Tag: Israel Tourism
A land where the Bible serves as a tour guide’s GPS
When you visit Nachal Prat, you can almost feel what it was like to be a seventh-century Israelite leading your donkey, its saddle bags full of water, to Jerusalem.
Nachal Prat, often referred to as...
Record number of tourists entered Israel in 2018
Incoming tourism reached an all-time high in 2018, the Central Bureau of Statistics said in a new report on Thursday.
Some 4.1 million tourists visited Israel last year, marking a 14 percent increase compared to...
Step into history with first mobile virtual-reality walking tour in Jerusalem
One of the challenges, when walking through Jerusalem, is to picture what the city looked like through different periods of history. Now, for the first time, visitors can “step into history” with the aid...
Druze tourism in Israel
The Druze are a proud and ancient people and one of Israel's main minority communities. The Druze communities share with tourists from Israel and the rest of the world their ancient traditions and way...
Modi”s Israel visit boosts tourist arrivals from India, Madah
A senior official of Israel tourism has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Israel this year has given a boost to its tourism sector with the arrival of Indian tourists to Israel recording...
American Jewish converts ‘hurt’ and ‘humiliated’ by conversion bill
Growing up in the panhandle of West Virginia, Jen Halpern, born Jennifer Davis, had never met a Jew. She had been raised in what she calls a “typical American Christian household.” Yet at 22...