Visa requirements for Israeli citizens

Israeli citizens can enter all 29 Schengen states without a visa, for up to 90 days in any 180-day period across the whole area.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Israel and 100 of them let each other’s citizens in without a visa obtained in advance (visa-free, on arrival or with an ETA; an e-visa counts as a visa).

1 country asks holders of the Israeli passport for a visa beforehand, although its own citizens enter Israel without one: Australia.

The reverse holds for 40 countries: holders of the Israeli passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Israel (Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and 35 others).

15 countries ask holders of the Israeli passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 5 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Israel.

10 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Israel, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Israel, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Turkey (5) and Syria (2).

The United States refused 11% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Israel in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 35 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 161 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Israel refused 18% of short-stay visa applications in 2025 (all Schengen consulates worldwide: 15%). Among the 74 countries where they received at least 10,000 applications, that is the 37th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Israeli passport

By continent, the Israeli passport is visa-free in 45 countries in Europe, 27 countries in the Americas, 16 countries in Asia, 11 countries in Africa and 6 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Israeli citizens are allowed in Georgia (360 days), Barbados (180 days), Costa Rica (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Mexico (180 days) and Peru (180 days).

Visa on arrival

Israeli citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti and 22 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Israeli citizens enter Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and 24 others. Canada, Ivory Coast, Kenya, New Zealand, Saint Kitts and Nevis, the United Kingdom and the United States ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Where Israeli citizens are not admitted

According to the visa data used here, Israeli citizens are currently not admitted to Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia and 5 others.

Israel’s neighbours

Palestine admits Israeli citizens without a visa. For the other neighbours, the rules are: Syria (no admission), Jordan (visa on arrival for up to 30 days), Lebanon (no admission) and Egypt (visa required).

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Jordanian passport ranks 165th (50 destinations), the Egyptian passport ranks 168th (49 destinations), the Lebanese passport ranks 179th (44 destinations), the Palestinian passport ranks 192nd (36 destinations) and the Syrian passport ranks 198th (26 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 101 need an ETA and 97 need an e-Visa for Israel.