Travel

Yisrael Beiteinu Threatens to Veto Budget over VAT

Yisrael Beiteinu is threatening to vote against the national budget over a proposed tourism tax. Misezhnikov: Tax would cost NIS 2.4 billion.

The Minister of Tourism is meeting with Russian officials to capitalize on the enormous Russian tourist potential.

A revolution is brewing at Hebrew University – for the first time in several years a distinctly pro-Israel student union has come to power.

At least 24 Iranians were shot and others wounded Monday by forces loyal to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to non-Iranian sources.

One of the handful of government authorized ascents to the tombs of Yehoshua and Calev (Joshua and Caleb) took place last week.

More than 100 people have been diagnosed with swine flu in Israel since April – 23 new cases on Sunday alone. A new flu vaccine is ready for tests.

The World Health Organization has officially declared the worldwide outbreak of the H1N1 virus, “swine flu,” to be a pandemic.

Egyptian officials are following Israel's lead and now screen incoming travelers for symptoms of the swine flu as they disembark at Cairo Airport.

The State of Israel is going all-out in honor of the upcoming visit of the Pope – including a video that endorses Christianity.

Nearly two hundred men, women and children managed to reach the top of Masada in time to bless the rising sun on the morning of the Passover seder.

The Shomron Development Company’s director, Chaim Ben-Shushan, plans to attract tourists to Samaria by opening bread-and-breakfast lodges.

The findings at Herodion include a theater with a VIP room, coffins of Herod’s family wife and the wife of Archelaus, Herod’s son.

Based on analysis of statistics from the first nine months of 2008, officials say Israel can expect to reach an eight-year tourism record.

What better place for a daytrip than Utopia itself? Israel's Utopia Park is located in Kibbutz Bachan near Netanya.