Tourism Ministry

Becoming Israel’s Tuscany: Gov’t launches ‘Biblical Trail’ initiative to promote West Bank tourism

The NIS 3.2 million tourism project will include an accessible promenade and suspension bridge connecting the Eilon Moreh Heritage Center with the summit of the Mount Kabir Nature Reserve.

Israeli officials lay cornerstone of the new "Joshua Trail," the first in its "Biblical Trails" initative, near Elon Moreh, September 24, 2026.
Blue and white trail marker painted on a stone shows the direction of travel along a hiking trail.

Israeli Tourism Month returns with nationwide activities

The market in the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. August 24, 2026.

Jewish, Muslim, Christian Jerusalem Old City vendors say reduced tourism is harming businesses

Airport staff walks through the empty arrivals hall at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on June 13, 2025, after Israel closed its air space to takeoff and landing.PremiumPremium

A land with no tourists: Israel's summer season on ice again as tourism struggles to recover


Tourism Ministry to create plan to prevent rape, increase safety at hotels

The ministry will also publish an annual list of hotels that have met the program's standards.

Israelis take part in a demonstration in support of the 16-year-old victim of a gang rape in Eilat, Tel Aviv. August 22, 2020

Unemployed tour guides offered new positions in schools

The move comes as a blessing as many schools are struggling to make the necessary accommodations to enable students to learn in accordance with the new coroanvirus restrictions.

The Tourism Ministry offices in Jerusalem. A subsidiary of the ministry is scheduled to move to Tel Aviv.

Israeli tour guides are hit hard by corona

Israel has 25,000 small tourism businesses with between one and 10 employees, including tour guides. Now, they don't have any business.

Shulie Mishkin in northern Israel

Welcome to beautiful Elbatouf!

Despite the tremendous historic and religious significance of this site, and the touristic potential, the area had been largely neglected by both the central governments

The Rumat El Heib agricultural fields

Israel boasts an eight percent annual increase in tourism for January

Almost 270,000 tourists came into the country via international flights, also about 8% more than last January and almost 18% more than two years ago.

A general view of Tel Aviv's skyline is seen through a hotel window in Tel Aviv, Israel May 15, 2017. Picture taken May 15, 2017

Record 4.5 million tourists visited Israel in 2019

"It took us 30 years, from 1948, to reach the millionth tourist. Another 16 years in 1994 to reach second millionth tourist."

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Israel welcomes record-breaking 4.55 million tourists in 2019

The leading source countries for incoming tourism between January and November 2019 were the United States, followed by France, Russia, Germany and Britain.

Tourists look at the Dome of the Rock, located in Jerusalem's Old City on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, June 21, 2018.

Shortage of affordable hotels could hamper Israeli tourism boom

Foreign investors rush to enter market heating up in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Dead Sea

The Dan hotel in Eilat

MEININGER group secures Tel Aviv location for hybrid hotel

A mix of traditional double rooms and dormitory beds will be on offer to guests

A landscape view from the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality building

Study: Hotels in Israel enjoying record demand, increased revenues

More than 4.1 million tourists visited Israel in 2018, an increase of 14% from 2017 and 42% from 2016, according to the Ministry of Tourism.

A general view of the pool at the Royal Beach Hotel in Eilat