"A democracy should not cage its citizens for the sake of potential threats. One may expect such laws in countries like Iran, Egypt, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia, but not from a country that proudly proclaims it is the only democracy in the Middle East."

These countries don't allow their journalists to come to Israel for political and not for security reasons.

The situations are not comparable.

Here is a salient difference the journalist and others in Israel who were not allowed to travel to countries at war with Israel can complain about it openly in the Israeli press. There have been many articles about it published in Haaretz and other Israeli papers.

The Arab journalists who can't travel to Israel are not allowed to write about it in their press.  

No, Le Roi Ben Yehuda, the two situations are not comparable.