Tag: Israeli Tourism
Digital pre-approval for tourists to Israel pushed back to 2025
A new digital entry procedure for visitors to Israel from visa-exempt countries is being postponed until next year, officials announced on Sunday.
The Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA-IL) requirement, which is undergoing a pilot test and was due to...
Delta to resume Israel flights in June
Delta Airlines announced on Wednesday that it will resume daily flights to Tel Aviv from New York in June.
The announcement comes one week after rival United Airlines became the first American carrier to renew service to...
Victim touring vs. victory touring
Jewish “mission tours” have been selling out. Itineraries are focused on the devastation that Hamas terrorists wrought in the Gaza Envelope on Oct. 7. Tours are showcasing the destruction of southern Israeli kibbutzim and...
United resuming flights to Israel on March 6
United Airlines plans to resume direct flights to Israel from the United States next month, becoming the first American carrier to renew service since the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
Wednesday’s...
‘I suggest you all do it’: Tiffany Haddish urges visiting Israel
In an Instagram Live video she shot after boarding a plane to Israel on Tuesday, actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish described the purpose of her trip, calling it “educational.”
“I need to go see for myself, I’m one of those people,”...
My powerful visit to the town of Eli
In February 2022, an old friend named David Ha’ivri told me that he was coming to Miami to raise funds for the Jewish community of Eli in the Binyamin region of Judea and Samaria....
If Israel can’t bring it to social media, bring the social media to Israel
With the realization that the social-media pen is mighty like the sword, the nonprofit organization Yalla Israel focuses on sending social-media influencers to Israel to experience the Jewish state firsthand and, it hopes, to portray Israel...
Birthright trips to restart in early January, with new focus on impact of Oct....
After it resumes its free, 10-day educational trips to Israel in the first week in January, Birthright Israel expects 350 people—roughly 80% of them from the United States—to visit the Jewish by the end...
Arkia to launch direct flights between Israel and Sri Lanka in October
The Israeli airline Arkia announced that it will launch direct flights from Israel to Sri Lanka beginning on Oct. 31.
Waruna Wilpatha, a former Sri Lankan ambassador to Israel, told JNS that he is pleased...
US tops list of tourists to Israel
Some 2.25 million foreign tourists entered Israel in the first seven months of the year, with the largest group coming from the U.S., figures the Central Bureau of Statistics released on Sunday show.
The total...