Travel Syria-Israel

No, you can't fly from Damascus to Tel Aviv! And if the Syrians have reason to believe that you are planning a trip to Israel, tomorrow, next year, any time, they won't let you in. This means that if they find a guidebook to Israel, or a return ticket from Tel Aviv, in your luggage, you will be denied entry to Syria.

And yet again, this one is asked at least once a week... you can enter Israel with a Syrian stamp. Although obviously you can't cross directly from Syria to Israel, you can go via Jordan. Israel doesn't bar entry based solely on where you have been. You will be asked a lot of seemingly ridiculous questions. Answer them all truthfully. If you were in Syria as a genuine tourist you will be allowed in.

-whereismad .....BMI issue e- tickets, consider flying from the UK with BMI with an ''open jaw '' ticket out of Heathrow to Damascus and return from Tel-Aviv back to Heathrow. Before you leave the UK get a ''multi entry'' Syrian visa. This will enable you to do (if you have spare time) a side trip to Lebanon (visa at border). Returning back into Syria. From Syria enter into Jordan, and exit Jordan in the south out of Aqaba into Israel through the Aqaba/Eilat border. (The Israeli immigration is much much more chilled in the Aqaba/ Eilat border). Whichever way you enter Israel, you wil be questioned. Israel probably has over 1,000 backpackers/ tourists arriving on their border, that have come from Syria indirectly via Jordan each year. The Israeli's really need to know who you are, where you have been, and if they don't like your attitude and your replies, who you have spoken to.

I second Shuffaluff. Do not take anything related to Israel (plane ticket, guidebook, shekels...) with you when entering Syria. Upon entering Israel, be read for long, long and dumb questionning about what you did in Syria, but they'll let you enter eventually.