The United States, Canada, and Germany will be added to Israel's "red list" of places it will not allow its citizens or residents to travel to.
The move goes into effect at midnight on December 22. The US, Canada and Germany are included in the list.
Israel has seen an increase in cases recently. The country has put in travel restrictions to get ahead of the Omicron variant, which is suspected of being more contagious than previous versions, as of December 20.
According to Haaretz, 15 percent of new infections have come from abroad, including an instance where 17 passengers on a flight from Miami tested positive for the Omicron variant.
In the past week, 5,787 new coronaviruses cases were reported, of which some 15 percent came from abroad.
Israel was praised as an example of a successful vaccine roll out. Israel requires a Green Pass for indoor gatherings with more than 50 people. The Green Pass shows if a person has been tested for coronaviruses or not.
Israel assigns a country to the red list if the rate of infections among travelers arriving from that location over the past month is more than 2 percent.
Israeli citizens returning from red list countries are required to go into full isolation regardless of their vaccination status or recovery from the virus.
14 days is considered full isolation. If the traveler takes two tests, one upon arrival and one on day 7 of isolation, they can be tested negative for both and be released from isolation.
The country has an Exceptions Committee that reviews requests for travel on a case-by-case basis if you have an exception.
