Israeli envoy lobbies for PH lifting of travel alert status

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Newly-installed Israel Ambassador to Manila Dana Kursh is urging the Philippines to lift its current travel alert order on Israel, assuring that the country is “safe” despite an ongoing conflict with neighboring Gaza. (via Raymund Antonio | MB)  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/10/09/israeli-envoy-lobbies-for-ph-lifting-of-travel-alert-status  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com @manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00Will the Israeli government recommend or request the Philippine government to lower the current travel alert status of Filipinos going to Israel?

00:12Is that something that you are currently studying or have been requesting, if you could enlighten us?

00:18First of all, we are requesting it all the time.

00:21This morning, my deputy and myself have met your Under-Secretary in Helena Penapega.

00:28A wonderful hospitality session that we had the first time I met her, but I really felt, again, the smile that comes from the heart.

00:37And I raised this issue with her again, and I told her I would like interns of applicants to come to Israel.

00:44There are voices, concrete voice of peace.

00:47Please, if you assess, ask your ambassador in Israel, Ambassador Aileen, please elevate the travel to advisory.

00:56I can tell you that many nations around here, Thailand and other nations, have already elevated them.

01:03And I know that even here you can speak with other of your colleagues.

01:06Some of them had only two months ago been to Israel.

01:09And I'm going again at the beginning of November.

01:11So, again, it's the same way.

01:13Again, I'm not on the degree of Avenue of Earthway.

01:17He's not seen enough to work.

01:20But it's the same depictions in the outside.

01:24It's a catastrophe zone, whether it's war, whether it's an earthquake, and I can't come.

01:30Yes, you can come, and we have to come.

01:32We have to celebrate, we have to get our connection.

01:34And I do hope and pray that the secretary of BFA, secretary Teresa, will decide, will evaluate the situation together with our master.

01:44And that these voices of hope and of peace will be translated to elevation of this opportunity.

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