The Ongoing Fiasco At Ben Gurion Airport

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Yom Reva’ee

Wednesday

20 Tammuz 5781

June 30 2021

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Quote of the Day

“The government is currently 20 degrees to the right compared to the previous one, and it is dangerous. It will crash if it continues like this.”

Meretz Knesset Legislator Musi Raz discussing the apparent compromise at Evyatar (see article below)

Is a crack already forming in the new Coalition government? We have previously wondered in OneIsrael what would happen on the morning after the new government was formed and its leftist members (such as Musi Raz) awoke to find a government in place which is further to the “right” than the Netanyahu government ever was.

The News on the Israeli Street

Palestinian terror in the last 48 hours . . .

Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis with Molotovs and “rocks” on the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road near Beit Omer, at Hizma (bus driver was wounded), at Singil northeast of Ramallah, al-Khader, on Road 465 with the Bir Zeit Bridge, Tapuach, at the northern entrance to Levona, between Tapuach and Migdalot, and at the small Yakir Junction among at least two dozen locations.

On the Evyatar front . . .

The hilltop community of Evyatar.

We reported as good news two days ago that the fledgling Jewish community of Evyatar in Samaria was not going to be forcibly evacuated. More than 2000 Civil Administration officials, Border Policemen, and policemen had stood ready to do just that.

However, now we are not so sure about the “good news.”

Apparently, what the residents of the community have agreed to is to leave the community in return for a promise from our so-called “Defense Minister” Benny Gantz that during the course of the next few months, the government will review the legal status of the land and if it discovers that the land is “state land”, then a yeshiva and an IDF outpost will move into the buildings already there.

This “sounds good”, but all of us in Israel know what a promise from Benny Gantz and the Israeli government is worth in Judea and Samaria.

Absolutely nothing.

Israeli hoteliers raise prices exorbitantly . . .

It is bad enough that Israelis are forced to pay outrageous prices because they are at the mercy of monopolistic families that control everything from clothing chains to car dealerships to supermarkets. 
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For example, your humble servant bought a Honda CRV in California last year for about $28,000. The same car in Israel costs about $68,000 (220,000 shekels). This kind of markup occurs whether one is buying a can of tuna fish or a pair of blue jeans. 

But now, Israeli hotels are also putting the squeeze on Israelis knowing that they are basically trapped (very difficult to leave the country and get back in because of Corona). Some of the price gouging taking place for a couple with 2 children including breakfast:

4 nights at the Sheba Hotel in Eilat: 10,671 shekels ($3,283)

3 nights at the Royal Beach Hotel in Eilat: 10,970 shekels ($3,375)

3 nights at the Isrotel Dead Sea Hotel: 7,915 shekels ($2,435)

4 nights at the Stay Hotel in Tiberias: 18,753 shekels ($5,770)

All of these prices are 50% rise over prices this time last year.

TODAY’S BLOG:

The Ongoing Fiasco at Ben Gurion Airport

Yesterday, your humble servant and his wife had to pass through Ben Gurion Airport en route to a 4 day travel outside the country. 

Everything was going smoothly until we got to the check-in counter. At that point, we were informed that we needed to present a declaration obtained from the Health Ministry allowing us to leave.

This was after my wife had called the Health Ministry 8 hours before and was told that no such declaration was needed. Fortunately, at the entrance to the airport lobby, a hastily constructed kiosk was handing out the forms so we had to rush out to get ones, fill them out, then fight our way back through all the security to the check in counter.

Once we were back there, we pulled out the results of the negative Corona test we had taken the day before at considerable time and money expense–only to be told that we didn’t need to have the test because the country we were going to is not “red.”

Unbelievable.

At any rate, we finally got through and three hours later were where we are now.

Other travelers in Ben Gurion yesterday were not so lucky. Eight Israelis who had already boarded their Aeroflot flight to Russia were pulled off the plane and not allowed to fly because they had not obtained the proper Health Ministry exemption necessary to fly to a “red” country.

Passengers arriving in Israel without being checked for Corona; passengers arriving in Israel and getting a Corona test and still waiting 12 days afterwards for the result; continual confusion over what forms need to be filled out to exit the country; continual confusion over who needs to show a negative Corona test result and who doesn’t: the situation at Ben Gurion Airport is an ongoing fiasco.