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These other answers are all lovely, and I agree in principle, but the simple fact of the matter is that this scenario is now impossible, and has been for a number of years (since 2013 at Ben Gurion airport and almost as long at other border crossings.)Nowadays Israel issues a visa card, instead.Your passport is not modified in any way.Background source: The Israeli Passport Stamp | Tourist Israel

A card can fit in your wallet, like the European identity card, US Border Crossing Card ( for Mexican nationals ), or a US passport card.A passport won’t last too long in your pocket.A passport also has a limited number of spaces to carry visas ( when needed) and entry stamps. Given that , it’s better to use a passport for those countries which don’t accept a European identity card ( or other similar identification cards), and use ID cards when possible.

I’ve answered variations on this question a couple of other times.First, to be factually correct, there were not a record low number of EWIs (entry without inspection—the technical term for illegal border crossings) under Obama. What is true are two facts: (1) the number of people entering the US illegally went down almost every year under Obama and (2) we’ve had a reverse flow of Mexicans under Obama (for every Mexican in the US illegally, 2 were leaving under Obama). Meanwhile, to generalize, things have gotten worse under Trump. I say “to generalize” because a lot depends upon when you measure and what you measure. For instance, the number of families from Central America seeking asylum is higher in 3 years of Trump then it was under 16 total years of Bush and Obama. So some months EWIs have gone down under Trump. But for the most part EWIs have gone up in his 3 years.You can agree or disagree with Trump’s philosophy regarding illegal immigration. And I suspect I’ll get some Trump supporters railing about how Democrats are supporters of “open borders” and we should “enforce the law”—that’s rhetoric (and incorrect rhetoric) or why a wall is the only answer. Separate the rhetoric and look at the data. Things have mostly gotten worse under Trump. And the OP is asking why. Here is the explanation to the question:Bush created programs for Central America aimed at encouraging people to stay in their country. Obama took those programs and expanded them and sophisticated them. They work—in every neighborhood they were used in, gang activity went down, gang killings went down, death squad activity went down, death squad killings went down, and the number of people leaving to come to the US went down. Trump took those programs and cut them, cut them again, and then eliminated them. Step away from partisan politics for a second and just think of quality control or root cause analysis—you want to solve a problem, you address the root cause. The Bush-Obama programs did that (at least for asylum seekers in Central America): https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-officials-said-aid-to-el-salvador-helped-slow-migration-now-trump-is-canceling-it/2019/04/01/5a8ca570-540a-11e9-aa83-504f086bf5d6_story.html and https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1866/CARSI%20IE%20Executive%20Summary.pdfTrump and many of his supporters are repeating a dishonest narrative about people entering the country. And while it’s convenient to claim they’re all gang members, they’re coming just to get on welfare, they’re being paid to come by Soros or Democrats, Obama did the same thing, yada, yada, yada, the problem with telling a story that isn’t true is that you create policies that don’t address the problem and then either don’t solve it or make it worse. For instance, the Trump Administration has taken a number of actions (like raising the fee to apply for a visa, jailing everyone who is an EWI, raising the fee for seeking asylum) because those actions fit the narrative that people coming here are just lazy or looking for a cheap handout. The reality is that violence is driving the asylum seekers from Central America—when violence goes up (due to a Civil War or increased gang activity), we see more asylum seekers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/its-so-dangerous-to-police-ms-13-in-el-salvador-that-officers-are-fleeing-the-country/2019/03/03/e897dbaa-2287-11e9-b5b4-1d18dfb7b084_story.html If you can’t access that article, what it says is that gang violence in Central America is so bad, we’re seeing police officers show up at our border seeking asylum. Remember this very logical point—if the flood from Central America was due just to poverty or seeking welfare or “free schooling”, why would it spike under Trump? It should be constant for the past 3 decades (heck—century), because Central America has always been poor for a century or longer. But we don’t see a constant number of people coming from Central America—it goes up or down based on the violence there. Reduce the violence and more people stay home. That’s not a theory, it’s a fact—it’s been proven over the past 5 decades.Trump and his administration have mostly focused on the border. That’s misguided. The lines like “first secure the border” or “border security” have a nice ring to them but they are increasingly less relevant. Drug smugglers don’t walk across the border—they go through legal checkpoints or fly drugs in or use boats. There is no record of a single terrorist sneaking across our southern border (those that have entered the US—look at the 9/11 hijackers—did so by plane and legally). And now, 65% of people who have entered the US in the past 7–8 years and are here illegally, entered legally. They came in legally and then overstayed their visa: Visa overstays outnumber illegal border crossings; trend likely to continue And this problem is only going to increase (as climate change produces more migrants from Asia and Africa).Specific actions by Trump have made issues worse—significantly worse. Remember the government shutdown because Trump wasn’t getting the House and Senate to fund his wall? Well, that shut down the immigration courts (which pushed those cases schedule for those dates back a full year or longer). It shut down the E-verify system (which made it okay, provided a legal “out” to hire illegal workers). The decision to detain asylum seekers, to criminalize everything, to separate children—it’s created a humanitarian crisis that didn’t exist prior to this.The Trump Administration has taken actions that have increased the incentives for people to enter illegally rather than legally. For instance, the metering system where they force asylum applicants to stay in foreign countries and wait as long as a year just to get their case heard has created an incentive for people to enter illegally: https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/sites/default/files/December_Border_Report.pdf The Trump Administration has done away with the Green Card lottery and has slashed the number of Visa officers at Embassies. For instance, it’s now a 2 year wait just to APPLY for a visa in Cuba. As a result, we’re now seeing Cubans turn up in Mexico on the border. He’s slashed the number of legal immigrants allowed in to the US. He’s made it harder to qualify for asylum. The end result of all of that is some people who held out hope “maybe I’ll be able to get a green card” and after a couple of years they got in to the University or fell in love and lost interest in leaving their country—but the HOPE, the POSSIBILITY kept them from coming illegally—instead those folks are now feeling like there is no hope unless they come illegally.The Trump Administration isn’t penalizing employers who hire undocumented individuals. The Obama Administration went after employers who hired illegal workers. The Trump Administration has taken the reverse strategy. Remember those chicken processing plants in Mississippi in which over 600 people were arrested for deportation? Well, there were no fines, no penalties, no citations, no jail time for any plant managers, HR staff, or owners: Documents: Owners of raided Mississippi plants ‘willfully’ used ineligible workers Here’s the deal: the vast majority of people coming to this country illegally or as asylum seekers are either looking for work or trying to escape violence in their home country. You want to stop it—address the violence (Bush and Obama did, Trump hasn’t) or make it hard for them to work (Obama did, Trump did the reverse). As long as employers know they can do this and not go to jail, they’ll keep hiring. And that creates an incentive for people to enter illegally.Last of all, the Trump Administration just isn’t very competent on this issue. At a similar point in the Obama Administration, they had deported over twice as many detainees at the Trump Administration has to a similar period. And get this: over 70% of the people being jailed (ie: they’re actually in prison) have no prior criminal record prior to being jailed and most of them of them having been in jail (at taxpayer expense) over a year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/the-trump-administrations-immigration-jails-are-packed-but-deportations-are-lower-than-in-obama-era/2019/11/17/27ad0e44-f057-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.htmlThe Trump Administration’s rhetoric plays well with his base who believe he’s being “tough” on illegals and they buy the rhetoric about “open borders” and nonsense like that. The reality is that the Trump Administration is badly mishandling immigration issues and thus making things worse.