Jordan Travel Forum

I'm travelling to Jordan for 10 days but am thinking of visiting Nazareth in Isreal. I've read you can apply for a 2nd passport to counteract the problem of an Isreal stamp. So how do I explain this when applying for a 2nd passport when my only options are to renew - and the old one is sent back or apply for a lost passport?
Also, if the Isrealies stamp my visiting card, would I then be let back in to jordan?

What is your problem? You can travel to Jordan and Israel, there are no restrictions about this, the border is open and everyone can cross over, only if you plan in the future to travel to the countries that do not support the peace they might not let you in.

As the other poster said, there is no problem with an Israeli stamp if you are just visiting Jordan & Israel.
If you are planning on visiting other Arab countries later and need to avoid the stamp, there are a few things to be aware of :

1) You need to cross at Allenby bridge crossing both ways. If you cross anywhere else, you will get stamped in & out of Jordan, which is just as bad as an Israeli stamp.
2) You need to return to Jordan within the validity of your orginal Jordanian visa (usually one month). If you try to return later you'll have to buy a new visa, again a dead give-away.
3) Secondary passports are usually issued on the basis that you cannot travel both to Israel & some Arab countries. If your country issues them, that reason should suffice to get one. Don't claim to have lost your original one, your old one will get canceled in the computer system, making it illegal to use.
4) Israeli border police will be aware that the passport you are using is a secondary one (as it has no Jordanian stamps) and may ask to see your original one. If they are in a bad mood they may stamp that one as well. I.e. there is really no point in applying for a secondary passport if you are just travelling to IL/JO. Either you can get through without stamps or you can't.
5) If you absolutely have to travel to Syria after Jordan, you shouldn't risk a visit to Israel. The risk of getting stamped is too great. Only take the risk if you have the option of bypassing Syria (et al) later on.

George

There is no information in your profile that would allow us to guess your nationality so we cannot know what rules your country has on issuing second passports, but since you don't need one to visit Israel and Jordan on the same trip, the issue doesn't arise: it would do if you needed subsequently to travel to a country that doesn't accept passports with Israeli stamps (or even, in some cases, those with exit stamps showing that you left another country, like Jordan, when you could only have been going to Israel), and in that case, you would have to explain the reason for needing a second passport to your country's authorities.
The Israelis almost certainly will stamp your passport, although even if they didn't this doesn't leave you in the clear for those countries that wouldn't then allow you in. Fortunately this doesn't include Jordan.