Israeli stamp in passport - hassles in KL?

Thanks for all your replies... really appreciate you taking the trouble to respond.

We will try to take the ferry - if this doesn't work out and we have to go overland we'll just hope that there is no need for us to go to a muslim country in the next 3 years... which is when our passports expire.

We've been to KL numerous times and yes you're right we haven't needed a visa so I guess that means they don't look too closely at the stamps ... duh!

However, the front page is looked at pretty thoroughly - hence the hassle they give me for having been born in Sri Lanka. Very annoying.

Thanks once again!

We will try to take the ferry - if this doesn't work out and we have to go overland we'll just hope that there is no need for us to go to a muslim country in the next 3 years... which is when our passports expire.

Syria used to be the most full on country about this rule. I heard stories of travellers being kicked out of the country over things like having Israeli stamps in their youth hostel books (or something along those lines). I also remember a lot of odd people coming up to us and trying to get us to stay we had been in Israel. The travellers code word for Israel was 'Disneyland' at that time as you never knew who was listening in. If that sounds OTT, Syria really was a very odd place back then (early 90s). I don't know if this is still the case.

We entered Israel over the river from Jordan and the officials at that entry point were quite happy to stamp our visa on a piece of paper. Everyone was doing the same thing so it wasn't out of ordinary at all. We then entered Egypt overland from Eilat and had no issue there.

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