{"id":1159,"date":"2017-06-19T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/new\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2017-07-14T08:20:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:20:56","slug":"israelis-barred-from-entering-jordan-with-jewish-religious-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/19\/israelis-barred-from-entering-jordan-with-jewish-religious-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Israelis Barred from Entering Jordan with Jewish Religious Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; font-family: 'open sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Jordanian authorities at the Israel-Jordan border again prevented Israelis from entering the country with religious objects used on a daily basis by Orthodox\u00a0Jews.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr id=\"system-readmore\" class=\"mceItemReadMore\" \/>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; font-family: 'open sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;\">A Jewish family from Jerusalem that wanted to tour Jordan informed the Israeli Foreign Ministry that when they were about to enter the country via the Yitzhak Rabin Border Terminal near Eilat, they were asked to remove their yarmulkes and leave them with the Jordanian guards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; font-family: 'open sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;\">Another Israeli who crossed the border the same day was asked not to bring his tefillin (prayer phylacteries) with him. Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said in response to the claims that the ministry would discuss the incidents in which \u201critual objects were confiscated from Israelis by Jordanian police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; font-family: 'open sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;\">Nahshon said that \u201cone option that will be examined is to hold a friendly conversation with the Jordanian ambassador.\u201d The events are the latest in a string of similar incidents in which Jordan prevented Israelis from carrying Jewish ritual objects such as tefillin, prayer shawls, and yarmulkes into the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hidden-print hidden-phone\" style=\"font-family: 'open sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; min-height: 90px; margin: 10px 0px; clear: both; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-weight: 600;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/Jewish.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; font-family: 'open sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; font-family: 'open sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; font-family: 'open sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;\"><em>By: Israel Hayom\/Exclusive to JNS.org<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; font-family: 'open sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordanian authorities at the Israel-Jordan border again prevented Israelis from entering the country with religious objects used on a daily basis by Orthodox\u00a0Jews. A Jewish family from Jerusalem that wanted to tour Jordan informed the Israeli Foreign Ministry that when they were about to enter the country via the Yitzhak Rabin Border Terminal near Eilat,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5328,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/5328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}