Stuart Winer is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.
Passengers walk in the arrivals hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport on March 8, 2021 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
The government on Sunday decided to allow Israelis to arrive from any destination with the aim of enabling citizens to reach the country in time for next week’s elections.
Previously, Israelis could only take incoming flights from a shortlist of destinations in the US, Europe, and the Far East.
However, the government kept in place a limit of no more than 3,000 arrivals each day, a restriction aimed at preventing new mutations of the virus from coming in with travelers.