Trips for federal judges to Israel cost approximately $30,000 each.
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REAL AF with Andy FrisellaOct 28, 2026
No source gives a per-trip cost for federal judges' Israel trips, so the $30,000 figure can be neither confirmed nor refuted.
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… We've taken one trip after another. 10% of all the active federal judges in America have gone just in the last three years. Stop. So what you're saying is that 10% of the federal judges have accepted a bribe trip to Israel? That's right. Okay, because these trips cost roughly about 30 grand a piece. Okay, 10% of the federal judges have now accepted bribes in favor of Israel. Okay, keep going. And then we'd come back, and I started getting calls from these state Supreme Court justices. Have you heard of these people? …
REAL AF with Andy Frisella · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. The Sherafy analysis states that the public cannot reliably calculate the total cost of the judges' Israel programs and that financial disclosures generally do not require the dollar amount of reimbursed trips.[4]
Context. A 2013 Reuters report, based on LegiStorm data, estimated that Israel trips for congressional members cost about $10,000 per member. This concerns Congress, not federal judges.[1]
Context. A House ethics public disclosure for an Israel trip lists hotel rates and expenses totaling roughly $12,000 for one traveler, but the source does not identify the traveler as a federal judge and does not give a per-trip cost for judges.[2]
Context. The April 2026 law school article confirms a 14-judge federal judicial delegation visited Israel in March 2024, but gives no costs.[3]
Sources
4 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 primary, 1 not rated
- 1U.S. lawmakers travel the world on lobbyists' tabreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2committee on ethics - Public Disclosuredisclosures-clerk.house.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3U.S. Federal Judges Shared Insights from Legal Delegation to Israellaw.edu · primary source · cited for: context
- 4Why Are U.S. Judges Going to Israel? Funding and Ethicssherafy.com · not rated · cited for: context
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