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Thousands of people stand in line at Ben Gurion Airport's departure terminal on August 13, 2015, a day when 79,800 passengers passed through on 457 flights. (Flash90)
May 2, 2018, 7:24 pm
Two air force bases under consideration as Israel’s third international airport
Transport Minister Israel Katz says Ramat David in north and Nevatim in south are back on agenda for repurposing, amid tourism boom
By Sue Surkes
Israeli sunset. (Courtesy, Sara Krengel)
May 2, 2018, 3:07 pm
PHOTO ESSAY: This exceedingly good land
70 unaltered photographs of Israel -- its landscapes, creatures, people, and milestones
By Sara Krengel
A bird's-eye view of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
April 8, 2018, 4:03 pm
Latin American airline to kick off direct flights to Israel
Latam plans to begin offering 11-hour Sao Paulo-Tel Aviv route in December; will receive large grants from Israel's Tourism Ministry
By JTA
Be'er Tuvia flowers. (Courtesy, Deborah Dickson)
April 1, 2018, 10:35 am
Go forth and do stuff in Israel this Passover
From the beach to the zoo to the police museum to the Tower of David and a large wooden rocking horse
By Deborah Dickson
American singer and film star Elvis Presley, circa 1975 (Keystone/Getty Images)
February 11, 2018, 2:42 pm
40 years of Elvis in the Judean Hills
What a little diner paying tribute to the King says about Israel's place in the global arena
By Bill Slott
Jerry Seinfeld at the Caliber 3 anti-terror training camp outside of Efrat. (Facebook)
January 11, 2018, 3:07 pm
Seinfeld under fire over visit to West Bank ‘military camp’
The Caliber 3 training facility takes down pics of the famous comedian snapped during a family visit
By Yaakov Schwartz
IDF logo. (Israel Defense Forces website)
January 2, 2018, 2:25 pm
The postman didn’t ring once
I tried to send my pen-pal an Israeli souvenir, but Spanish politics stole my mail
By Daniella Levy
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second left, and Tourism Minister Yariv Levin, right, seen with Israel's 3,000,000th visitor this year, Ioana Isac, second right, and her partner, Mihai Georgescu from Romania, at the Tower of David Museum in the Old City of Jerusalem, November 7, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
November 7, 2017, 7:16 pm
Historic visitor number 3 million gets private Jerusalem tour from Netanyahu
PM celebrates record number of tourists to Israel by showing Romanian holiday-maker around the Tower of David Museum
By Stuart Winer
October 19, 2017, 3:54 pm
Midianites, Jews and other idolators
The Temple of Hat’hor in Timna is a reminder of a shared quest, then and now, to connect with the Creator
By Bill Slott
The rooftop infinity pool at Isrotel's newest hotel, The Orient, in Jerusalem (Courtesy Ori Akerman)
October 7, 2017, 12:04 pm
Jerusalem’s newest luxury hotel opens with a touch of the ‘Orient’
The Isrotel group's latest 243-room retreat in the capital's historic Germany Colony preserves the old with upscale accommodations
By Jessica Steinberg
Kathie Lee Gifford at the 2016 Greenwich International Film Festival in Greenwich, Connecticut, June 10, 2016. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for GIFF)
September 26, 2017, 3:34 am
Kathie Lee Gifford wrote a book about Israel
'Today' co-host chronicles her past four rabbinical study trips to the Holy Land in 'The Rock, The Road, and the Rabbi'
By Gabe Friedman
Foreign tourists train with a wooden gun as they participate in a two hour anti-terror course at the Caliber 3 shooting range, near the West Bank settlement of Efrat on July 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
August 17, 2017, 2:03 am
Israeli company offers ‘anti-terrorism’ adventure to tourists
In settlement of Efrat, foreigners are taught to fire weapons, tackle assailants to help them understand Israel's counter-terrorism challenge
By Michael Blum
Actor Jonathan Lipnicki at the Western Wall during his Birthright trip on July 28, 2017. (courtesy Jonathan Lipnicki)
August 7, 2017, 9:01 pm
Jerry Maguire scene-stealer, all grown up, has Israel at ‘Shalom’
Jonathan Lipnicki, best known for playing the cute kid in the 90s rom-com, spends 10 days in Israel as Birthright's 600,000th participant
By Melanie Lidman
A screenshot from the new 'Hallelujah' nighttime attraction at the City of David in Jerusalem. (courtesy AVS)
June 30, 2017, 8:59 pm
Futuristic tech dramatically illuminates the City of David’s past
A massively popular Jerusalem tourist site has a new nighttime draw -- a 'video mapping' audiovisual experience launching July 16
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
June 16, 2017, 2:48 pm
#Israelisawesome: My campaign
7 days of praise for Israel, in the hopes of removing the sting from the bad report of this week's parsha's spies
By Aliza Lipkin
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