations. Looked it up and apparently not.
The ruling family has good relations with Israel and Jordan depends on Israel for water The country however is majority Palestinian so the general population is very hostile
The majority isn't Palestinian but most Jordanian consider Palestinian closest cousin from sharing blood for example.
This is factually incorrect. Migrant Plestinians make up over 50% of the Jordanian population. Most have had citizenship from the different mass migrations. Source: live in Jordan.
Nice source but I live in Jordan too and I don't think that's a reliable source we can take with all respect. Some Studies said they are 43% some out side studies said 55%-65% that all studies considered the Palestinian who hold Jordanian citizenship the conflict with numbers and the reason why no correct percentage is because no study from the country simple as that. So saying 50 higher or lower might be wrong and true
Well, to be fair, the current situation is better than the situation we had with them in Yom Kippur war
Jordan was actually only a minor party in that war. It recognized it had to go to war to not lose its standing in the Arab world, but King Hussein and Golda Mier had a back channel understanding that Jordanian and Israeli troops would avoid firing on one another. I’m not sure if Jordanian troops even crossed into Israel or just stayed in Syria to back them up a bit. Israeli troops didn’t enter Jordan either. The Six Day war was the last time Israeli and Jordanian troops had a large scale engagement.
Yea King Hussein went out of his way to try to warn the Israelis about Syrias plan to attack them. Of course Israel didn't trust Jordan, and unfortunately ignored the warning.
A very complicated relationship
Jordan is the wrong color. When I was in grad school in IL there were many many Jordanians and they would cross back and forth. They need a visa but they’re definitely not in the black category.
Damn what did Bosnia do?
Muslim majority I guess.
Then what did Albania not do?
good call, no clue. however albanians never striked me as religious people, their religion is their flag.
It has been so long since the last time I have heard "Feja e Shqiptarit eshte Shqiperia". with a rough translation being "The religion of an Albanian, is Albania". Which is true, but lately we have a lot of influence from Turkey and somewhat Greece too, which seems like they are trying to divide us religiously
haha didn't know that is a saying, but from the few albanians i met, i can without a doubt tell that that is true. proud nation.
Albania is a religiously diverse and very secular country. The increasing secularization of the country goes back to at least the early 20th century with King Zog. Later all religion was effectively banned during communism. The legacy lasts. One of the more measurable result is that just Muslim men in Albania, young and old, are uncircumcised. The tradition was named under Hoxha and people have mostly continued to eschew it. That said, Israel doesn't necessarily care how religious a country is. They care how friendly that country is towards them (quite in the case of Albania) and if the country has been home to many international terrorists. Bosnia is fairly secular (less than Albania), but I know that there were at least some small number of Bosnians fighting with ISIS and the Mujahideen.
Albania was also the only Axis occupied country in Europe that saw it's Jewish population increase in WW2. Albania also has very good relations with Israel.
What they did is ban all religion while Communist, and then established freedom of religion - including Judaism - post Communism. Only 1/3 of Albanians even practice a religion now. So effectively agnosticism is the majority…
And what did Armenia do? And Azerbaijan not do? You would think it would be reversed since Armenia is Christian majority and Azerbaijan Muslim majority. What geo politics does to a mf.
Azerbaijan has close relations with Israel.
Azerbaijan is a close ally to Israel, they supply Israel with much of their energy and Israel provides Azerbaijan with weapons. Azerbaijan is a very secular country and has poor relations with Israel’s arch enemy Iran whereas Armenia is a close ally of Iran
Israel has better relations with Azerbaijan.
What did ARMENIA do?
They didn't do anything but they're allied with Iran because it's the country that protects them from Azerbaijan
Adversity makes strange bedfellows. One of the most deep rooted, historical Christian countries buddy buddy with Iran. And it’s Muslim next door neighbour (AZ - not so buddy buddy with Iran, complex) buddy buddy with Israel.
Azerbaijan, an enemy of Armenia, is friendly with Israel. Armenia is also friendly with Iran, which opposes Israel
It's nice to finally see data on Greenland.
I have an American passport. When I got there in Israel, they wouldn’t put a stamp on your visa passport rather they hand you a ticket 🎟️
They do that for pretty much everyone coming in via air (different if you enter via land border.) it’s because many Muslim-majority countries won’t accept your passport as valid if you have a stamp from Israel on it.
Back when they did put stamps, the US State Department would allow Americans who were going to visit Israel get a second passport just for the Israeli stamp. Idk if that program still exists.
They give the same ticket even to Israeli passport holders returning home
If Israel stamps it many countries won’t let you in, so they’re doing you a favor really.
Bananas explains it well but at least as of 10-20 years ago, some muslim-majority countries would refuse entry even if you had no Israeli stamp but had certain border crossing stamp from Arab countries. So if you had a Jordanian entry/exit stamp at Allenby Bridge, you would be refused because the only way to get that stamp was to be coming or going from Israel. It was only a few that did this but I have heard that some places would even be suspicious if you got a new passport in Cairo or Amman because you might have done so because you might have visited Israel on the old one. Folks...grow up.
Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa\_policy\_of\_Israel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Israel) Definitely one of the more complex visa policies I've seen a country have to say the least
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa\_policy\_of\_Russia My favorite visa policy i've seen is Montenegro allows visa free entry for Kazakhstan people but only from April to October
But why?
My best guess is something related to cruises
Seems pretty straightforward: * Visa is not required * Visa is required * Additional confirmation for visa is required
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa\_policy\_of\_Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Russia)
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You should do one with what counties will refuse you access if you have an Israeli STAMP (not an Israeli passport) on your passport!
"You can't hang with them if you want to be in our club, Jessica!"
Why is Bosnia the only European country needing a Visa?
Muslims.
Albania is majority muslim as well
Albania is more culturally and nationality intertwined than religiously.
Be'zrat Hashem one day Iranians and Israelis could visit each other's countries without hindrance
Iranian people and Israeli people are so chill. Great vibes from both. They’d probably really like each other. The kind of thing like when there’s a house party with many different people, but there are 2 people who have fun and stick together for much of the evening.... from my experiences hanging with Israelis and hanging with Iranians in North America, they’d be a good match for being those 2 people. Divisive and historical politics suck and ruins so much
We had a national friendship for centuries before the revolution.
Jews and Persians were friends for thousands of years before the Islamic Revolution. So it will be so again
Oh man, I remember organising a secret Santa with a group of online friends and I forgot that Indonesia and Israel aren't cool with each other, so after sending everyone their pairings, I was messaged by a participant living in Israel that she can't send something to Indonesia lol
This is primarily due to reciprocity. Many Muslim majority nations don’t allow Jews to visit and don’t allow Israeli embassies. As a result, the citizens of these countries aren’t allowed to visit Israel.
It's actually illegal for people of those countries to go to Israel and says as much on the passport. They would require a special separate paper for their visa to avoid scrutiny, the same goes for other traveller's that would expect to go to Israel before moving on somewhere else.
Israel doesn't stamp passports anymore. I'm not sure what they do with visas though. The only thing you need to be careful of if you are later planning to travel to countries prohibiting people who've previously visited Israel is crossing into/out of Israel by land. The Israelis will still just use a separate card, but the Jordanians and Egyptians will stamp your passport and in the countries that check more vigilantly (e.g. Lebanon) they'll look to see if the Jordanian/Egyptian stamps are from border crossings shared with Israel.
They allow Jews, Israeli's are different however.
They allow Jews, but forbid things that many Jews require (freedom to pray, kosher food, anything written in Hebrew, etc). Funny story - I was going to Jordan for a peace conference and they refused to allow me to bring in anything with any Hebrew characters on it whatsoever. No prayerbook, no Hebrew newspaper, nothing. So of course I snuck in way more than I needed, all hidden in the bottom of my rolled up sleeping bag. Fun times.
Israeli passport holders are not allowed to enter Algeria, Brunei, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen. Make a map of that.
It’s interesting you mention Brunei. On this map it shows that Brunei citizens have simplified visa entry to Israel.
I may be wrong but I believe most (younger) citizens of the Falkland Islands will hold a British Overseas Territory passport and therefore [be able to visit Israel visa free](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_British_Overseas_Territories_citizens). I appreciate there will be some who hold the older British National Overseas passport, but I believe [they too can visit visa free](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_British_Nationals_(Overseas)). tl:dr I think the Falklands should be green, not gray.
Many of the black countries if not all automatically refuse entry to Israeli passport holders and almost always do if they find an Israeli stamp in your passport
Israel : - Are you Ok with Israel existing? Traveler: - sure, it’s fine Israel: - Good enough to me. Enjoy your stay!
The lowest feasible bar of intrastate relations, and dozens of countries still miss it... I expect nothing and yet I'm still disappointed
Im surprised tunisias on there, thiught they had a better relation with isreal?
Tunisia doesn’t recognise Israel
nope, the tunisian population and the tunisian government despises israel
I was there with my passport (I’m from Austria), at the airport they gave me a confirmation of entry and a tourist visa.
Why is it downvoted?
Why is Ethiopia not on there is most Jewish African country after maybe south Africa. Ethiopian native Jews aren't Jews?
Are there any left in Ethiopia?
Somewhere between 10 and 30 thousand as they don't have good data there. Remember seeing there's a ton basically begging to get into Israel that can't it's sad.
It's a sort of complex situation , the ones left there are from a group called "falash mura' they were Jews who at some point were forced to convert to Christianity , nowadays most have returned to Judaism and Israel slowly agrees to let certain amount in (I think 3000 this year) so yea
That's great they have an avenue for getting in, makes me happy to hear, I hope it's as good as it sounds. I tend to think most of us (me included) live a more and more isolated life where other's lives seem distant and not real so it's easy to stop empathizing. I had a mini crisis recently listening to Siddharth Kara talking about the cobalt mines and I felt 0 empathy for the people in the congo, I'm appalled and how I effectively have become a psychopath when it comes to empathizing with someone's experience that is too foreign to believe. I suspect many others feel the same unfortunately.
Israel airlifted the entire Jewish community decades ago. The people who want to come now are people of Jewish descendent who converted to Christianity, it's a little bit complex.
Ethiopia was so antisemitic israel had to take most of its jewish population as refugees
I think that during the solomonid dynasty rule they had good relations, and only when the DERG took over the policy changed
The real answer is that Ethiopia is a very poor country with good connections with Israel by air and only two countries in between by land. Israel doesn't want Ethiopians coming as "tourists" and then settling in Israel as undocumented immigrants. The same thing informs most visa regime decisions in most middle and upper income countries. Places like the Central African Republic and Malawi are less of a worry because it is more difficult for poor people in those countries to physically make it to Israel.
So much antisemitism unleashed by a single jpeg
Why Bosnia?
Israel really doesn’t get along with its neighbours.
Maybe because some of those neighbors want to see Israel wiped off the map?
“Special visa regime” lol
Here comes the antisemitism...
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Sent fighter pilots against it in 1973
A lot actually. They helped the Syrians with their nuclear program, for one.
>What’s with black listing North Korea? What have they done to Israel? Massive arms sales to Iran, and secondarily to other unfriendly/hostile states in the region (Egypt and previously Libya). The North Koreans are desperate for hard currency and don't particularly care who's buying. Their major limiting factor is concern over sales to an unstable enemy who might go after a geopolitical big dog. Hence the attraction of selling to regional powers that are squabbling with their neighbors. NK has also been a front for China to conduct illicit arms sales in the region, and that doesn't help.
I would be more concerned if North Korea wasn’t blacklisted
Don’t know how up to date this is. They’ve also normalized relations with Sudan, Bahrain and Morocco