'Most pro-Israel administration evah' presides over 80% rise in rejection of Israeli visa requests

The year 2013 saw an 80% increase in rejections of Israeli applications for tourist visas to the United States. Israel's foreign ministry thinks that the cause is political.

The figures, which were published Monday morning in Yediot Aharonot,
show that last year about 125,000 Israelis requested tourist visas to
the US, with 9.7% of them being refused. The previous year in 2012, that
figure