Ramadan tours promote coexistence between Israeli Arabs and Jews
Jewish Journal
July 14, 2015
The group of Jewish-Israelis sat in a semicircle on the thick, red carpet of the mosque.
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Israel’s tourism industry still hurting from last summer’s conflict
Jewish Journal
July 7, 2015
Number of visitors has come back up, but not enough.
The best is yet to come in evolving Israeli tourism
Ryan E. Smith
March 4, 2015
Following a record year for tourism in 2013 — when 3.5 million visitors came to the Holy Land — things got off to an even better start in 2014.
Israeli tourists evacuated from Maldives
Jewish Journal
July 31, 2014
Israeli tourists in the Maldives had to be evacuated from the island nation after an Israeli surfer removed an anti-Israel sign placed outside a guest house.
Tourism to Israel reaches all-time high
Jewish Journal
January 9, 2014
Israel reported an all-time high in annual visitors in 2013.
Haifa a many-faceted jewel
Elyse Glickman
October 31, 2012
Visiting Americans often compare Haifa with San Francisco for its hilly landscape and trendy, artsy neighborhoods, or Boston for its mix of academia and maritime culture.
Ancient Shiloh: A new stop on the tourist map?
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2012
Travis Allen was spending three weeks in 2009 driving around Israel visiting historic sites when he suddenly noticed Shiloh on the map and asked his driver if they could go to the site of the archaeological dig. What Allen, a financial advisor from California who’s making his first run for public office, remembers vividly is what was not there. People.
In Bulgaria, Israel’s tourism minister vows to continue tourism ties
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2012
Israeli Minister of Tourism Stas Misezhnikov traveled to Bulgaria to shore up the relationship between the two countries in the wake of the deadly attack on a bus full of Israeli tourists.
Wave of Chinese tourists expected
Jewish Journal
May 31, 2012
Over 100 million Chinese tourists are expected to be traveling annually by 2020 and one of their preferred destinations is turning out to be the Middle East.
Party planning in the Holy Land is just a mouse click away
Francesca Lunzer Kritz
September 28, 2007
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