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Travellers paying for mandatory covid-19 tests?
Travellers returning to Israel are likely going to have to start paying for their mandatory COVID-19 test.
A source at the airport told The Jerusalem Post that a decision on requiring customer payment is imminent.
The source said that this could change in a week or six months.
At Ben-Gurion airport, Check2Fly conduct the COVID-19 tests.
Since the company began offering testing at the airport in November, it has been charging to screen outgoing passengers.
Even if they are vaccinated – People who enter Israel are required to have taken a coronavirus test within 72 hours of boarding the airplane and to be screened again on arrival.