{"id":312857,"date":"2026-02-27T10:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/312857\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:45:18","slug":"us-updates-travel-advisory-to-israel-recommends-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/312857\/","title":{"rendered":"US updates travel advisory to Israel, recommends departure"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee<\/a> told US Embassy staff who wish to leave to “do so TODAY,\u201d the New York Times reported on Friday.<\/p>\n

Huckabee informed staff in an email that was sent out at 12:04 a.m., urging them to book a flight anywhere they could.<\/p>\n

There move \u201cwill likely result in high demand for airline seats today,\u201d he wrote. \u00a0\u201cFocus on getting a seat to anyplace from which you can then continue travel to DC, but the first priority will be getting expeditiously out of country.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also stated that he would be hosting a town-hall meeting at 12:30 p.m. to provide additional information.<\/p>\n

The United States has authorized the departure of non-essential government workers and their families from Israel, a State Department handout announced on Friday.<\/p>\n

The State Department also advised US citizens against traveling to Israel.<\/p>\n

The handout suggests that US citizens should “consider leaving Israel while commercial flights<\/a> are available.”<\/p>\n

Several countries<\/a> have called for their citizens to leave or not travel to the Middle East in recent days, as tensions between Iran and the US continue to rise.<\/p>\n

Canada issued a warning urging all citizens to leave Iran on Friday, cautioning that commercial flight options may be limited.<\/p>\n

The Australian<\/a> government told dependents of Australian diplomats in Israel and Lebanon to leave the two countries, citing a deteriorating security situation in the region. It also offered voluntary departures to Australian diplomats’ dependents in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Qatar.<\/p>\n

Other countries cautioning their citizens to avoid or leave the area in the last few months include Finland, Serbia, Poland, Sweden, India, Cyprus, Singapore, Germany, and Brazil.<\/p>\n

Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told US Embassy staff who wish to leave to “do so TODAY,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37187,85,46,43,13931,92984,1032],"class_list":{"0":"post-312857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-flights","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-state-department","13":"tag-travel-warning","14":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}