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2015-01-01 Arabia

Saudi Arabia: Israelis banned, but Jews now allowed to work here

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-01-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Trailing Wife,
This is not exactly new. I new a fellow student in grad school (1980's) who was Jewish and had worked in the Yemeni and Syrian oil fields. He just stuck close to the oil company facilities and kept a low profile.

Al

Posted by frozen al 2015-01-01 14:36|| 2015-01-01 14:36|| Front Page Top

#2 One could get into Saudi Arabia in the '80s if discrete as well, Frozen Al, though it was forbidden. The problem is that a) I sometimes forget to be to keep my mouth shut, and b) Mr. Wife loathed the place. But the article states that Jewishness is now legal there for foreigners, though Israeliness is still not... presumably for Christian and Muslim Israelis as well.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-01-01 20:31|| 2015-01-01 20:31|| Front Page Top

#3 It is interesting that they also ban people who have an Israeli visa stamp on their passport. When I visited Israel in 2011, I noted that they did not stamp my passport.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-01-01 20:44|| 2015-01-01 20:44|| Front Page Top

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