denials. Visa Waiver Program Israel applied to join the US government's Visa Waiver Program in 2005. Under this program, citizens of selected countries can enter the United States for up to 90 days for tourism and business purposes without having to apply for an entry visa. The House of Representatives approved the bid, but the Senate rejected it. Israel failed to fulfill two basic requirements; not all citizens owning a biometric passport, and the entry visa rejection rate for Israelis exceeded 3%. In addition, the United States insisted that Palestinian Americans entering Israel not be subjected to any more security checks than other US citizens. In January 2013, a new bill was submitted to the House calling for Israel's inclusion, with its supporters saying Israel now meets the program's current criteria. As of 2014, Israel regularly bars the entry of American citizens. See also Boycotts of Israel#United States Israel lobby in the United States Israel–Russia relations Israeli Americans Lavon Affair The Apollo Affair IMI Desert Eagle Iron Dome America–Israel Friendship League United States Ambassador to Israel United States security assistance to the Palestinian National Authority International recognition of Israel References Bibliography "Israeli-United States Relations" Almanac of Policy Issues Ball, George W. and Douglas B. Ball. The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement With Israel, 1947 to the Present. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992. () Rudolph, Laura C. "Israeli Americans." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, edited by Thomas Riggs, (3rd ed., vol. 2, Gale, 2014), pp. 493–503. online Further reading Bass, Warren. Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the US-Israel Alliance. (Oxford UP, 2003) Benson, Michael T. Harry S. Truman and the founding of Israel (Greenwood, 1997). Caspit, Ben. The Netanyahu Years (2017) excerpt Feis, Herbert. The birth of Israel: the tousled diplomatic bed (1969) online Friedman, Robert O. Israel and the United States: Six Decades of US-Israeli Relations (2012) Excerpt Gilboa, E. . "Obama in Israel: Fixing American-Israeli Relations". Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, (2013) 7#2:19–28 Goldberg, Joseph E. An Historical Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1996) Goldman, Zachary K. "Ties that bind: John F. Kennedy and the foundations of the American–Israeli alliance: The Cold War and Israel." Cold War History 9.1 (2009): 23–58. Hummel, Daniel G. Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2019); online review. Judis, John B.: Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict. (Farrar, Straus