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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

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Illustrative: Colorful trees stand around a church at the Dolomites mountains in St. Maddalena, St. Magdalena, in Val di Funes (Villnoess) as the sun sets, in northern Italian province of South Tyrol, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
November 15, 2024, 6:49 pm
Italian hotel rejects Israeli couple’s reservation, accusing them of ‘genocide’
Booking.com removes hotel in the Dolomites from website as Italian Jewish community and local authorities decry antisemitic stance
By AP and ToI Staff
A Booking.com search for the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim shows a new travel advisory banner (Screenshot)
October 1, 2022, 7:32 pm
Booking.com introduces travel warnings for Israeli, Palestinian West Bank properties
Company adds small text advisory on search results denoting ‘conflict-affected area’; Israel says it dissuaded company from using harsher wording
By ToI Staff and AP
View of a newly built water pools in the Jewish settlement of Nokdim, in the West Bank, on October 20, 2021 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
September 22, 2022, 11:29 am
Israel vows ‘diplomatic war’ over Booking.com safety warnings on West Bank listings
Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov disputes travel site’s explanation that planned alerts are needed because area has become unsafe, says move is ‘political’
By Andrew Lapin
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers stand guard at the entrance to the Efrat settlement in the central West Bank on March 29, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
September 19, 2022, 11:05 pm
Booking.com to warn customers that staying in settlements ‘may pose greater risks’
Online travel agency says it’s still working on alert’s wording, but that it will resemble ones currently shown for homes in Ukraine and Cyprus; tourism minister blasts decision
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Traffic moves along the multi-lane highway in Moscow, with the modern city skyscrapers illuminating the skyline in Moscow, Russia, on July 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
March 5, 2022, 6:21 pm
Airbnb, Booking.com halt operations in Russia over Ukraine invasion
Both firms also freeze business in neighboring Belarus, as they become latest Western companies to pull out of Russia over war
By Agencies
An Etihad Airways plane carrying a delegation from the United Arab Emirates on a first official visit lands at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)
November 30, 2020, 11:34 am
UAE’s Etihad Airways joins new Israeli program to foster travel tech
$3 million accelerator called OnBoard is partnered by Booking.com and Amadeus, Arieli Capital says; tech is key to getting industry back on track, notes Arieli’s innovation chief
By Shoshanna Solomon
A picture of the Royal Jaffa Hotel as advertised online. (booking.com)
June 24, 2019, 1:18 pm
UK tourists horrified when luxury Jaffa hotel turns out to be abandoned building
British mother and daughter say the 4-star, beachfront accommodation advertised on Booking.com looked more like a rundown construction site
By ToI Staff
Gilad Erdan speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv in 2018. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
January 30, 2019, 7:24 pm
Minister threatens to ban Amnesty over settlement tourism report
Gilad Erdan asks Strategic Affairs Ministry to look into barring rights group that called on Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, TripAdvisor to stop listing accommodations in settlements
By AFP and ToI Staff
The home of Lewis Weinger in the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, which has been rented out using Airbnb. (Meni Lavi)
January 30, 2019, 3:24 am
Amnesty calls on web giants Airbnb, TripAdvisor to boycott West Bank settlements
NGO also singles out Expedia and Booking.com, saying they are benefiting from ‘war crimes’; Israel slams ‘anti-Semitic’ BDS campaign
By ToI Staff and AFP
Illustrative photo of a West Bank settlement, December 17, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 20, 2018, 10:34 pm
Booking.com signals it won’t remove settlement rental listings
Human Rights Watch called on company to follow Airbnb in banning vacation homes in the West Bank
By AFP
Inbal Zeev walks, on January 17, 2016, by her guest house advertised on Airbnb in the Nofei Prat settlement in the West Bank. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
November 20, 2018, 4:59 pm
After Airbnb, watchdog calls for Booking.com to remove settlement listings
Human Rights Watch says properties in West Bank can be rented by Israelis and foreigners but not by Palestinians, meaning hosts discriminate based on national or ethnic origin
By AFP
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July 31, 2018, 10:26 pm
Booking.com flagged for labeling Jerusalem an ‘Israeli settlement’
Online travel reservation site amends listing following query from Belgian Jewish paper, but refuses to comment
By JTA
An illustrative image of the online travel reservation website Booking.com. (YouTube screenshot)
October 23, 2017, 3:11 pm
Booking.com to open innovation center in Tel Aviv
CEO Gillian Tans says in LinkedIn post that the city is ‘one of the most tech-forward markets in the world’
By Shoshanna Solomon
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