[Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

Wed Aug 11 19:20:38 UTC 2010

As explained on http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visas, there
are various ways to attain a visa entry to Israel even if you live in
a country with no Israeli embassies.
Further to that, there are actually a lot of prominent countries from
which no visa is needed to enter Israel:
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IsraelVisaPolicy.PNG

I really think that theoretical discussions on contrived scenarios on
how to enter Israel are rather inane and do not further the conference
in any way.
We can and will offer specific assistance to people with specific,
concrete difficulties, working with Israeli authorities to achieve the
special exemptions needed for people who actually want to attend the
conference but live in a place that makes it difficult for them to do
so.

Millions of tourists from dozens of counties enter Israel every year
safely and smoothly. Flying to Israel is even considered especially
safe, because of effective security procedures (as opposed to
"security theater").

See y'all in Haifa!

Harel Cain
Wikimania 2011 team

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 August 2010 19:54, Abbas Mahmoud <abbasjnr at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Yaroslav: X has no problem with Israel, there's even an embassy in country X, from which he applied the visa, but since he is on a work permit in the Middle east, the embassy sticks the visa on another paper.  Since the country where he works from isnt in good terms with Israel, he travels to Israel from his homecountry X. Wouldn't the immigration officer in country X bar him passage due to the fact that a visa is only recognised if sticked on a passport, and not a piece of paper?
>
> Why would the embassy give someone a visa in a way they couldn't
> actually use? It would be pointless. Since embassies do hand out visas
> in that manner, we can safely assume airlines accept them.
>
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