Jerusalem, 21 December, 2025 (TPS-IL) — Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority reported today that in the past 24 hours, 16 Georgian passengers who were expected to fly from Sochi to Israel were prevented from boarding a flight. Four other Georgian travelers were refused entry into the country.
The background to preventing their arrival is an alert from the Population and Immigration Authority’s border control center, which processed the passengers’ data, which raised serious concerns that they were coming for the purpose of settling down and not tourism.
In light of the aforementioned information, Border Control informed the airline that the passengers should not be allowed to board the flight.
A few hours later, border controllers at Ben Gurion Airport located four Georgian passengers who had landed at Ben Gurion Airport with the aim of infiltrating. In this case too, it was the work of the border controllers, in cooperation with the hotline employees, that made it possible to locate them and deny them entry.