Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA) Improvements

American Citizen Parents: Will your child be born overseas? If so, see the link below for new details about the redesigned Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA), the official record confirming that a child born abroad acquired U.S. citizenship at birth.

More info about how to apply for a CRBA at Embassy Tel Aviv is available on our website at: http://israel.usembassy.gov/consular/acs/crbahowtoapply.html.

Travel Warnings for U.S. Citizens

American citizens in Israel should regularly monitor the Embassy’s website http://israel.usembassy.gov/, and the Department of State’s website www.travel.state.gov, where travel warnings and country specific information may be found. Travel warnings are issued when long-term, protracted conditions that make a country dangerous or unstable lead the State Department to recommend that Americans avoid or consider the risk of travel to that country.

To subscribe to warden messages from the U.S. Embassy, go to the following link and enter your email address: http://israel.usembassy.gov/service/subscribe2.html. To read recent Warden Messages, visit http://israel.usembassy.gov/warden_message.html.

Consular Section Visits Kfar Chabad

Consular Section staff visit the “770”
replica of the Lubvavitch headquarters.

Staff from the Embassy’s Consular Section visited Kfar Chabad on Dec. 3, 2010, to learn more about the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Each year, the Consular Section issues visas to thousands of Israelis traveling to visit or study at the Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, New York.

The Consular Section visited the replica of the Lubavitch headquarters “770,” where staff learned about the life of Rebbe Lubavitch. Next, staff visited the Roeber Company for a demonstration of the binding and imprinting of leather torah covers. Staff also learned about the agricultural side of Kfar Chabad by touring the town’s etrog orchards.

The visit concluded with a tour of Ohr Simcha, a home for at-risk children, where staff enjoyed a kosher lunch and discussed the origins and philosophies of chabad with the hosts of the visit, Rabbi Benjamin Lifshitz, mayor of Kfar Chabad, and Rabbi Slavin, director of Ohr Simcha.

To see more photos from the visit, check out our Facebook album.

Vice Consul Speaks to Israeli-Arab Students in Jaffa

On Dec. 1, 2010, a Vice Consul spoke to Israeli-Arab students at the Tabeetha School in Jaffa about student visas and study opportunities in the United States.

In partnership with EducationUSA and the American Corner Jaffa, the program helped explain the college application process and the student visa application process to many students who had never traveled to the U.S. before.

The event responds to Secretary Clinton's recent video message about International Education Week, in which she stressed the importance of promoting study in the United States to underrepresented populations.

Consular Section Combats Visa Fraud with Social Media Outreach Tour at Israeli Universities

Embassy staff answer visa questions at
Hebrew University, Nov. 30, 2010.

This fall, the Consular Section launched a social media outreach tour to combat  visa fraud. Staff visited several Israeli universities to speak to young people about visas and correct common misperceptions about traveling, working and studying in the United States. 

The tour included a visit to Haifa University on Oct. 19, Ben Gurion University on Nov. 1 and Hebrew University on Nov. 30.

In addition to answering students’ visa questions face-to-face in each university’s student union building, Embassy staff live “tweeted” the students’ questions on Twitter and encouraged them to become fans of the Consular Section’s Facebook page.