{"id":256024,"date":"2026-08-19T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/256024\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:33:09","slug":"malta-to-recognize-israeli-travel-documents-in-addition-to-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/256024\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta to recognize Israeli travel documents in addition to passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malta has decided to recognize all Israeli travel documents, Israeli Foreign Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/gideon-saar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gideon Sa&#8217;ar<\/a> announced Wednesday following a discussion with his Maltese counterpart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;This important step will enable all Israelis who wish to travel to beautiful Malta to do so,&#8221; said Sa&#8217;ar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Israel warmly welcomes this decision, and I thank Minister Chris Fearne for his efforts in making it possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israelis have, until now, been able to travel to the European nation with a passport. Now, Israelis with an alternative to a passport can also travel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/malta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Teudat Ma\u2019avar &#8211; the Israeli Travel Document in Lieu of National Passport &#8211; is not automatically treated by every country as equivalent to an Israeli passport.<\/p>\n<p>For years, Malta was the one Schengen country that did not recognize this Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/travel\/article-905765\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">travel<\/a> document.<\/p>\n<p>A report by Henley Global in January 2026, citing International Air Transport Association (IATA) data, said the Israeli Travel Document in Lieu of National <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/travel\/article-903319\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Passport<\/a> is accepted for visa-free entry by all Schengen Area member states except Malta.<\/p>\n<p>The Jerusalem Post reached out to the Malta MOFA regarding the reason behind the change.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malta has decided to recognize all Israeli travel documents, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa&#8217;ar announced Wednesday following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[54,5740,37,35117,4591,462],"class_list":["post-256024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-europe","tag-gideon-saar","tag-israel","tag-malta","tag-passport","tag-travel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117121961346779192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}