The decision also applies to recoverers, where the problem is even more complicated. Recoverers may get a positive answer to a corona test even months after recovery, although in practice they are not contagious. This can create a situation where a recovering person left the country for a vacation abroad, 72 hours before the flight he performed a corona test and received a positive answer, which will prevent him from entering Israel even though in practice, he had recovered from a corona a few weeks earlier.
Both recovering and vaccinated people who receive a negative answer in a test performed abroad will have to perform another corona test in Israel, immediately after landing. If their test result is positive, they will have to stay in home isolation and not in a hotel, Or vaccinated.
The most significant benefit for recovering and vaccinated people when it comes to returning from abroad is the matter of isolation. A recovering or vaccinated person who receives a negative answer in both tests, completely exempt from isolation, whoever is not vaccinated or recovered, will have to complete ten days in isolation at the hotel.
Sources in the tourism industry are angry about the decision and claim, “It will significantly hurt the Passover holidays, Israelis will not rush to fly for a weekend abroad when they have to stop in the middle, perform a corona test, hope the answer is negative, return to Israel, do another test, pay for the test abroad.” “And all this for a few days. There were promises that vaccinated people would be exempt, but unfortunately that does not happen.”