JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israel has lodged an official complaint with Jordan over the repeated harassment of religious Jewish tourists at border crossings, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said Tuesday.
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The protest expressed in a letter from Foreign Minister Eli Cohen came two weeks after a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews said they were asked to cut off their sidelocks after being detained for two days at the Jordanian side of the Yitzhak Rabin/Wadi Araba border crossing north of Eilat. It also follows multiple reports of Jordanian authorities refusing to allow religious Jews to enter with religious objects.
“It is beyond the pale that Israelis will be humiliated at the crossings to Jordan and their entry denied only because they are religious Jews,” Cohen said.
Israel’s top diplomat said that he was working with the Jordanian embassy in Israel and Jordanian authorities to find a solution to thousands of religious Israelis who are interested in visiting Jordan but are prevented from entering because they carry tefillin (phylacteries) prayer shawls or holy books.
In the latest incident, the Jewish tourists said that the Jordanian guards at the Yitzhak Rabin crossing who asked them to cut off their traditional side curls told them that it was safer for them not to be visibly Jewish in the kingdom.
Why are religious Jews going to Jordan? Is there no where in EY where they can travel to?
If you haven’t been to Dubai, Morocco and now Jordan, you’re a schnorrer.
Do the same to them
No clue what people are looking to see in this desert non productive so called monarchy מלך אביון
Most of the Jews going to Jordan are on their way to/from Israel. Its a short trip and often a cheaper trip to go via Amman.
“In the latest incident, the Jewish tourists said that the Jordanian guards at the Yitzhak Rabin crossing who asked them to cut off their traditional side curls told them that it was safer for them not to be visibly Jewish in the kingdom.”
It would likely be common sense to not be visibly Jewish in a country that hates the Zionists and falsely believes the Zionist lie that Zionists represent Judaism.
*The protest expressed in a letter from Foreign Minister Eli Cohen* OMG the Israel Foreign minister’s name is Eli Cohen – that should get the Jordanians attention.