Joshua Shuman 12/20/2020 British, Danish and South African travelers forbidden entry to Israel, while some European countries also bar Britons Starting Sunday, Israel is lighting up the entire world in red. Not in honor of Christmas later this week, but rather in dealing with the potential dangers a new variant of the COVID-19 virus may carry. On Sunday, Israel’s corona cabinet decided that all arrivals from the UK, Denmark and South Africa will be required to move into “corona hotels” for a 14-day quarantine, or if the returning Israeli completes two negative coronavirus tests, the quarantine will be shortened to 10 days.