JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Workers at Ben-Gurion airport rubbed their eyes in amazement as two apparently chareidi women disembarked from a flight from Georgia on Friday evening, well after Shabbat entered. The workers’ suspicions were alerted by the two women, dressed modestly and wearing headscarves but arriving on Shabbat
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After border control officers checked their passports more closely, they realized that the two women were not chareidi but rather Georgian imposters dressed up as chareidim in order to enter Israel and obtain a work permit. The women, aged 59 and 41, were refused entry to Israel.
In the last few months, many Georgian citizens have been arriving with tourist visas intending to assimilate into the Israeli public and work illegally under the radar in Israel. A number of them have dressed up as airport workers including wearing fake worker’s badges and similar uniforms. Passport control has identified these imposters but was surprised to see the current women dressed as chareidim yet arriving on Friday night.
20 other passengers were also apprehended for attempting to enter Israel for illegal purposes and were returned to their country of origin.
Always something to keep in mind with Israeli security. Unlike in the USA they don’t target items, they look at the person. The USA they’ll look at your shoes but over there though talk to you see how you respond. They’ll look at you. Much better that way!
Maybe they were trying to harvest votes for the December 6 Senate runoff election.
Why are flights landing on Shabbat???
Why “shock” instead of shocking in the title?
interesting. and if they had arrived on a different flight, not during shabbat, they would have gotten away with it?
You know there was a time when the Jewish people were also running away from persecution or trying to feed their families. Racmanim bnei Racmanim.
They should have instead dressed as avreichim and said they intend to never enter the workforce.