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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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